“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth”. At first glance, one might think that this refers to the blue sky above us and the ground beneath our feet. Moving on to the second verse, however,
Our heart should beat for the One who created it. That’s why do not say, after spending a long time in prayer, that nothing has been gained; for you have already gained something.
Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not
Orthodoxy as the true path to the heavenly Jerusalem does not guarantee that the path will be “ok”. It guarantees that,
How does one build the most influential Church news portal in Greece? More than anything, you must pray a lot, and you must struggle to
No one ever came to God because a Christian scolded them but by
I saw that there was no tragedy in God. Tragedy is to be found solely in
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
God always helps. He always comes in time, but
Always help someone; you might be the only one that does. Help today because you don’t
We usually say that Judas betrayed Christ. While it is true, this does not depict the entire life of our Lord on earth. In fact, the life of our Lord on earth was between betrayals: He was betrayed shortly after He was born and He was betrayed shortly before His death.
It was fitting that the Giver of all holiness should enter this world by a pure and holy birth. For He it is that of old formed Adam from the virgin earth,
God answers in three ways: He says “yes” and gives you what you want. He says “no” and
Only struggle a little more. Carry your cross without complaining. Don’t think you are anything special.
Sometimes chanting in moderation soothes the temper remarkably. But sometimes, if untimely and immoderate, it lends itself to the lure of pleasure. Let us then appoint definite times for this, and so make good use of it. Correctly used, nothing so arouses the soul, gives it wing, sets it
Words are instruments of this world, but
When you have love for things divine, you can
The person who loves the most is he who humbles himself the most. No one will ever attain the degree of humility of Christ or His Mother, hence
Saint John of Damascus says that the soul is intelligent and noetic. God gave man “an intelligent and noetic soul for proper breathing”. It is a basic
Lord Jesus Christ, help me so that today, for the whole day, I may cast myself aside, since who knows out of what petty reason I will
A certain wise man, when enumerating which blessings are the most important included a wife and husband who live in harmony (Sir. 25:1). In another place he emphasized this:
The man who has found love eats and drinks Christ every day and hour and so is made immortal. ‘Whoever eats of this bread’, He says, ‘which I will give him, will never taste death.’ Blessed is he who consumes the bread of love, which is Jesus! He who eats of love eats Christ, the God over all, as
Many times, God allows children to stay on the archibishop’s throne because the grace of theosis is not made known by lessons but through innocence and purity as that of a child. Brothers and sisters, stop thinking
Heresy: That “special” moment when you have greater spiritual insight than the apostles, disciples, apostolic and holy fathers and the entire past and present Church members even though you
There are so many political parties that try to deceive us. So many parties that want to exploit us. So many people who press us with their promises and, in the end, they do almost nothing for us. On the other hand,
It is our obligation to do a pilgrimage to Vatopaidi because Saint Savvas learnt here that only through holiness we can build a nation. We, as a nation, are
A profound and hidden mystery is the fall of man. It is quite impossible for a person to understand it by his own powers. This is because
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. And then,
We can divide the human soul into four aspects, three of which are formulated by Plato and, on the whole, are accepted by the Holy Fathers. We have two irrational aspects:
The man who renounces the world from fear is like burning incense that begins with fragrance but ends in smoke. He who leaves the world through hope of reward is like a