Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18

Our Life and Death is with our Neighbor

The teachings of St. Anthony the Great. Part 2

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

The real value of your way of life is revealed when one reviles you, humiliates, offends and rejects you and pours out their irritation on you.

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 34

One Doesn’t Forge Iron Carelessly

The teachings of St. Anthony the Great. Part 1

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

St. Anthony was one of the first ascetics to have settled in the desert. Once, having doubts about how he should live in order to be saved, he asked God in prayer: “Lord, what am I to do? How am I to spend my days; how should I live?”

Rating: 9,1|Votes: 131

“Its better to let teenagers be, pray for them and surround them with love”

Archimandrite Andrei (Konanos)

Many ask us priests, “What is your opinion on teenagers?” Around 20 years ago I used to teach high school classes, and I was also asked that question.

Rating: 9,5|Votes: 19

Taste and See That the Lord is Good

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

It’s one thing when someone tells you about God, and another when God Himself tells you in your heart, when He whispers something to you. There’s a huge difference.

Rating: 8,5|Votes: 20

Try to Love Your Enemies and You Will Sleep Peacefully at Night

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

Love is higher than justice, according to the Greek preacher and theologian Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos).

Rating: 9,6|Votes: 25

We Say One Thing, We Think Another

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

One time I asked someone, “What prevents us from having different opinions but still loving one another, from experiencing love for one another? What prevents us from getting along and staying together despite our disagreements?”

Rating: 9,6|Votes: 26

The Blood of Christ Flows In Our Veins

Discourse on Divine Liturgy and Holy Communion

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

Prayer is love for God, and Holy Communion is also love for the Lord, but it is also something much higher, incomparably higher; after all, through Holy Communion we receive divine power into ourselves.

Rating: 10|Votes: 40

“Father, I Want to Start a Family!”

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

I pray to God that you all might find this path and meet the love of your life on it, and that you might walk hand-in-hand with them, and not that one be pulled here, and another there, but that you were both pulled to the East, that is, to Christ! I always pray to God, that you would experience the very greatest miracle—the feeling of God’s presence and love in our hearts and lives!

Rating: 8,8|Votes: 18

I Went to Jerusalem and Saw an Elder There

Archimandrite Andrei (Konanos)

“Oh, Batiushka, this icon moved! And that one is streaming myrrh!” I ask them,“Ok, and what of it? And what happened with you afterwards? Or did you just stand in front of them saying ‘oooh’ and ‘aaaah?’”