A new beginning every day
Father Timothy used to say: The Saints all their lives were starting over every day, have a new beginning as they Saints said, and suddenly found themselves on the […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
Posts by Helen Kotsaridou
The real pleasure
How can one who enjoys irrational and temporary pleasures be convinced that what he enjoys is not the real pleasure and that the real pleasure must be considered some […]
St Photios the Great – Patriarch of Constantinople
Commemorated February 6 St Photios (later known as Photios the Great – Patriarch of Constantinople) was born around 820 AD to holy parents, who were confessors of […]
Care for the other
To have contact with Christ, He must rest with your whole life. And Christ rests when you rest your neighbor, in the good sense. That's why I emphasize […]
How can we live joylessly
The Christian who complains, who constantly frets and fumes, doesn’t feel that it is a great matter that he came into existence from non-being and exists as a creature […]
The love of God
There is the familiar argument of the atheists: Why doesn't God regulate all this if he is omnipotent? Or is he not omnipotent? Obviously, God is omnipotent! But his power is not that of […]
Spiritual messages
It is the starting point Worship is not limited to certain times of prayer (Orthros, Vespers, etc.). The particular times of prayer are the starting point from which the […]
Saint Xenophon, his wife Maria, and their sons Arcadius and John By St. Dimitri Rostov
Saint Xenophon was one of the foremost nobles of Constantinople. He possessed abundant worldly goods, but was richer still in inner treasures: faith, piety, and the zealous observance of […]
We have lost Christ
Perhaps, in the end, we are stagnating spiritually not because there were other opportunities in the years of persecution and now things are different, but because we have lost […]
How to read the Psalms and the Prayers
When you read the verses of the psalms and the prayers, do not think that they are someone else's words, which you repeat, and thus, you think that the psalms […]