The elder favors children to fasting
“It was December of 1987,” remembers a young woman named Sophia.[1] “I was seven years old, and all my hair had fallen out. The doctors’ diagnoses varied. […]
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The Resurrection of Jairus daughter The healing of the bleeding woman
Sunday 9.11.2014 Z’ Luke There is still hope In both cases the Lord gives each person what they ask for, because they both ask in faith. But our faith in […]
Saint Nektarios as seen through his Letters
A Myrrh-streamer and a Wonderworker, but also a great theologian and writer. Saint Nektarios, the boast of the Orthodox faithful of our age, was honoured […]
The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
5th Sunday of Luke Luke 16: 19-31 … as though we’ve already journeyed to the other world and returned again. Each person in this world will […]
The parable of shower
4th Sunday of St. Luke In today’s Gospel reading, the Evangelist Luke presented the Parable of Sower. Our Lord Jesus Christ used examples from the daily life to express […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“The devil fell because of his pride. A dreadful thing! He was the chief Angel, and became an enemy of God, and of man. There is no one, […]
1st Sunday of St. Luke
(Luke 5:1-11) In today’s Gospel reading St. Peter with the rest of the holy Apostles were astonished at the catch of fish which they had caught. Christ our […]
Sunday after the Holy Cross
The renouncing of the self is the whole ascesis ofthespirituallife. In todays gospel reading, the Lord says:”Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny […]
The History of the Cross
Today, beloved brothers and sisters, we mark a great feast, a great celebration: it is the Exaltation of the Precious Cross. This feast carries us off to Golgotha […]
Regarding prayer – Elder Efraim of Arizona
Cry out the prayer without ceasing. May God grant you a blessed beginning! May it not abandon you, or rather, may you not abandon the prayer—the life of the soul, […]