How do we properly make the sign of the Cross?
"Listen, Christians, how we should cross ourselves and what does the sign of the Cross means. The Holy Gospel tells ...
Friday, May 16, 2025
Tag: Spirituality
The truly reasonable man has only one care
The truly reasonable man has only one care, to obey and to be pleasing to God, the Lord of all, ...
Temptations and ordeals during the Great Lent
The pre-Easter period we are going through generates or should generate some special feelings within us. The beautiful and solemn ...
Elder Emilianos: “How will I know if I am sad?”
Elder Emilianos of Simonopetra When one sees himself and the years passing by, when he sees his failures, his wounds, his ...
Sin is the disease in our soul
Saint Symeon the New Theologian Disease does harm to our body like the sin does harm to our soul This ...
No prayer goes to waste
If we want to pray from our heart for our fellow human being, we must feel his pain. We must ...
“Reading the Scriptures is the most pleasant thing”
The study of the Bible was one of the subjects, which often concernced St. John Chrysostom. That is why in ...
There is the wound, but there is also the medicine…
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos Look what the devil did to you. There are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is the ...
These “whys and wherefores” are torturing man a lot
The wise Solomon says that Christ "is inside those who do not hurt Him." Those who "tamper with" God are ...
A prophecy of Abba Pambo
I tell you this, my son, that the time will come when the Christians will add and will take away ...
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