Month: February 2017
28 posts
The tea, the carrot and the egg
Did I tell you the story with the tea, the carrot and the egg? The niece said that…
Why does love between brothers weaken?
An elder said: When your love for your brothers weakens this happens because you receive the thoughts of…
Words and stories of elder Paisios (I)
Aforetime in monasteries there was much zeal for ascetic strive, piety, union. When someone was coming as a…
Any pain, any trouble, any toil is sent to us for strengthening us spiritually
A faithful man fell quite often into despair and by doing so he forgot about the will of…
I shall not overlook even your slightest sacrifice!
A woman had a husband who had become heavily addicted to drunkenness. It was more and more difficult…
When you get the desire to pray for someone, this is a sign that God Himself wants to save this soul
God wants to save all people and in His kindness He calls the entire world to Him. God…
What a difficult thing is for someone to love his enemies!
Everything is bad in the man is only adventitious. Don’t despise anyone, even if you see some troubled,…
5 terrible prophecies about what expects us soon
The times we’re living are more and more troubled, more and more insecure. The peace people seek is…
What’s the most important limb of the body?
Once when I was a child, my mother asked me what was in my opinion the most important…
Spiritual butterflies
The human heart is like a ball of fluff. Christ, blow over it so that by Your divine…