Uprooted and withered
The fear of God is the beginning of all things. Out of fear comes devotion. Out of devotion comes renunciation and out of renunciation comes humility. From humility […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
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Elder Efraim of Arizona. When you are in pain
When you are in pain, gather the powers of your soul and try to understand what heaven is trying to tell you in this trial of yours. […]
The trick to find the way of Life
An Elder said that there was a farmer who was very rich and wanted to teach his children agriculture. So, he said: ;My children, you know very well that […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. We forget Him!
Man suffers because of his sins. However, the goodness of God counts the pain as spiritual work, and He gives wages and a reward. How can we not love […]
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 […]
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 […]