Introduction On the Fifth Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Righteous Mother Mary of Egypt. The feast day of Saint Mary of Egypt is April 1, however, […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
The Greek Freedom Fighters of 1821 are in Paradise
Saint Porphyrios Kausokalyvitis had seen the Freedom Fighters of 1821 with Kolokotronis first, all in Paradise…! And when they asked him what we should do, to go with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fasting
Fasting is the food of the soul. Indeed, just as food can make the body fat, so fasting strengthens the soul, makes it lighter, elevates it spiritually and […]
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 […]
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 […]