Enduring Trials
“Whatever you endure is a gold medal. To endure trials and tribulations gives you so much more than doing good deeds and you gain Paradise.” Elder Panais […]
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Sayings of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
“The time has now come for the prophecy of St. Anthony the Great to become reality: ‘A time will come when men will go mad. If someone is […]
Preparation is important for praying
“If while praying we don’t feel comfort, something is clearly going on: we must repent and correct it. Some people say that this happens because of the devil’s […]
Silence should be kept secretly and in your heart
“Silence should be kept secretly and in your heart. Make sure that is not obvious to others that you maintain silence. As soon as you have said two or […]
Turn the wheel
For everybody that lives in the world, do not despair when you are possessed by many passions, the weight of your sins is extremely heavy, and you feel you […]
Man is able to become holy without dark basements and repressed experiences
Before man sinned, he didn’t have dark basements and repressed experiences hidden deep within him. Roman Catholics, and even more so Protestants, hold that man was created by […]
Avoid the causes
“Avoid the causes, what triggers sin. For example, if you have diabetes and you are supposed not to eat sweets, how can you stop them if all […]
Fathers of church about fasting
Beware of limiting the good of fasting to mere abstinence from meats. Real fasting is alienation from evil. ‘Loose the bands of wickedness.’ For give your neighbour the mischief […]
On Fasting
The Nativity fast has begun and our Orthodox Church calls upon us to renew our spiritual struggle. So let us remind ourselves of the benefits of fasting. Fasting […]
Make good use of pain
How good it would have been if we did not let pain go to waste! One way or another we will suffer. But our whole torture and struggle […]