By Metropolitan Seraphim of Kastoria Hypocrisy: The Illness of our Time In Matins of Holy and Great Tuesday, which is chanted by custom in the evening of Holy and Great Monday, there will parade before us hypocrisy and the hypocrites, the theater and actors, and will feature the terrible "woe" … [Read more...]
Why The Demons Attack Us
By St. Maximos the Confessor There are said to be five reasons why God allows us to be assailed by demons. The first is so that, by attacking and counterattacking, we should learn to discriminate between virtue and vice. The second is so that, having acquired virtue through conflict and toil, … [Read more...]
On How To Approach The Eucharist
by St. Macarius of Jerusalem, died (ca. 335) And how shall we draw near to the holy table and the life-giving Sacrament? Let no one dare to come near to this cup of immortality in double-mindedness, or with lack of faith, or with improprieties, lest the will of God be moved unto wrath on all … [Read more...]
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