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A zine to inspire truth seeking and soul searching amidst the modern age of nihilism and despair. What do we mean by: "DEATH TO THE WORLD"?
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"The world is the general name for all passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasures from which comes sexual passion, love of honor gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothing and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancor and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead....
Someone has said of the Saints that while alive they were dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world, and how far you are dead to it." --St. Isaac the Syrian, 7th Century

10/09/2026

“They do not know their sins, their spiritual infirmities, their nothingness without God and before God. Remember the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian: ‘Yeah, My Lord and King! Grant me to see mine own transgressions.’... The same is also true of many learned, rich, and distinguished persons. They know much, they possess much, but often they neither know nor possess the essential.”

—St. John of Kronstadt
My Life in Christ (p. 296)

09/09/2026

Every Sunday after the Divine Liturgy, a handwritten prayer from the 18th century by Hieromonk Dionysius is recited before the icon of St. Anna at St. Anna’s Skete on Mt. Athos.

This wonderworking icon has manifested countless miracles around the world, especially for childless couples.

08/09/2026

THE NATIVITY OF THE MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS / SEPTEMBER 8

07/09/2026

“Diamantia Kouvaras reposed in the depths of old age in 1980 from a stroke. Her grandchildren remember that she never told them fables; always with an abundance of piety she recounted the miracles of St. Joachim. She always said good night to them by blessing them with the sign of the cross, saying, ‘Christ and the Panagia be near you, and Saint Papoulakis at your right hand.”

St. Joachim Papoulakis of Vatopedi
by Elder Joseph of Vatopedi (p. 87)

05/09/2026

NEW EK NEKRON PODCAST (Link in bio.)

Building the Catacomb Church - Episode 3. Truth as Defiance

Today we are going to talk about truth. What does it mean to live in a culture of lies, and what kind of obligation do we have as Christians who are lovers of truth? What obligation do we have in this society to witness to the truth?

We are bombarded with ideas, images, and propaganda entirely foreign to Orthodox life—music, media, movies. It wages war on our life through the various forms of media we are constantly plugged into. This is an ongoing problem priests talk about. For a Christian who only comes to church on Sundays we have them for two and a half or three hours if they come to Orthros. The rest of the week they are in front of a screen living a not-so-Christian life.

“One word of truth outweighs the whole world.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

04/09/2026

“Today more than at any other time the Church and the Orthodox faith are in danger from the impious and unbelievers, the masons and communists, from the false prophets and false Christs, the millenarians, the spiritualists, from wolf shepherds and devious workers of darkness and of delusion, of falsehood and of deception...Today the things which the Prophets, Apostles, and Saints prophesied are being fulfilled. But again the Ruler and Founder of our faith, the Victor over death and over Hades, He who is strong and mighty in battles, the King of Glory, the King of kings and Lord of lords will be victorious and trample upon the enemies, just like the vessels of the potters. He will crush them and annihilate them. While we should stand well, stand piously in the fear of God and not be shaken but as grateful and faithful servants let us struggle, that we may be granted crowns of glory and co-reign with Christ unto the ages of ages. Amen.”

—Geronda Philotheos Zervakos
Paternal Counsels Vol. II (p. 12)

03/09/2026

“We don’t know. It will come upon us wherever we are, whether we are standing, sleeping, or working.

That is how it was in 1940. We were going about our work when we heard the roar of airplanes bombing from above. Shutters were slamming closed, and people were fainting from fear. Some were running to the mountains; babies were screaming. Some lost their mind, others their reason, not knowing where to go. Because they had warned us, we had some idea of where to find shelter. This is how it is now; we are told, but we we do not want to listen. When the time comes, if you are not prepared you will go crazy, not knowing what to do, and you will not even be able to look after your soul.”

—Gerondissa Makrina of Volos
Words of the Heart (Homily 54)

02/09/2026

Blessed Feast!

Fr. Seraphim Rose reposed on September 2, 1982, at the age of 48 at St. Herman of Alaska Monastery.

01/09/2026

“There is always a connection between what happens in the world and the moral state of the people. Even when the moral state is very bad, all the constant earthquakes and famines and everything else remind us that it is the wrong way to behave, and inspire people to behave correctly. Nowadays, the historians say that this is a horribly outmoded way of looking at things, that it is very “quaint” and “naive” and unsophisticated, and that of course nobody can think like that now. They think it’s very cute, in fact, to look at this after all these centuries and to see how people used to think. “But of course,” they say, “we serious historians are looking for the real causes.” By real causes they mean what a person ate and what it caused his feet to do and so forth. The Christian point of view, however, is that these are not the real causes, but the secondary causes. The real cause is the soul and God: whatever God is doing and whatever the soul is doing...”

—Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
In Step With Saints Patrick and Gregory of Tours

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