Fr. Vasileos on Giving Thanks
“My dear friends, our Lord Jesus Christ is the only person on earth and in heaven who is sufficiently thankful to God, His Father. We on our own can...
Elder St. Joseph the Hesychast on Illness and Trials
“The works of Satan are nothing next to the power of God. So when the Lord tests us as He knows best, we should show our patience and thankfulness. Now...
Elder Sophrony on Knowing God
“But the only study that enables us to sense what God is like, is the ascetic life according to the commandments of the Gospel. When our life is lived...
Archimandrite Zacharias of Essex on Responding to God
“But given the fact that God always wants to give us all that He has, it is up to us to respond to His wish, to His desire, and,...
St John on Seeing God in our Lives
“We certainly do discover God by admiring his incomprehensible essence, which still lies hidden in the hope of the promise. But we also see him through the greatness of...
Abbot Silouan on Listening
“God is speaking to us at every moment; He does so sometimes clearly, sometimes through a glass, darkly. The very events and circumstances of our life are the language...
Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Immersing Ourselves in Orthodoxy
“We must be not just aware of what our Church teaches and does — we must be trying to saturate ourselves in it. St. Seraphim, in his spiritual instructions,...
Elder St Porphyrios on Inexperience in Confession
“..when I first started to hear confessions I use to really ‘scald’ those who came to make confession. I used to have a my side St Nikodemos’s Confessor’s Guide*...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona+ on our Struggles
“I pray with all my heart that the blessing and grace of the All-holy Spirit and dew from heaven overshadow, caress, and spread out onto your dear souls and...
Elder Paisios on Holy Empathy
“He realizes it from the divine consolation which he feels inside after praying from the heart in pain. But first, you must make the other person’s pain your own...