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Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos: "Make good use of pain..."
Christ being taken down from His Cross (source) How good it would have been if we did not let pain go to waste! One way or another we will suffer. But our whole torture and struggle will go down the...
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St. Paisios the Athonite on Death, Prayer for the Departed and the Last Judgment
The classic iconographic type depicting the dormition of St. Ephraim the Syrian, with the choirs of his beloved fellow monastics coming from afar to venerate him and pray for him (source) LIFE AFTER...
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Elder Aimilianos: Fasting and Prayer as a Longing for God
Jesus Christ, detail (source) "Longing for God is expressed with fasting, with an empty stomach... Fasting has a unique meaning by expressing the longing for God... The same occurs for prayer. If...
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"O Champions of Christ, you make the all-sacred fast even more joyous..."
The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (source) O Choir of flames four-times-ten, army wholly chosen by God, you make Lent shine furthermore because of your sacred struggles, sanctifying and enlightening...
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Photios Kontoglou on Panagia as the Humble Queen
The Most-holy Theotokos and Christ surrounded with Angels depicted in the wonderworking icon of Panagia Pantanassa (Queen of All) treasured by Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos (source) "Panagia is the...
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St. Seraphim of Vyritsa on the sin and repentance of the youth
St. Seraphim of Vyritsa (source) [St. Seraphim of Vyritsa] loved the youth very much. Then the young people didn't go to church almost at all and the Elder rejoiced very much when they would visit...
View ArticleElder Ephraim of Arizona on Love and Truth
(source) "Go to psychiatric hospitals and see how much the people’s souls suffer. And we, the so-called ‘healthy’ ones, are called to never forget these people! These people should not be left out of...
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St. Gregory Palamas: "Taste and know that the Lord is bountiful..."
Jesus Christ the Son of God the Savior (source) Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable...
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St. Porphyrios and the Monastery of Ntaou (Dao) Penteli
The Holy Martyred Fathers of the Monastery of the Pantocrator, Ntaou (Dao) Penteli, martyred on Great and Holy Pascha, and commemorated on Bright Tuesday (or St. Thomas Sunday in other traditions)...
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"What shall we offer to You, O Christ? For You gave us Your Precious Cross..."
The Exaltation of the Precious Cross of Christ (source) What shall we offer to You, O Christ? For You gave us Your Precious Cross to venerate, on which Your All-holy Blood was spilled, and on which...
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St. John of the Ladder's advice for those living in the world
St. John writing his Ladder of Divine Ascent (source) 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?’...
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St. Ephraim saved the young man from death
St. Ephraim of Nea Makri (source) In 2000, a motorcycle slides off the road in the town of Kounavoi of Heraklion, Crete, in Peza. A car however was coming out of a local gas station and collided with...
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A Miracle of the Newly-revealed Wonderworkers: "The first time in my life I...
Sts. Raphael, Nicholas and Irene of Lesvos (source) D. saw in a dream that she was in the Church of St. Raphael in Ano Souli, Marathon, together with a multitude of people. On the Holy Rock of St....
View ArticleFr. Andreas Konanos on Anxiety and Stress
This is a good talk from Fr. Andreas Konanos, a popular preacher in Greece in recent years. Fr. Andreas has a very light-hearted, positive style and tends to discuss a lot of topics in a spiritual...
View ArticleA great wonder of St. Iakovos of Evia
In this moving clip from a talk by Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou (Cyprus), he discusses how St. Iakovos of Evia was able to enlighten him as to God's will and providence, as he pondered why his...
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St. Paisios on the Donkey that carried Christ
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (source) I would want very much to be the little donkey that carried Christ, and later I would cry [for Him]!-St. Paisios the Athonite(source) Through...
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"Flee from the flames, O my soul..."
Abraham and Lot fleeing the destruction of Sodom, while Lot's wife remained and turned to a pillar of salt (source) The Lord once rained fire from heaven and consumed the land of Sodom.Seek salvation...
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"Panagia had a quiet life..."
Copy of the wondrous icon of Panagia Vimatarissa of Vatopedi Monastery (source) Panagia had a quiet life. Within, however, she prayed ceaselessly! Her prayer of the heart did not have any measure of...
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"Panagia had a silent life..."
Copy of the wondrous icon of Panagia Vimatarissa of Vatopedi Monastery (source) Panagia had a silent life. Within, however, she prayed ceaselessly! Her prayer of the heart did not have any measure of...
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St. Amphilochios of Patmos: "Your heart must really be aflame..."
Jesus Christ the Bridegroom (source) Please put this commandment into practice: Cultivate love towards the Person of Christ to such an extent that, when you pronounce His name, tears fall from your...
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