St. John the Forerunner

“As soon as I went to live at the skete,” recalls Saint Paisios,“an elderly gentleman whom everyone referred to as old Thanasis and who work...

- Elder, I am struck by the courage of the Myrrhbearers. - The Myrrhbearers had great trust in Christ, they were in a spiritual st...

God is very near us, but also very high. In order for someone to have God bend to descend and remain with him, he must be humbled and...

  Apolytikion in the First Tone The offspring of Farasa, and the adornment of Athos, and the imitator of the former righteous, equal i...

It is better for someone to eat a little twice a day and have more humility and a lighter stomach, than to eat once a day, have a full st...