Elder Efraim of Arizona-Illness
My child, although much of your illness is due to disobedience, the love of God is evident in you. God loves you very much, which is why He chastens […]
My child, although much of your illness is due to disobedience, the love of God is evident in you. God loves you very much, which is why He chastens […]
Monasticism played a decisive part in the religious life of Byzantium, as it has done in that of all Orthodox countries. It has been rightly said that ‘the best […]
Every man on the Day of Judgment will take on a “characteristic form”, a particular form with specific characteristics, which will be proportional to “the qualities of evil or […]
May your prayers support the crumbling house of my wretched soul. There is nothing good in me. That is why I weep, calling to mind the things that will […]
The righteous Joachim and Anna were childless for fifty years of their married life. In their old age the Archangel Gabriel appeared to each one of them separately, telling […]
The one who is a lover of self, according to the Holy Fathers, can be neither a friend of God nor a friend of humans. He may pretend that […]
As an acropolis surrounded by impregnable walls mocks those who besiege it, so the soul, if it surrounds itself with all the virtues like towers in a divine […]
Since we already know very well that the hunter of our souls has set and laid traps everywhere, let us not be drowsy. Whether at a store or in […]
Saint Catherine possessed all human gifts, all of them, indeed. Richness, wisdom and beauty, too. However, she sacrificed all her gifts as if they were nothing, in order […]
One day two friends were going for a walk. One had a suit and was clean. The other was wearing old clothes and was dirty. At some point […]