When we are surrounded by sorrows, we must intensify our prayers, to attract more strongly the grace of God… Earthly pleasures lead to the great eternal sorrow. Saint […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
I trust in God, that He will have mercy on my lowliness
The older I grow, the more I perceive the instability, the vanity of earthly things. Oh, why do we trouble ourselves in vain? Our life is short—dust, ashes, a […]
Advices to fight the passion of polylogy or talking too much
Do not start a long conversation with the one who listens to you with a bad attitude, because you will make him feel very uncomfortable with you and will […]
Be careful with your thoughts to have a stronger prayer
We must always keep our minds calm so that the intellect can distinguish the thoughts that passthrough it and the good ones sent by God, store them in the treasuries of memory, while rejecting the bad and demonic ones. When the sea is calm, fishermen can see what is moving on […]
The Holy Communion
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 […]
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 […]