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The monk who wanted to become an angel
Abba John the Little told his elder brother once: `I want to be without any worry, like angels,…
The Gospel of the day (Mark 4, 10–23)
Explaining the Parable of the Sower 10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the…
The life of pious Ephrem Philotheos
Pious Ephrem was born in 1927 in Volos, Greece, receiving at his baptism the name of John. He…
By confession the man frees himself
`Father, in the first days of Christianity the Christians made a public confession. Does this help?` `The first…
Good confessors are needed
Today the people are tired, flustered and darkened by sin and selfishness. That is why there are needed…
The Gospel of the day (Matthew 22, 15–22)
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar 15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in…
Everything in Christ!
We can only honor the confessors by an unequivocal attitude. There were years when I read and spoke…
The Gospel of the day (Mark 4, 1-9)
The parable of the sower 4 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him…
Fire and water
A believer came to pious Pimen and asked him: `Father, how to get rid of the bad thoughts…