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 […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
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 […]
The Power of Holy Communion
When you take communion you not only get strength, but you are enlightened, you see broad horizons, you feel joy… Everyone feels differently, depending on the mood and […]
Without morality
We live in a world dominated by an anti-Cross spirit. A world that has as ideals, the lack of morality, the satisfaction of passions, prosperity, well-being and […]
Spiritual messages
Accusations The accusations of people cause sorrow in the heart, but they could become a way to clean yourself if you endure them. St. Mark the Ascetic Without […]