Metropolitan Athanasius on God’s Silence
“It often seems to us that God is silent. Or even more precisely, that God is absent. Often we seek God and want Him to do something, but He...
Elder St. Porphyrios on Becoming ‘Worthy’ to Pray
rayers are not heard because we are not worthy. You must become worthy in order to pray. We are not worthy because we do not love our neighbour as...
Fr Jonathan Tobias on the ‘End Times’
“The Orthodox Church has no single dogmatic, mandatory doctrinal statement about the End Times, other than “… and He shall come again with glory to judge the living and...
Elder Anthimos+ on Remembering Judgement
“The phrase of Abba Evagrios in the Gerontikon: ‘Always remember eternal judgment and do not forget your departure, and no fault shall be imputed to your soul’… ‘By the...
Vladimir Basenkov Reviews the Daily Prayer Cycle
“Prayer began with Vespers, as evening was given the first place in the book of Genesis: And the evening and the morning (Gen. 1:5). The beginning of human history...
Elder St Paisios on Philotimo
“Our faith must have philotimo [Christ-like outlook and attitude], and that’s where the philotimo-filled struggle begins. And the more we struggle with philotimo, the more our faith will increase,...
St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Holy Fire
“’I am come to send fire on the earth’ (Lk. 12: 49), said the Lord. This is the heavenly fire of love in which there is no smoke, in...
Elder St Paisios on the ‘Pain’ of Prayer
“Real prayer begins from pain; it is not a pleasant experience, a ‘nirvana’. What kind of pain is it? One is troubled in the good sense of the term....
Elder St Paisios on Relationships
“Naturally, we monks and nuns leave this world and abandon relatives and friends in order to enter the large family of Adam – God’s family. But for the laity,...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Purity of Mind
“My child, fight the good fight of eternal life. Make a good beginning to obtain an excellent end. Keep your nous entirely engrossed in the recollection of Jesus, and...