Εlder Efraim of Arizona. Do not speak unnecessary words
Do not speak unnecessary words, my child, for they chill your soul’s divine zeal. Love silence, which gives birth to all virtues and fences in the soul so […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
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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 an elder […]
We’ re hoping for the grace of God
Commonly, man takes a posture such that his passions are protected, his weaknesses, his specific sins: as if he has a friendship with all of them, as if he […]
Εlder Efraim of Arizona. The healthy soul
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 its thoughts; […]
Care for the other
To have contact with Christ, He must rest with your whole life. And Christ rests when you rest your neighbor, in the good sense. That’s why I emphasize […]
The most important thing is for you to humble yourself
Even when one who is dedicated to God appears to have an inclination to pray, to display love towards Christ, to surrender entirely to God from the depth […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona-illness
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. If […]
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 want […]
The joy of God
Everybody looks for joy. That is what man seeks, whatever he is doing. Why? Because that is how man is built, to rejoice. And he is made to […]
The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul as Pillars of the Church
Where the Cherubim sing the glory, where the Seraphim are flying, there shall we see Paul, with Peter, and as a chief and leader of the choir of the […]