Elder Efraim of Arizona. The devil deceives us
The devil deceives us, and we forget that we ought to compel ourselves, for the days are passing, and we are gradually approaching death to our inconsolable regret. Compel […]
The devil deceives us, and we forget that we ought to compel ourselves, for the days are passing, and we are gradually approaching death to our inconsolable regret. Compel […]
The “prisoners” referred to by saint John Clima cus said: “My God, if we need to go insane in order to be saved, then let us go insane”. They […]
The prophet Jeremiah lived and acted in biblical Israel, specifically in the kingdom of Judah from the 7th to the 6th century BC. He came from a priestly […]
Illness The truth is that the illnesses, afflictions, and tribulations of Christians bring about the cleansing of the their soul and the forgiveness of their sins. Every Christian has […]
To become a man of God man will have to work his fingers to the bone; he will have to bleed. Unless he bleeds inside, all the things that […]
The study of brief sayings, as, for example, of the Gerontikon, aims to help you overcome yourself everyday. By reading a short apothegm or a page perhaps, you try […]
I consider as a sincere rule of friendship, who that agrees with his friend without reserve, and neither offers his friendship with flattery, nor uses in secret his enemies, […]
At the celebrated Christian days, at such important feasts, to feel the fact, one must not work. On Great and Holy Friday for example, if you want to feel […]
Those who do not act like the Father, the Father, when they call him Father, does not listen to them. Approach Him, therefore, after you first give evidence that […]
God cannot work with a bored man, with a man bored with his life. God wants a zealot, a vigilant man,who would not hesitate to pull out all […]