Man suffers because of his sins. However, the goodness of God counts the pain as spiritual work, and He gives wages and a reward. How can we not love […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
Heal first yourself and then ask for the others
Today many children are suffering because of the unfaithfulness and hard-heartedness of their parents. I remember in Athens there was a husband and wife who once invited […]
To set us free
All the emptiness, poverty, suffering, anguish, death, which the Lord received for us, culminate in the Cross. On the Cross He experienced the deepest pain, and the greatest humiliation […]
They darken the mind
It is selfishness and ego that prevents man from loving God and loving his brother. The Christian struggles to root out selfishness, to root out the passions […]
Which is better- The way of Mary or the way of Martha?
Today’s thought is from an anonymous Desert Father who was questioned about whether it is better to live the solitary life of contemplation and poverty or to devote one’s […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. About Illness
The afflictions felt in illnesses are sent by the holy hand of our good God. The most effective medicine for spiritual health is bodily illness. Illnesses are […]
How to Overcome Inactivity
When Saint Antony the Great was in the desert, he once fell into inactivity and dormancy and great confusion of his thoughts and said to God Lord, I […]
Our Saints are always with us
We had gone on a pilgrimage to Saint Patapios (his memory is commemorated on December 8) in the monastery at Loutraki where his incorruptible body is kept, with […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona-Love, Humility and Others
I pray your soul is in good health, for when it is healthy, it has patience in afflictions, it has self-denial with the body and in […]
You get some of the fragnance
Said an elder: "He who enters the shop where they sell perfumes, even if he buys nothing, he certainly gets some of the fragrance in him. Similarly, he […]