The Nativity of the Theotokos ( source )     The heavier the burdens we’ve got to lift in this world, the greater God’s blessing will be, a...

The Holy Fathers ( source ) "We should never attack a Bishop with our mouth. He has the episcopacy upon him. Regardless of the mistake...

Christ healing the Ten Lepers ( source )   St. Luke of Crimea: The Meaning of Sorrows Continuously, people ask why the Lord God sends...

Icon of the Hospitality of Abraham, and type the Holy Trinity ( source )    Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he...

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! St. John the Russian ( source )    You were led away like a stranger and a slave, by the hands o...

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Christ healing the Paralytic ( source )     "The sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is ...

Blessed Makrina of Portaria, at her Monastery of Panagia Odigitria, in springtime ( source )    A Message of Consolation from Gerontis...

Christ raising Lazarus, by Photios Kontoglou ( source )    Photios Kontoglou: "Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord...

Holy Prophet Job ( source )    St. John Chrysostom on Job's Suffering as Consolation O n both sides, beloved, reap the utmost gai...

An Orthodox Family that gathers in prayer and love at home ( source )    "Your house can be a monastery, if you wish. There is no...

Christ willingly being judged before Pilate ( source )    "My child, we Christians do not have money, nor power. Today, this worl...

Jesus Christ the Son of God the Savior of the world ( source )    A spiritual child of St. Porphyrios spoke of the Saint: "He spo...

This is a great talk from the noted speaker, Fr. Andreas Konanos (in Greek, with English subtitles) on the topic of "When things don...

St. Iakovos of Evia ( source )    "Do not hope in the world. Be careful in your social interactions. Never listen to what the wor...

Icon of the Parable of the Ten Virgins ( source )    When you desire and wait to be united with God, when you force God, He does not c...

St. Symeon the New Theologian ( source )    “To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It me...

St. Ambrose of Optina ( source )    “A continuously happy life produces extremely unhappy consequences. In nature we see that there ar...

Prayer before Christ ( source )    "The best fasting is to endure whatever is sent to you by God." -St. Anatolios of Opt...

Fr. Nicholas Pekatoros ( +February 13th/26th, 1996) , among the Russian parishioners of Athens ( source )    Archimandrite Nicholas Pe...