We need to be attentive of things in our soul; to lend an ear and pick up what is done and told around us and in us. And when […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
How the Holy Spirit enters the soul?
The Holy Spirit comes when we are receptive. It does not rush. It approaches us with such discernment that we probably don’t even realize it. Let us investigate to […]
Εlder Efraim of Arizona : On Passions
The thing that should preoccupy us above all is how to cleanse our heart from the passions and how to abate some passion or vice! The visitations of […]
Your Cross
Before giving you the cross that you carry, God measured your courage. Then He blessed your cross and placed it on your shoulders. Hold on tight to your cross […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona : Τhe visit of affliction
When we have a beautiful piece of furniture and leave it unattended to for a period of time, we see that a layer of fine dust settles upon it. […]
Εlder Efraim of Arizona : Τhe divine medicine
Just as it happens with indifference, so it happens also with every other illness of the soul. Pain is the divine medicine which the infinite wisdom of God devised […]
Spiritual messages
What hinders the Holy Spirit If the Holy Spirit is called and is “Peace of the Soul” then certainly nothing else hinders Its presence in us like anger. St. […]
The last instructions of Abba Benjamin
Abba Benjamin of the Desert Fathers was dying and with his last breath said to his spiritual children: “Do what I tell you and you will be with God: […]
Spiritual forcefulness
Constant forcefulness is necessary for us not to remain outside the bridal chamber of Christ, as did the foolish virgins. Rather, our spiritual forcefulness should continuously light our lamps, […]
Spiritual messages
Tell us something Tell us something, Elder. – What shall I say? – Whatever is in your heart. – What my heart says is to take the knife, cut […]
