Vainglory is a passion that manifests earlier than all the other passions.

According to the teachings of the Holy and Divine Fathers, there are seven main ways through which the soul-losing deceit of devilish visions and illusions enter the mind and the heart of men.

There are two kinds of Communion because the man has a double nature: one is the mysterious Communion of the flaming coal, through which the faithful commune with the Body and Blood of the Lord, and the second Communion is spiritual, through which the believers commune in spirit and mind during the Holy and Divine Liturgy.

We look to God’s creation, we rise with our minds to those unseen, and we strengthen in our holy faith. While we are in the flesh, we see everything “as through a mirror”, that is, through creations, which form the icon, the image of the future beyond the grave.The creation is God’s mirror, which reflects our Heavenly Father’s kindness, mercy, providence, and love for us, the human beings.

The first greatest virtue is to love God. This great virtue manifests in the heart of man through the work of the Most Holy Spirit.

According to the teaching of the Holy Scripture, sin is breaking God’s will, knowingly and willingly.

By witchcraft, we understand the invocation of demonic power, instead of God, to help people fulfill certain human wishes.

Faith in God belongs to the will of man. Faith grows and develops through the will of man, “by our collaboration and cooperation with God”.

Do you see how the old devils are never sleeping, tormenting you again? Do you see how they changed their craft to tempt you?

The inner life of the Church, where man becomes "god by grace" (St. Athanasios the Great) through the reception of the Divine Energies or Grace of God, is centered on the Holy Mysteries. In this volume, Elder Cleopa explains the origins, meaning and purpose of the Holy Mysteries of Baptism, Chrismation, Communion, Confession, the Priesthood, Marriage, and Holy Unction, while also deconstructing the errors of those who misunderstand or reject this life in Christ. Squarely based, as always, ...

A sermon on obedience and receiving a blessing to perform tasks in the monastic life.

An illumined and trustworthy instructor of Christian Truth is hard to find in this age of doctrinal relativity and spiritual insensibility. Thus, when one encounters the wisdom, inspired knowledge of Scripture, and authority with which Elder Cleopa (1912-1998) speaks, it is not hard to distinguish his discerning words from the myriad of opinions bantered about by so many today. As an inheritor of two thousand years of Apostolic Tradition, trained from his youth in the ascetic struggle agai...