Orthodox Gladness

 

 

As long as the candles are lit, they cry out have mercy, have mercy, have mercy on the man who lit the candle to God. The devil knows this a...

The acquisition of the Holy Spirit is reflected on the face of a person and pours out through his eyes, by which it is easy to learn about t...

On Holy Thursday 2002 I had the great blessing to transfer the holy father, from the hospital of Serres where he was being treated, in Thess...

Once, because of many heavy sorrows, a great sorrow came over me and I cried out to God, exhausted. And in this unbearable sorrow I heard a ...

During one of our visits to the Holy Father, a man came to us, very well known to Fr. Ioannis, and very angrily referred to the problems tha...

You will see the persecution of the Church. You will see how they will close the churches and turn them into warehouses! Fr. Eumenios Lampak...

 

Beg with tears, like Mary Magdalene, saying: “Do not abandon me, O my Christ! Do not leave me alone, O my Christ! My sweetest Christ, do no...

Somewhere on a route to Mount Athos, I met an elder. I wanted to ask him for his blessing. I said: "Elder, your blessing." I bend ...

  - Geronda, what is the place and environment of the saints? - Obscurity.    Its about seeing everyone without anyone seeing you.

Excerpt from the speech of the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Gregory of Mount Athos, Archimandrite Christoforos, to the brothers of t...

The late Elder Epiphanius said: One night I fell into a great drowsiness, due to the terrible insomnia. I prayed in pain to the Lord, sayi...

And today there are “secret” saints everywhere who do not open up to a curious and unrepentant heart. Sometimes they live where you don'...

  If a day has passed during which you do not sense Christ in your heart by means of prayer, reading of the Psalter and the Gospel, etc cons...

When we give names to the church for the priests to read, first of all we should mention the name of our spiritual father. - Blessed Father ...

 

“Do home-schooling, do you hear? Have home churches. Have home pharmacies. You will see in a little while, they will tell you in a little wh...

Don't expect it to get easier, easier, better.  It won't.  There will always be difficulties.  Learn to be happy now.  Otherwise you...