Heal first yourself and then ask for the others
Today many children are suffering because of the unfaithfulness and hard-heartedness of their parents. I remember in Athens there was a husband and wife who once invited […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
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To set us free
All the emptiness, poverty, suffering, anguish, death, which the Lord received for us, culminate in the Cross. On the Cross He experienced the deepest pain, and the greatest humiliation […]
They darken the mind
It is selfishness and ego that prevents man from loving God and loving his brother. The Christian struggles to root out selfishness, to root out the passions […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. About Illness
The afflictions felt in illnesses are sent by the holy hand of our good God. The most effective medicine for spiritual health is bodily illness. Illnesses are […]
How to Overcome Inactivity
When Saint Antony the Great was in the desert, he once fell into inactivity and dormancy and great confusion of his thoughts and said to God Lord, I […]
Our Saints are always with us
We had gone on a pilgrimage to Saint Patapios (his memory is commemorated on December 8) in the monastery at Loutraki where his incorruptible body is kept, with […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona-Love, Humility and Others
I pray your soul is in good health, for when it is healthy, it has patience in afflictions, it has self-denial with the body and in […]
You get some of the fragnance
Said an elder: "He who enters the shop where they sell perfumes, even if he buys nothing, he certainly gets some of the fragrance in him. Similarly, he […]
It is against us in everything
Anyone want to stay awake? The devil hinders with slothfulness and indolence and so opposes us in everything, in every good thing with which we are occupied. That […]
A little Easter
During the Sunday Eucharist we celebrate a little Easter, that is, our passage from death to life, from the land of the dead to the land of […]