If you love to awaken in your heart the divine desire and to acquire love for Christ and with it all the other virtues, be frequent in […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
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. […]
How to pray
Prayer is a conversation with God. The soul of the true Christian wants to pray constantly. It begins with doxology and praise, moves on to supplication and petition. […]
Miracle of St. Vlasios
On 9 December 1943, the Nazis burned Kalavryta and killed 667 male inhabitants. They then headed east, conducting operations against the Greek guerrillas in the northern Peloponnese. Around […]
Friendship
He who, because of some temptation and trial, cannot overlook the defect of his friend, does not yet have holy apathy. There are many friends in the time […]
Let us say it to our Lord
A woman cries out for her husband that she does not go to church, one cries out, the other. Slow down my brother. Don’t make the other […]
The fly and the bee
Some people told me that they are scandalized because they see a lot of things wrong with the Church, and I told them: If you ask a fly: “Are […]
Pray for your sins
Pray to God to forgive your sins. And God, because you ask him in honesty and humility, will forgive your sins and will give you health in your […]
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, […]
For your brother
Do not consider your brother, who until yesterday was spiritual and virtuous, evil and wicked because of the hatred towards him which was created today by the influence […]