When you look around your church, do you see other kids too? Jesus invites all the kids to be close to Him. And church is a special place where we can worship all together—young people and old people, and everyone in between. Today, we celebrate a very special feastday of Read more…
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis How often do we do something considered spiritual- prayer, church attendance, fasting, some alms-giving- and think we’ve become ‘Saint Anthony’. Because we compare ourselves… to ourselves. We ourselves are the criterion. It’s like somebody going on a run and thinking they’re running quickly. Then a proper Read more…
We Should Go to the “Church of the Home” Seven Days a Week “Icon Corner” by Ted ©2011, Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Psalm 88:8(9) Every day I call upon You, O Lord; I spread out my hands to You. In the last reflection, we discussed how the primary activity of Read more…
And cause Thy whole nation and every tribe to know and understand that Thou art God, the God of all power and might, and that there is no other who protect the people of Israel but Thou alone! Judith 9:14 Good morning Prayer Team! Today we must all pause Read more…
This Week’s Printable Children’s Word. Has anybody ever told you a secret? “Don’t tell anybody else,” you might have heard. But maybe the story was just too hard to keep a secret, and you told somebody else. A surprise party. A present. A fun trip coming up. Secrets are hard Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou We thank Thee, O Christ our God, for that Thou hast given the place of this Monastery to Thy servant, our holy Elder Sophrony, as a refuge, as a comfort, unto sanctification, as an indestructible link with the communion of all Thy Saints and a wondrous Read more…
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich When you go to the Holy Mountain and see the humble monks, you might think that they live a lazy life, without purpose. It may seem like this if you see things from the outside, because not many people are able to understand the terrible, unceasing Read more…
Saint John Chrysostom Your body was in church, but your soul was outside. Your mouth was praying, but your mind was counting interest payments, agreements, transactions, fields, holdings, gatherings with friends. All of this because the devil is cunning. He knows that we gain a great deal at the Read more…
Scriptures of the Triodion Third Saturday of Great Lent And Jesus called to Him the multitude with His Disciples and He said to them, “If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.” Mark 8:34 Good morning Prayer Team! Deny. Take Read more…
Saint Neilos was born into a wealthy and illustrious family and was probably a pupil of St. John Chrysostom from as early as when the latter was preaching in Antioch. His birth and personal attributes were such that he was raised to the rank of prefect of the capital. The Read more…