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...
Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Seeing Reality
“Our spiritual life is not something bookish or that follows formulas. Everything we learn has to become part of our life and something natural to us. We can be...
Elder St Paisios on Finding Spiritual Friends
“Those who want to live a spiritual life will eventually find that they are not able to do it in this world; they will be searching to find people...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on the Judgement
“The years roll by and pass, and day by day each one of us draws closer and closer to the end of his life. Our precious time rolls by...
Elder St. Porphyrios on Leaving Things in God’s Hands
“We shouldn’t blackmail God with our prayers. We shouldn’t ask God to release us from something, from an illness, for example, or to solve our problems, but we should...
Metropolitan Onuphry on Adoration
“History tells us that the Magi, who are also called kings, came not from one country, but from three different countries: Persia, Arabia, and Ethiopia. All of them, independent...