Can I be a little bit with the “world” and a little bit with Christ? I am sorry my spiritual child but this cannot be done. You have to be […]
Category: Spiritual Life
We have to rely upon God’s love
Each and every one of us should do serious work in themselves to find out where they make conces- sions, what they succumb to, to what extent they are […]
Patience! Patience! Patience!
Patience! Patience! Patience! Below is an amateur translation I did. It’s an excerpt from Words from the heart (pp. 246-250), a collection of homilies by Abbess Makrina of the Holy […]
2nd Sunday of the Fast (St. Gregory Palamas)
(Mark. 2, 1-12) That our heart be supported by Christ Man often uses his logic to think negatively –just like the Scribes and the Pharisees do– in a […]
Τhe Sunday of Orthodoxy
(John. 1, 44-52) Orthodoxy is: “Come and see” “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asks. And Philip replies: “Come and see”. Though Nazareth is an […]
The Sunday of the Prodigal Son
A young man called his Spiritual Father on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. The Elder responded on the phone: “Many Years my child.” “Elder, is not my name […]
15th Sunday of Luke, Zacchaeus Sunday
(Luke 19, 1-10) Let us throw off the “riches” of our passions Many people follow Christ, but remain in situations which prevent them from passing certain […]
12th Sunday of Luke The Ten Lepers
(Luke. 17, 12-19) The Lord is beneficial to all Can anyone say that he doesn’t suffer? That he doesn’t feel pain in this world? Which human being doesn’t feel […]
Sunday after Christmas
This is where all good things have come from … It never crossed the Holy Mother’s mind that she would become the Mother of God. When she was called […]
Christ became human out of love
The incarnation of the Son and Word of God was not a consequence of the fall of man, but the original (unconditional) purpose of man’s creation, because in this way man was meant to and could reach deification. Indeed, Adam’s fall could not “force” God to become human, meaning Christ could not eternally assume human nature because […]