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St. Porphyrios: "Take delight in all things that surround us..."
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!Icon of the Resurrection of Christ decorated with flowers (source) “Take delight in all things that surround us. All things teach us and lead us to God. All things...
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St. Luke of Simferopol on Condemnation
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!St. Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of Simferopol of Crimea (source) "Where does condemnation come from? From pride, by the fact that many perceive themselves as...
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"As the Beginningless One Who holds the middle of all things..."
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God (source) You destroyed the gates of death through Your power, making known and opening the gates of the way of life without...
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What is the flame that St. Ephraim is holding?
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!(source) Every icon of St. Ephraim depicts him blessing with his right hand, and with his left, he is holding a flame. This is through divine revelation to the...
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St. Ephraim healing a woman with lung cancer
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!St. Ephraim of Neak Makri healing the sick (source) As was related by S. K., an inhabitant of Kalamata in 2008:"I was feeling like I had a cold, but I didn't go to...
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Prayer to St. Christopher before driving
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!(source) Prayer before driving (to St. Christopher),Translated from Greek By Fr. Ayman Kfouf. The Orthodox tradition describes saint Christopher as a tall man of...
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Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos on the Sunday of the Blind Man
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!Christ healing the Blind Man (source) 5th Sunday After Pascha - May 25, 2014 (John 9: 1-38)“Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”...
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"Strange and awesome is Your divine Ascension..."
The Holy Ascension of Christ (source) Strange is Your Nativity, strange is Your Resurrection, strange and awesome is Your divine Ascension from the mountain, O Giver of Life, which was depicted...
View ArticleElder Nikon of Mount Athos on the Mystery of Pain
(source) This is a wonderful talk by Fr. Nikon of Mount Athos on the nature and mystery of pain in our lives, with English subtitles. As there are so many people every day who are aching in body and...
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"A great and awesome wonder is seen in you, O Father!"
St. John the Russian (source) A great and awesome wonder is seen in you, O Father! For many years after your burial in the tomb, O blessed one, your body is kept incorrupt! But through this you...
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"The Father is light, the Logos is light, and the Holy Spirit is light..."
The Hospitality of Abraham and the Mystery of the Holy Trinity (source) The Father is light, the Logos is light, and the Holy Spirit is light, which was sent down upon the Apostles as fiery tongues,...
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Eldress Makrina of Portaria: "Every person must cultivate his own world..."
Gerontissa (Eldress) Makrina of Portaria (+June 4th, 1995) (source) Every person must cultivate his own world, to train it, to make it [soft as] cotton. Among us, "our words should pour forth with...
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Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos: "God calls all of us and can make each of us a...
Synaxis of All Saints (source) 1st Sunday of Matthew June 15th, 2014 Bl. AugustineMatthew 10: 32-33, 37-38; 19: 27-30‘’The saints make manifest the Holy Spirit’’ A characteristic of...
View ArticleVideo of the Official Canonization of St. Iakovos of Evia (June 3rd, 2018)
This is a video showing the Divine Liturgy served at the Monastery of St. David of Evia, during which the official canonization of St. Iakovos (Tsalikis) of Evia was celebrated by the Ecumenical...
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Blessed Makrina of Portaria (+June 4th, 1995)
Blessed Gerontissa (Eldress) Makrina of Portaria (+ June 4th, 1995) (source) A WONDROUS PURITY OF MIND. BLESSED GERONDISSA MACRINA (1921–1995)Olga Rozhneva, Olga ZatushevskayaOn June 4 we honor the...
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The Spiritual Last Will and Testament of St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon of...
St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon, Archbishop of Simferopol of Crimea (source) THE SPIRITUAL LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SAINT LUKEIt is with a great deal of joy that we publish “The Spiritual Will “ of...
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"Most glorious saints and guardians of the North American lands..."
Synaxis of All Saints of North America, entreating the Lord and the Most-holy Theotokos on behalf of the whole world (source) Most glorious saints and guardians of the North American lands, spiritual...
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St. Luke the Surgeon: "There is no end to Repentance..."
St. Luke the Surgeon (source) A few quotes of St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon, Archbiship of Simferopol: There is no end to Repentance, because Repentance is an unending road. (source) Take care of...
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Elder Amphilochios (Makris) of Patmos (+1970)
Elder Amphilochios (Makris) of Patmos (+April 16th, 1970) (source) Elder Amphilochios of Patmos (Makris) was a priestmonk who lived on Patmos (Greece). The future elder was born on December 13, 1889...
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"O greatly-suffering New Martyrs, you stand before the Protomartyr Christ...
The all precious Choir of the Holy Neomartyrs since the Fall of Constantinople, celebrated the third Sunday after Pentecost (source) O greatly-suffering New Martyrs, you stand before the Protomartyr...
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