But One Prayer is Needful
When I asked if he knew the words to the Akathist hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos – since it is common in Greece for many faithful and monastics […]
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Walking together with God
If whatever we go through, we take it the right way and see it as a blessing from God –because indeed it is a blessing– we will feel so […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“When someone is irritated, it is better not to speak to him at all, unless of course you have a very good reason. His irritation resembles a […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“When in prayer we don’t feel joy and comfort, as does a little child who runs to its mother’s embrace, then we have either hurt someone through our conduct […]
Sayings of St. Antony the Great
About love True love does not mean only to give, but also to be deprived and to feel sorry, when such deprivation and sorrow restrain another from going astray […]
How to confront grief?
Grief is coming (Extract from a morning sermon) There are people, who, when they are healthy and their wallets are full, their children are progressing and everything is pleasant, they […]
Before the new testament was the Divine liturgy.
We Orthodox live Christ within the Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy is a work of God. We say: […]
“Good” parents with … “bad” children
Parents, good parents, who are spiritual people, come to me to complain about their child, who has gone astray. And I say: “Look, you may consider yourselves good and […]
Apocalyptic times
Love toward Christ demands sacrifices. And truly the ancient Christians were subjected to sacrifices who, during the persecutions of the first three centuries suffered numerous severe trials, and, […]
On Afflictions, Pain, and Labors
May the love of our heavenly Father be with your souls, so that being invigorated by it you may bear the fruit of obedience to His life-giving commandments. […]