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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“Domine, Quo Vadis?” “Eo Romam Iterum Crucifigi.”
“Lord, where are you going?” “I am going to Rome to be crucified again.” -Thoughts +BP In the apocryphal “Acts of St. Peter”, it is reported that Peter started to flee Rome at the time of Emperor Nero’s persecution. Saint Peter realizes…
They do not want to examine things and are carried away by phantoms to which the delusion of a depraved heart willingly imparts some probability – St. Theophan the Recluse
[Acts 4:13–22; John 5:17–24]. Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard (Acts 4:19–20). Thus spoke…
Do Schismatics (or Even More So Those for Years in Communion with Heretics) have the Grace of the Holy Spirit?
“Such a schism, ( a long-lasting one)” says Saint Basil, is “already in all things like unto heresy, and one must treat such schismatics as one would heretics, not permitting any communion with them.” St. John Chrysostom says, “Thou sayest,…
St. Anatoly of Optina: Do not fear sorrows, but fear the stubbornness of heretics
“Do not fear sorrows, but fear the stubbornness of heretics who try to separate a man from Christ, which is why Christ commanded us to consider them as pagans and Pharisees.”
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…
Concerning Satiation by St. Basil the Great
The grace of satiation stands at the belly, while the grace of fasting elevates the profit of the soul.
Leave Thy Homeland!
St. Theophan the Recluse The Lord had said unto Abraham: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee (Gen. 12:1). This is an explicit image…
On the Sunday of St. Gregory Archbishop of Thessaloniki Palamas
By Reader Timothy St Gregory Palamas, whom the Church celebrates today, the second Sunday of Lent, was heavily persecuted in his lifetime. The persecution came, as it often does, as a result of an apparently very learned individual who had…