Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, Author of “the Ladder”
Saint John of the Ladder is honored by Holy Church as a great ascetic and author of the renowned spiritual book called THE LADDER, from which he is […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
Posts by Helen Kotsaridou
My Prayer Ropes Were Full of Myrrh and Fragrance
Last summer I went with friends to Mount Athos and we stayed for two days in Megisti Lavra, the oldest and first in the order of the monasteries of […]
What God wants to tell us
God comes near us, God speaks to us. It is a very big thing to be able to hear God’s voice, no matter how it may reach us […]
The God’s mercy
Man knows he has to act according to God’s command. Yet, he fails and breaks the command. On account of this violation, guilt is immediately created within […]
Holy Martyr King Edward of England
Edward was the oldest son of English King Edgar, who reigned from the year 957. Edgar, like his famous great-grandfather King Alfred the Great, was remembered as […]
Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, First Bishop of Britain
Aristobulus was one of the Seventy Apostles,* and a follower of the Holy Apostle Paul, with whom he preached the gospel of Christ in various places, and […]
Prayer and Fasting
Prayer, my children, and fasting: these are good for the soul of man. And the prophet Elijah was just another human being, a "like-minded" man, but by his […]
I can lift my cross with His help
The Lord is a living God, who governs all, who sorts everything out according to his merciful plan, who loves us, who has taken us under His wing, who […]
It presupposes
The true Worship of the Creator results in the love of creatures. Who can properly and truly love man if he has not been incandescent with the God-human […]
Memory of Holy forty-two Martyrs of Amorium
Today, March 6, Saturday of the Souls, as it is called, the Church commemorates the miraculous event of the discovery of the Holy Cross by St. Helen. The […]