Signs In Our Times

A young married Nicholas Kossis is brought back from the brink of death by the Lord Himself to dedicate his life to the Holy Priesthood.

‘15-year old’ St. Paisios sees the Resurrected Lord after a crisis of faith. Source: SPIRITUAL AWAKENING Saint Paisios of Mount Athos Spiritual Counsels Vol. II from the Holy Monastery “Evangelist John the Theologian” Souroti, Thessaloniki, GREECE.

St. Dionysios of Zakynthos appears to a young camper at Ionion Village to help her to believe. Sources: Michelle Argyropoulos Costidakis and Fr. Costa Sitaras.

St. Theophan explains how simplicity of heart is necessary to believe in the Lord's miracles contained in Holy Scripture and that continue to happen in the Life of the Church to this very day, while pride in one's own thinking and knowledge blinds us from seeing the Power of God at work in Christ and all around us. Source: Thoughts for Each Day of the Year published by St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood in Platina, CA.

A Taxi Cab Driver in Athens finds out that God is calling him to repent through St. Porphyrios' gift of foresight.

A young teenage girl writes a letter of thanks for the Mother of God delivering her from despair encountering the miracle-working icon of the Kardiotissa. Source: Fr. Mark Leasure

A young man is released from a life-long burden by the Mother of God Source: Fr. Mark Leasure

A spiritual child understands the Grace of God present in his spiritual father. Source: A monk of Simonopetra; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: St. Symeon the New Theologian and his Teaching on the Vision of the Divine Light

St. Nicholas comes to a poor motherless boy and promises to care for him for the rest of his life. Source: Ascetics in the World Vol. 1

A mother keeps her faith and trust in God and gives birth to a beautiful son. Source: Marie Patestas from Sts. Constantine & Helen in Reading, PA.

The fervent prayers of a family from Thessaloniki are heard by St. Demetrios and answered.

The Mother of God provides two large clay vessels full of olive oil to the monks at Simonopetra during the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple. Source: The Fathers of Simonopetra

A Pediatrician who doubts the existence of demons is allowed by God to have a first-hand experience. Source: Dr. Anastasia Petrides

St. Theophan the Recluse explains why the Lord did not do the signs demanded of Him by the Pharisees. Source: Thoughts for Each Day of the Year by St. Theophan the Recluse published by Sretensky Monastery, Moscow and St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, CA.

An elderly monk gives one last call to his brothers before leaving this life. Source: The Fathers at the Holy Monastery of Simonopetra on Mt. Athos

Description: The miracle-working bust of Archangel Michael, made from mud and the blood of martyred monks, continues over a thousand years to reveal the heavenly protection of the Archangel. Source: Μοναστήρια Της Ελλάδας Website; John Sanidopoulos' Mystagogy Resource Center

How the Lord only works miracles, then and now, that are necessary and appropriate for man's salvation. Source:Homilies Vol. 2 of St. Nikolai Velimirovich: the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: The multiplication of the loaves of bread and fish.

The Mother of God makes her presence tangible to the campers at Camp Nazareth in 1988 through 19 tear-streaming icons of her. Source: Fr. John Chakos' article in the book: Appearances and Miracles of the Panagia from the Holy Monastery of Paraklitou translated by John Sanidopoulos.

An amazing reservoir of God’s grace and seemingly endless source of miraculous healings and conversions/affirmations of faith have come from this 9-year long myrrh streaming icon of the Mother of God known as Kardiotissa whose home is St. George Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church in Taylor, PA. Source: Fr. Mark Leasure, guardian of the Kardiotissa.

This miraculously appearing sign of the uncreated Light of God in the form of Holy Fire has been happening for centuries at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Orthodox Christian Holy Saturday.