Month: December 2016
30 posts
The prayer and the scale
Metropolitan Chrysostom of Edesa A poor mother who had many children went to the grocery to buy on…
Abba, give me a blessing for the Birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
Abba, give me a blessing for the coming feast of the Birth of our Lord! I wish you…
The boy with the doll
I was in a store, at the toys department. I noticed with the corner of my eye a…
Some pretexts used by the parents who don’t want to see their children married soon
1.He/she is young. Somebody will say: But he/she is young. Of course, I know that too. But if…
Abba Porphyrios : Any impediment is for your good and by analogy any comfort is for your harm
The more hard-hearted is the man, the deeper is his fall. An egg breaks even when it falls…
The tight embrace of his father
Once there was 20 y.o. boy who was already addicted to heroin. Lately reaching the edge of survival,…
The long-standing patience which brought plenty of divine grace
A saint abba said: There was an old hermit whom I visited once when I was exhausted because…
Joy as criterion
It’s not possible to say “I’m fasting” when you don’t enjoy fasting. It’s not possible to say “I…