After those who entered the ancient Church had been baptized, the whole of their life was imbued with the sacred desire for Holy Communion. The places of worship, especially the catacombs, were full of allegorical symbols of the heavenly nourishme...

We shouldn’t blackmail God in our prayers.

We shouldn’t ask Him to release us from something, like an illness or whatever. Nor to solve our problems for us.

We should just ask for strength and support from Him, so that we can bear these.

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If you gloat, you’re happy to see other people suffer.

Those who do so are happy to see an enemy die, forgetting that death comes to all of us. They’re malicious, they scowl, they have a cunning look about them.

Their lips are tight and their mou...

The incident mentioned in today’s Gospel reading (Mark 9, 17-31) is placed immediately after the Lord’s descent from the mountain on which He was transfigured before three of His disciples. After the glory of the transfiguration, Christ encounters...

Ioannis-Eleemon Papagiannopoulos-Vatopaidinos, Maria Papagiannopoulou – Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
Vassilis Sideris – Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athen...

There’s nothing worse than Christians who don’t save other people. Don’t cry poverty, because you’ll be condemned by the widow who put in her two mites. Don’t claim that you come from a humble background, because the Apostles were insignificant a...

After the middle of this period [Lent], then, the Church provides appropriate additional help in our ascetic efforts, which differ in accordance with the capacities of each one of us, by presenting the perfect figure of asceticism, Saint John of t...

Gero-Arsenios was always agreeable and gave out blessings very easily. One time, however, he strangely became so strict and unyielding that he upset one of the fathers. Afterwards, when he was asked why he had been so harsh with him, he answered: ...

The 3rd Sunday is also known as the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, and according to the Calendar of Feasts (Synaxari): on that day, the third Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the veneration of the of the precious and life-giving cross. The Sun...

The path of our life here on earth is deceptive and misleading.

To those taking their first steps, it seems endless and full of activity.

To those who’ve reached the end, it seems very short and full of hollow dreams.

» Venerable Païsios the Atho...