God is a fire
Jul
31
2016
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which…
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which…
Prayer in church is important. The best thoughts and feelings come in church; and yes, the enemy also…
The Church, through the church and Divine service, acts upon the entire man, educates him wholly; acts upon his…
Sin never appears as it really is, naked, abstract, because if it did, it wouldn’t deceive people’s minds so easily and make them give in. It always comes…
We must not ask God for charismatic gifts but for repentance. The one who seek repentance will find…
“Please do not remember my sins” was the prayer that Ilias Iliadis said during Olympic Games held in London in 2012. “Mother of God, please do not remember my sins, and help me to gain an Olympic medal; and if you help me, I promise that I will give to you”…
The Lord said: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me”. ( Matthew 25:40) A certain man in Constantinople was unusually merciful. Walking along the streets of the city, he would…
The άνάλαβος (Analab[v]os), which is the distinctive garment of a monk or a nun tonsured into the highest grade of Orthodox monasticism, the Great Schema, is adorned with…
The prayer is breath. When a person breathes, he is alive, and he attends to…
If you love true knowledge, devote yourself to the ascetic life; for mere theoretical knowledge puffs a man up. Unexpected trials are…
Prayer is grace. God gives it when there is zeal and humility. It depends…
It is God, Who is merciful and grants everyone what he needs, Who is blessing him when He gives him…
He who wants to cross the spiritual sea is long-suffering, humble, vigilant and…
The aim of God is to make man like Him. God’s purpose is to…
Some people living carelessly in the world have asked me: ‘We have wives and are beset with social cares, and how can we lead the solitary life?’ I replied to them:…
Don’t worry too much about how spiritually poor you are- God sees that, but for you it is expected to…
Divine Providence is one thing, Divine help is another, Divine protection is another, Divine mercy is another, and Divine consolation is another. Providence is…
A soul attached to the shepherd (his abbot or elder) with love and faith for Christ’s sake will not leave him even if it were at the price of his blood, and especially if he…
Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God?…
The Fathers state that the active life consists in two virtues of the most general kind: in fasting and obedience. And rightly, for the first destroys…
Many times it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. That’s why the humble ones…
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to the point where…
Numbers 16:46-50: “And Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay…
What I see around me would drive…
The Holy Fathers say that the most powerful prayer is “pure” prayer, that is, prayer that is unencumbered and undistracted by thoughts. The prayer that best lends itself to becoming pure prayer is…
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if…
A disciple once asked an elder: – Elder, is true humility to see yourself worse than everyone else?…
The name you scratch on the bark of a tree will…
The main purpose of the Divine Liturgy is the reception of communion by the faithful, even if only by those few who are prepared. Almost all the prayers read by the priest are for those who will receive the Holy Eucharist. That’s why at least one should receive holy communion at the Liturgy. Based on Saint Paisios the Athonite In this photo Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada is praying during the Great Entrance.
Once, a disciple replied to an Elder:…