The secret is to seek union with Christ unselfishly, without saying ‘Give me this or that’. It’s enough to say...
For people to go to sweet Paradise, they have to eat a lot of things bitter here below, so that...
There are many ways of praying. They’re all good, if people don’t know how to pray with simplicity. But if...
The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured....
Struggle to warm up your heart and you’ll see how a warm heart reins in unruly thoughts. You have to...
We’re like nettles. From a distance, they look green, fresh, like a plain or a garden, but when you get...
It’s better for you to suffer evil than to become the cause of evil. The sorrow of someone who’s suffering...
The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.) organizes the second in a row photo contest and invites all interested parties to...
Don’t allow the seeds of doubt or disbelief to enter your soul. It will be bad for you, if at...
The saintliness of the parents saves the children. For this to happen, Divine Grace has to act upon the souls...
Strive to remain unflinchingly in a state of spiritual vigilance, patience and boldness, because only then will you sense the...
When you see somebody becoming rich through wrong-doing and then living prosperously, sigh and weep for them. Because this wealth...
ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH·DEMRE The Church of St. Nicholas is located in Kale (Demre) county on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast 140...
When you’re wounded because you’ve fallen into some sin or other through your weakness or, sometimes, to your harm, through...
Our moral us to take steps towards our salvation, because otherwise we’ll be lost. Formal recognition of our moral freedom...
The passions are hard material: the Ural Mountains, kilometers high! Grace is the sun. It rises, but the shadow of...
It’s not food or favourable living conditions that ensure our health. It’s a holy life, the life of Christ. I...
Sacrifice everything for Christ. For Christ, though, not for anything or anyone. » Venerable Païsios the Athonite Source: pemptousia.com
You can’t go to Church on Sunday because you’re working? You can make yourself an altar at that time by...
With a good word about your neighbor, in their defense, you buy Paradise. » Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos Source: pemptousia.com
