Devotions

We are often ignorant of the true condition of our spiritual hearts because we live primarily through our minds and intellect. We insist on living according to what we have read and our own convictions, imagining that this is true freedom. In reality, however, this can become a false freedom, like the freedom the prodigal son sought when he went astray. This distances us even more from the image of the Lamb, from our Saviour. How greatly we need to pay attention to the condit

A few days ago, we celebrated the feast of a widely known saint, Saint Silouan the Athonite. He is a great saint who received a special message from Christ Himself for his generation and for the generations to come: ‘Keep thy mind in hell and despair not.’ Let’s dig a little deeper into his life: First stage He lived a very simple life with little education. His father was a farmer. His early life doesn’t give the impression that this person would one day become a great saint

The church celebrated the New Ecclesiastical year on the 14th of September 2025 and the Gospel reading on that day was from the Gospel of Luke: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4:18 & 19 NKJV The more we com