2022

In hopes of reviving a dormant tradition, three Chicago parish communities came together on Sunday, January 16, to bless Lake...

On the occasion of the patronal feast day of His Eminence our Archbishop Makarios of Australia, we take this opportunity...

If we bear all our sorrows, we find grace from the Lord. This is why the Lord allows us to be tested: so that we may be tried and he can weave crowns for us. Saint Iosif the Hesychast

Nowadays, from all the studying they do, people end up as tape-recorders and they fill their cassettes with superfluous things. But, according to Abba Isaac, teaching without action is a ‘legacy of shame’. Saint Païsios the Athonite

Very often, what we say is limp and weak. If we want to transmit what we’re saying and make it lively, it has to be incarnate. When, with what you say, you give your flesh and blood to other people, then, and then alone, will your words say something. Archimandrite Vasileios Gontikakis

Of course, good works are not of value when ‘they fall as crumbs from our table’. You don’t give alms from the surplus you have, but from something which will cost you a little. Alms-giving also means hardship and effort. This is why, when Christ saw the widow’s mite, he said: ‘She has put more than anyone into the treasury’. Others put in what they had to spare, but for her it was as if she put in everything she owned, since that was all she had. It’s a good thing if good works involve effort and sacrifice. Metropolitan Athanasios Limassol

When we observe Christ’s commandments, we don’t offer him anything, because he needs nothing since he himself confers all good things. What we do is to benefit ourselves by bringing upon us eternal life and the enjoyment of ineffable blessings. Saint Theodoros of Edessa

Between us and God there’s a wall. This wall is called ‘Me’. This is what doesn’t let God enter. God’s repelled. Get down on your knees, pray, keep a vigil and then see if God doesn’t listen! Hieromonk Chrysostomos Stavronikitianos