Month: January 2017
31 posts
Answers at existential questions
Father Simeon from the Holy Mountain gives answers for the existential questions of men Who is the best…
When the nun stretched out her hand, he spat in it jeeringly
A merciful nun who was begging from house to house for raising money for the poor from a…
The monk and the donkey
A monk named Gherontie had a donkey and because he didn’t want to tire him out he never…
The man and the land
The man is like the land. You remove the weeds from it, you dig it, you say ”Praised…
The door of the heart
The painter had finished his painting which presented Jesus standing in front of a door. He called his…
Closeness to God may be felt only in sufferance
The real joy in God is never steady, on the contrary: the darker are the surroundings, the brighter…
The people of nowadays don’t need preachers, but some people to listen to their pain
His holiness Hierotheos Vlachos A young girl came and told me she wanted to talk with me. And…
Only God knows
A very useful story Once in a village lived a poor old man, who had a beautiful horse…
The supreme courage of the Christian – the baring of his soul through confession
On Saturday evening when the priest came, I had all my sins written on a paper. After I…
The One who loves me boundlessly is waiting for me
If someone had told me…that at the end of the road or in another town or on another…