How the Holy Spirit enters the soul?
The Holy Spirit comes when we are receptive. It does not rush. It approaches us with such discernment that we probably don’t even realize it. Let us investigate to […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
Posts by Helen Kotsaridou
Εlder Efraim of Arizona : On Passions
The thing that should preoccupy us above all is how to cleanse our heart from the passions and how to abate some passion or vice! The visitations of […]
How does someone beat the devil?
God showed His love in a concrete way, through His act of dying on the Cross –which surely was a divine act, but which He experienced as a human […]
Your Cross
Before giving you the cross that you carry, God measured your courage. Then He blessed your cross and placed it on your shoulders. Hold on tight to your cross […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona : Τhe visit of affliction
When we have a beautiful piece of furniture and leave it unattended to for a period of time, we see that a layer of fine dust settles upon it. […]
The wrong attitude before God
We should remember every day that things are simple and easy. The reason we suffer and make no spiritual progress is that we take the wrong at titude before […]
The nativity of Theotokos
Anna, the mother of Virgin Mary, was infertile. Yet, she waited in hope. Let us pray to God and the saints to illuminate us to realize what waiting, wait- […]
Εlder Efraim of Arizona : Τhe divine medicine
Just as it happens with indifference, so it happens also with every other illness of the soul. Pain is the divine medicine which the infinite wisdom of God devised […]
Would you like to make a new start?
Would you like to make a new start? Start with repentance. Many “good” Christians have a hard time fighting this or the other spiritual battle, yet, the real issue […]
Spiritual messages
What hinders the Holy Spirit If the Holy Spirit is called and is “Peace of the Soul” then certainly nothing else hinders Its presence in us like anger. St. […]