Tongue as the enemy
Elder Sesoe once said with conviction, “Have courage. Here in the desert, I have thirty years that I no longer ask God for forgiveness from sin, but I […]
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The praying heart
Prayer is standing before the presence of God with your mind in your heart. If we cannot live without God, then we cannot live without prayer, because through […]
4th Sunday of Great Lent (of St. John Climacus)
O Souls, come into communion! Today we live in big cities and huge high-rises, and yet no one knows each other, no one has communion with […]
Enemy, but also opponent-All traps are destroyed
Why is the devil called not only an enemy, but also an opponent? He is called an enemy because he hates man, hates good, wants evil. He is […]
True Godly Love
If you hate some people; others you neither love nor hate; others you love, but very little, while others you love very much, know that because of the […]
The perfect priest
“No matter how hard you look for the kind, the perfect priest, the perfect community, the perfect parish…you won;t find it! Just like you won’;t find the perfect […]
How to drive away sinful thoughts
Saint Sygklitiki said, “As the deadly beasts are driven away by the most powerful poison, so prayer accompanied by fasting drives away sinful thoughts.” From the Gerontikon Translated […]
2nd Sunday of the Fast (St. Gregory Palamas)
(Mark. 2, 1-12) That our heart be supported by Christ Man often uses his logic to think negatively –just like the Scribes and the Pharisees do– in a […]
Neglecting our immortal soul
Many things that we shouldn’t expect or hope for, we constantly dream about and hope that they will happen. On the contrary, death, which will inevitably occur […]
A short prayer
I kiss you, Father and Creator! I am caressed by Your love. In every fruit of the earth, in every grain of wheat, in every crumb of bread, I […]