If Someone Slanders You
A brother asked the Abba Barsanuphius, “Elder if I learn that someone says evil about me, what should I do?” The Elder answered, “Get up immediately and say a prayer firstly for him and then for yourself saying, “Lord Jesus…
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Τὸ πιὸ εὔκολο πρᾶγμα, εἶναι νὰ εἶσαι ὁ Ἰούδας…
τοῦ Δημητρίου Παπαγιαννοπούλου Τὸ πιὸ εὔκολο πρᾶγμα, εἶναι νὰ εἶσαι ὁ Ἰούδας. Λὲς πὼς εἶσαι φίλος, μὰ ὅταν βρεῖς τὴν εὐκαιρία, δὲ διστάζεις γιὰ τριάκοντα ἀργύρια, μὲ ἕνα φιλὶ νὰ προδώσεις τοὺς ἀνθρώπους σου. Τὸ πιὸ εὔκολο πρᾶγμα, εἶναι νὰ…
Kindling a Confession of Faith
St. Theodore the Studite “Your courageous seeking out of the word of truth is a firm-making of the Church under the heavens and your zeal kindles in the fervid confession of our Faith forever all of the world .” (Letter…
The Church is a Dye Shop – St. John Chrysostom
The Church is a dye shop. If you leave without being dyed at all, what is the benefit of having gone? I beg of you, be careful then, that you enter with consciousness and the fear of God and depart…
Reveal Your Shame for it to be Washed
The Lord scorneth the scorners: but He giveth grace unto the lowly (Prov. 3:34). Particularly remember these words when you go to confession. Nothing like pride binds your tongue to keep it from saying, “I am a sinner.” Humble yourself…
Saint Macarius the Great, St Seraphim of Sarov and the Aim of Our Christian Life
by Reader Timothy Wakefield In the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Seraphim of Sarov, in his now-famous interview with N.A. Motovilov, revealed a ‘lost’ teaching of the Orthodox Church. In…
The Lord Did Not Say, “Do Not Work, Do Not Eat, Do Not Drink,” but Rather, Let Not Your Heart Be Weighed Down With This
by St. Theophan the Recluse [Heb. 7:1-6; Luke 21:28-33] And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.…
