Every night, review how you passed the day, and in the morning review how the night passed, so that you know how your soul’s accounts are doing. If […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
We should be careful with your friends
One day, two friends were going for a walk. One was wearing a suit and was clean. The other one was wearing old clothes and was dirty. At some point, […]
Through Time to Eternity – Elder Efraim of Arizona
Raise your mind to the dread judgment seat of Christ —what defense shall we give on the day of judgment when our deeds are judged? How frightening is the hour […]
Holy counsels
Take away from me sloth Always prefer to study and being at a state of eagerness making haste, because then the difficult seem easy. Never prefer to be indolent […]
Attachement to earthly things make us foreign to heavenly things
Living in a society which emphasises materials and wealth, we sometimes become so attached to our belongings that we go to great lengths to keep them to ourselves. However, […]
How can I be saved?
Someone asked St. Paisios the Hagiorate: – Elder, how can I be saved? – Hold on to the dress of the Theotokos with absolute confidence exactly like the one […]
Small sins
St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain in his book Spiritual Exercises develops many arguments about how much damage is caused by the so-called light or small sins. Unfortunately many people, […]
Holy sayings
This is where the king is To escape from a foreign land and find our true home, where we can connect directly with God, we need to enter […]
Training obedience
Abba Agathon loved very much Abba Alexander, because he was very ascetic, humble, extremely gentle and of mild nature. One day all his disciples where working next to the river […]
Holy sayings
Receiving from God When someone receives inside something from God, then the heart feels happy. When on the contrary receives something from the enemy, then the heart feels confused and […]