Beware of limiting the good of fasting to mere abstinence from meats. Real fasting is alienation from evil. ‘Loose the bands of wickedness.’ For give your neighbour the mischief […]
Category: Catechisms and articles
Who made God?
The human mind cannot capture the without beginning and without end of God. God, as God, is infinite in space and time, is without beginning and without end, is […]
Demoniacs then and now
My beloved, you heard the sacred and holy gospel. A small book the Gospel, but it is the most beautiful, most powerful, most superb, incomparable book of the world. […]
But One Prayer is Needful
When I asked if he knew the words to the Akathist hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos – since it is common in Greece for many faithful and monastics […]
How to confront grief?
Grief is coming (Extract from a morning sermon) There are people, who, when they are healthy and their wallets are full, their children are progressing and everything is pleasant, they […]
Before the new testament was the Divine liturgy.
We Orthodox live Christ within the Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy is a work of God. We say: […]
Apocalyptic times
Love toward Christ demands sacrifices. And truly the ancient Christians were subjected to sacrifices who, during the persecutions of the first three centuries suffered numerous severe trials, and, […]
On Witchcraft
One day there came to the Metropolis a woman. She appeared to be very scared. I ask her: – What happened and you appear so scared? – Despot, a […]
What is God?
“I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and of everything visible and invisible.” God exists, dear friends, God exists! It is declared […]
The History of the Cross
Today, beloved brothers and sisters, we mark a great feast, a great celebration: it is the Exaltation of the Precious Cross. This feast carries us off to […]