Anyone want to stay awake? The devil hinders with slothfulness and indolence and so opposes us in everything, in every good thing with which we are occupied. That […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
A little Easter
During the Sunday Eucharist we celebrate a little Easter, that is, our passage from death to life, from the land of the dead to the land of […]
Spiritual messages
Forget them The more we constantly recall the evils our brothers have done to us, said St. Macarius, the more we turn away from God. If we […]
‘He who teaches
It is good to teach, but if you apply what you say so that your actions are consistent with what he says and by his silent example be recognized for […]
Otherwise how is it possible
The Creator and our Maker is God by nature, by His nature, while we become gods by grace, because while by nature we remain human, by His grace we […]
The Akathist Hymn
"Rejoice, unfading rose. Rejoice, the only one who budded forth the unfading apple. Rejoice, birth-giver of the aromatic balm of the King of all. Rejoice, O Bride unwedded, […]
Saint Anicetus of Rome
The Holy Hieromartyr Anicetus was from the city of Emesa in Syria and he was Bishop of Rome in the middle of the 2nd century AD. (155 – […]
The Prophetic Saint
Once three young ladies went to see Saint Seraphim of Sarov and one of them said to the Saint: "I, elder, want to be a nun, and glorify God." and […]
The state of your heart
Happiness lies within your own self, and blessed is the man who understood this. Examine your heart and see its spiritual state. Has your heart lost confidence in […]
Holy New Martyr George of Ephesus
Holy New Martyr George was born in New Ephesus in 1756 to a father from Samos. He married and had several children. One day in June of […]