Sacrifice everything for Christ. For Christ, though, not for anything or anyone. » Venerable Païsios the Athonite Source: pemptousia.com
You can’t go to Church on Sunday because you’re working? You can make yourself an altar at that time by...
Cultivate the Jesus prayer and the time will come when your heart will leap for joy, as it does when...
When He came into the world, Our Lord Jesus Christ had complete respect for the freedom of us His servants:...
With a good word about your neighbor, in their defense, you buy Paradise. » Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos Source: pemptousia.com
One of the signs of egotism is the presence of some feeling of jealousy within us. We must avoid this...
Insofar as someone suffers a variety of trials, be they bodily or spiritual and bears them consciously and thanks God,...
We say that mental prayer is for all Christians. Mental prayer is also called prayer of the heart. You ask...
Take care that you know the health and sickness of your soul. Saint Basil the Great Source: pemptousia.com
It’s great to walk, to work, to move and to have your health. But first you should have your spiritual...
Abbot – Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou When marriage is no more than a physical and social fact, without becoming a...
I don’t want Paradise without you, my children. » Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos Source: pemptousia.com
Following a rigorous search process that began in October 2014, the Board of Trustees of Hellenic College and Holy Cross...
People are never satisfied with what they’ve got, since the soul wasn’t made for this world. So earthly things can’t...
Holywood’s actor Jonathan Jackson, recipient of five Emmy Awards, at an interview given in “Pemptousia” during his recent visit to...
Let’s not give the devil any justification. I don’t allow myself any resentful thoughts nor any egotistical ones, so that...
Be patient with your own passions and be patient with mine. Then you’ll become a saint. » Elder Ephraim of Katounakia...
We are Easter people living, in a Good Friday world. Barbara Johnson Source: pemptousia.com
Hospitality’s the greatest of the virtues. It attracts the Grace of the Holy Spirit. My child, in the face of...
In the old days, people worked with animals. If the animal was tired, they didn’t overload it, they rested it,...
