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Today marks the worldwide implementation of the Codex Alumentarius which is a private trade commission sanctioned by the UN in 1962. This ...

"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradi...

"An old man said, 'I would rather have a defeat with humility than a victory with pride."

" A dead man judges no one, and it is just the same with the man who is humble" Our holy Father Longinus lived in the Egyptian des...

The wrath of God is the painful sensation we experience when we are being trained by Him. Through this painful experience of unsought suffer...

...But his enemies were not to be appeased. From the capital came orders to transfer Saint John to desolate Pitius (in Abkhazia). Worn out b...

Lawlessness is a mystery that leads to darkness and death and truth is a mystery that leads to enlightenment and life. Satan works through m...

...The Monk Ioannikes spent 70 years in ascetic deeds and attained to an high spiritual perfection. Through the mercy of God the saint acqui...

"Don't criticize or judge other people. Regard everyone else as an angel, justify their mistakes and weaknesses, and condemn only ...

Saint James presided over the Council of the Apostles at Jerusalem, and his word was decisive (Acts 15). In his thirty years as bishop the A...

"By means of smell the saint learned with which passion this or that man was afflicted."...

The desire of my life has been to please God and is it not our Creator Himself who put this desire within the heart of every man to seek aft...

If God created all things and proclaimed them to be very good then why do we think of germs as bad? Could it be due to the propaganda of mo...

"Do you see how many good things temptations and afflictions cause? So if you too want to see, to taste the love of Christ, endure what...

Our kingdom is not of this world. The kingdom of this world belongs to Satan. Don't forget that and remember that Satan hates the Orth...

Mankind thrives on images. Images delight us, entertain us, inspire us, grieve us, anger us and all in all have a tremendous influence on o...

"For repentance is the way and the key to the Kingdom of Heaven, without which no one can enter into it." St. Alexander of Svir If...

The demons adore modernity and its dissipating influence on the church. Modernity is anti- Christianity . Modernity is mind numbing and ...

"Walk before God in simplicity, and not in subtleties of the mind. Simplicity brings faith; but subtle and intricate speculations bring...

"Know that the holy angels encourage us to pray and stand beside us, rejoicing and praying for us. Therefore, if we are negligent and a...

The Holy First-Martyress and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla was born in the city of Iconium. She was the daughter of rich and illustrious pare...

"In acquiring the Spirit of God consists the true aim of our Christian life, while prayer, fasting, almsgiving , virtues and other good...

Man cannot attain correct knowledge, undistorted observation or clear discernment without the illumination of the Holy Spirit of God. All ...

The Temple of the Lord and the Holy of Holies in all of it's beautiful adornment is present on the earth and has been for almost 2,000 ...

"...God adorned human nature in this way because He was going to clothe Himself in it. He was to assume it from the blood of the Virgin...

The Monk Euphrosynos – was from one of the Palestinian monasteries, and he did his obedience working in the kitchen as a cook. Toiling awa...

Unpolluted, undefiled, a perfect lamb. The first fruits of the wheat. Modernity has desecrated the Holy Sacrament of communion. The prosphor...

"The heart cannot remain firm in purity, so as not to be defiled, if it will not be crushed by fasting. It is impossible also to preser...

The Russian translation of the book published on Mt. Athos back in 1912, “The Posthumous Predictions of St. Nilus the Myrrh-streaming,” whic...