I remember the case of a woman who married a widower. He was a worthy man and she was glad they were together. There was only one thing that bothered her and for this reason she came to ask my advice. `What happened in the moment we went out of the church after the wedding […]
Many times, being in pilgrimage in Athos I wondered what these people can feel who choose priesthood or monarchism leaving behind everything is of the world. Probably their reward is as big as their struggles; it is a great gift since when they choose this path they rarely turn back. And all these questions were […]
Maybe the greatest quality of a man who seeks God is patience ! When someone who was downcast came to elder Cleopa, he said: Patience! Patience! Patience! Patience shows the humbleness of the man who says: God, I have patience and I wait to see Your will is done, not mine! Many times I put myself […]
To be for fifteen years `at the feet` – to use a suggestive expression – of a kind of Elder who appears in the Church once in two hundred years, it is a great blessing from God. But even for us it is a blessing to find out, even if only partially, some of the […]
Αrchimandrite Ephrem Filotheos At the Holy Liturgy it is fulfilled this elevate and frightening Sacrament. The Holy Table is like Golgotha where Christ was crucified and gave His spirit. Giving His spirit to God, His Father, in accordance with the human nature, He immediately destroyed the wall between God and man. The wall which […]
Saint Luke of Crimea Know this, remember it and do not join the heretics. Do not go away of the Church, do not tear Jesus Christ’s kiton. Remember that Christ in His hierarchical prayer asked His Father saying: ` that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am […]
The old monk stood up, went to the open window of the balcony and raised his eyes to the starry sky. Outside an unspeakable silence reigned in the night. The group was covered by a deep silence. After a while the Elder went back to his place, thoughtful and divinely changed and he said in […]
The mystery of the truth does not consist in things, ideas, symbols, but in the Person and this is the theanthropic Person of our Lord Jesus Christ: `I am the Truth`, absolute Truth, never changed, always being one, in perfect fullness, always one, yesterday and today and forevermore. A truth always unchanged by times, always […]
In some of its details or even in its fundamental elements, eschatology knew in the history of the Christian thinking some divergent opinions which did nothing else than lead to the more clear affirmation and formulation of the Christian teaching. The Teaching of the Holy Scripture about heaven and hell In the Gospel of Saint […]
Saint John of Kronstadt, a Russian priest, confessor and zealous preacher of the Gospel, lived at the end of the 19th –beginning of the 20th century. He was a clairvoyant and wonder maker. His occupation was to serve the suffering people daily. His great love for Christ obliged him to confess the truth about the […]
