August 3, 2021 Wordless Sermon Two elderly officers once met after years of not seeing each other. One of them was walking out of a church, and the other…
August 2, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 5 Part 4 Accompanying Temptations Any good deed is usually associated with difficulties and all kinds of temptations. My vigilance was disturbing me. I was…
August 1, 2021 “Did Not Our Hearts Burn within Us?” Elder Aimilianos Through the Eyes of His Spiritual Children Schema-Archimandrite Aimilianos (Vafidis), a great elder of our time, was born on October 5 in 1934. In his memory, we are publishing a talk…
July 31, 2021 Holy Fathers about Repentance Venerable Isaac the Syrian What is repentance? It is leaving one’s past and regretting it. Repentance is the door of mercy opening to those…
July 30, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 4 Part 3 My Companions There is a real writer among my Orthodox friends. He lives in Moscow, and has been to Athos multiple times….
July 30, 2021 The Wisdom of Not Judging Our Bishops Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: The Lord says in His Gospel, “Anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the…
July 29, 2021 Did You Know that There Were Two Blessed Matronas? At the turn of the 20th century there were two saints in Russia with the name Matrona and surprisingly similar fates. Both of them…
July 29, 2021 How Do We Recognize the Presence of the Living Christ in Our Hearts? By His Grace — He Never Judges Anyone. An ignorant man with a corrupted mind will seek to clean out the evil from the world outside. A wise mind with the ability…
July 28, 2021 “I Have Lost Everything Except for What I Have Given Away”. Blessing of Elder Gabriel from the Koutloumousiou Monastery in Mt Athos I pray to God that He may grant us His grace, so that we can love Him with all our hearts and souls, and…
July 27, 2021 Conversations about the Jesus Prayer. Father Euthymios. Dionysiou Monastery At the end of October 1951 I spent several days at the Greek monastery of Saint Dionysios. There I met a Greek man from…
July 26, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 3 Part 2 Preparing for Athos From experienced pilgrims on the internet I learned about the diamonitirion (a permission to visit Athos issued by the…
July 25, 2021 Saint Gabriel’s Interpretation of the Parable of the Ten Virgins “…The fact that love is actually the crown of perfection as the final rung of the ladder and that neither this nor theosis is…
