“And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God…” The first article of the Symbol of Creed, speaks about God. Continuing now, we will discuss the second […]
Category: Spiritual Life
The secret to obtaining the grace of God
In the struggle for Christian virtue it is easy to lose hope and to stop struggling. Many a times do we say, ‘It’s just too hard!’ In today’s spiritual […]
The Sunday of the Prodigal Son
A young man called his Spiritual Father on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. The Elder responded on the phone: “Many Years my child.” “Elder, is not my name […]
Our talents
“And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five […]
“If God doesn’t intervene, there is no salvation for me”
Pay attention to this –pay close attention. It’s possible for someone to do the holiest of things, and yet his selfishness afflict him even more deeply. This is especially sure […]
Only Obedience saves us
People today are so obsessed with themselves, so mastered by their completely sinful state –a state in which sin and sickness are all mixed up together– and in which […]
Watchfullness
Watch out for your thoughts that they do not travel here and there, but glue them tightly on the name of Christ. Fr. Efraim Filotheitis Translated by […]
The virtues are in the middle
The cardinal virtues are four: courage, prudence, discreetness, and fairness. There are eight other moral states that either go beyond or fall short of these virtues. Spiritual people consider […]
Victims of our own mentality?
Ηe, who suppose to be a Christian, even if he doesn’t become a true Christian, he will be driven heather and yon by his own “keel”. In any […]
Before the Nativity
(Mat. 1: 1-25) The biggest evil and the biggest of all goods It so happens that even a lot of christians have not realised that all […]