I don’t know if, in other eras, people experienced confusion regarding words, that is, that they said one thing and meant another. Despite the great achievements of scientific progress, technological development, the shrinking of distances, and tr...

‘But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them- yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me’ (1. Cor. 15, 10).

Saint Paul calls to mind a very great truth for us Chris...

Today’s Gospel reading tells us how the fishermen of Galilee specifically and in practice denied themselves and their own affairs, followed Christ and became his disciples and apostles.

Our Lord was at Lake Gennesaret, and on the bank he saw two b...

To understand what St. Paul is talking about in today’s reading, we have to remember that in his previous Epistle to the Corinthians, the Holy Apostle severely rebuked the Christians of that community for their bad conduct. The result of this was ...

What should be admired first from what the Evangelist Luke told us today? The people of Galilee, who thirsted to hear the words of Jesus? They filled the shore of Lake Gennesaret as soon as they learned that Jesus was there, and they longed to see...

If you say the prayer continuously, the mind settles it in the heart. By your own will-power, keep your mind purely on the words, without entertaining any imaginations, only the words of the prayer. Then the mind is cleansed and is satisfied with...

‘The holy Evangelist Luke says in his Gospel that when the venerable and righteous Zachariah  entered the holy of holies in order to offer the sacrifice of incense, when he was on duty in the temple, the archangel Gabriel appeared to him and trans...

The moon, which waxes and wanes, resembles people, in that we sometimes do good and then sin. We then repent and return to the life of virtue. So people who sin don’t lose their minds, as some say, just as the body of the moon doesn’t decrease, b...

We usually view other people on the basis of our own inner eyes and ‘what the heart is full of’ (Luke 6, 45). If we’re cunning, we think other people are cunning, as well; if we’re guileless, we think that other people are, too.

Saint Gregory the ...

Very often, although there’s no external threat to us, our soul’s overcome with anxieties, fears, reservations, doubts and worries. Something’s missing from the soul then; it’s lacking something. The greatest lack our soul can experience is the a...