‘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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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 …

A Taxi Cab Driver in Athens finds out that God is calling him to repent through St. Porphyrios' gift of foresight.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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 LeasureBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

A young man is released from a life-long burden by the Mother of God Source: Fr. Mark LeasureBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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 LightBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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. 1By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

The fervent prayers of a family from Thessaloniki are heard by St. Demetrios and answered.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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 SimonopetraBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

A Pediatrician who doubts the existence of demons is allowed by God to have a first-hand experience. Source: Dr. Anastasia PetridesBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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. AthosBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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 CenterBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

St. Porphyrios appears to two separate people after his death, one in person and one over the phone. Source: Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Oropos, Attika Greece.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

An icon of the Mother of God “The Directress” at St. Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, IL. that began to weep in 1986 has touched the lives of faithful throughout the world. Source: “You Are the God Who Creates Miracles” The Story of Our Lady of Chicago compiled by Fr. Michael S. RoscoBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

A young woman prays to die but St. Nectarios appears to give her hope. Source: This story was related by the woman herself to me and to the parish of Holy Cross in Stroudsburg, PA on the feast day of the Saint.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

A young boy in Greece sees a multitude of Holy Angels but is told by his mother not to speak of it. He finally relates the story to a reporter in his old age. Source: P.M. SotirchosSee the attached prayer from the small compline service.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

A beautiful 3rd Century Martyr appears to a pious 20th Century Priest.Sources: Annunciation Church, Manhattan, NY; Sts. Constantine & Helen Church, Reading, PA; the Synaxarion Vol. 5 by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra; Ασματική Ακολουθία της Αγίας Ξενίας της Θαυματουργόυ εκ Καλάμων της Μεσσηνίας΄and, John Sanidopoulos’ Mystagogy Resource Center…

A Homily of St. Gregory the Dialogist on the good disbelief of Thomas Source: Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion from HDM PressBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

Holy Martyrs who had died five hundred years earlier appear to a whole village around 1960 on the Island of Mytilene and tell the amazing story of their martyrdom, confirmed by the pick-axe and by history. Source: Photios Kontoglou, Dr. Constantine Cavarnos, and others.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

A remarkable priest-monk, Fr. Justinos relates the miraculous protection of the Church of St. Photini at Jacob's Well in 2005 from tanks by the New Martyr, St. Philoumenos. Source: Archmandrite JustinosBy Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

One of countless miracles happening to this day in the Church of St. Nicholas in Beit Jala, Palestine, St. Nicholas "shows up" to show us that he is still with us to hear our prayers. To see the photo referred to, open the attachment connected to this episode.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

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.…

St. Nikolai Velimirovic explains in one of his homilies "why" the Lord would use miracles to reveal Himself and His will to mankind.Source: Homilies of St. Nikolai Velimirovic, Vol. 1By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

Fr. Theodore's account of how he came to be blessed with a small portion of three relics that once were in the possession of St. Paisios.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

The Lord permits a younger sister to appear from beyond the grave to her older sister to ease the pain and resentment the older felt at the passing of the younger.Source: Suffering and Salvation, Fr. Seraphim Aleksiev.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio

The blessed simplicity of a man who kept his faith through many hardships in his life brings about a wondrous series of visits from the Lord leading up to his departure from this life.Source: Asetics in the World, St. Nikodemos Publication Society [Fr. Nicholas Palis]. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to help two Orthodox Christian Presch…

A modern Saint of the Church, St. Nikiforos the Leper, canonized in 2012, is praying for those who are faithfully turning to him during this Coronavirus Pandemic.Source: Saint Nikiforos The Leper & Wonderworker written by Simon the Monk and translated in English and published by the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Theotokos The Life Giving Spring a…

How young priest monk Geronta Aimilianos was transformed by the Uncreated Light of God to become a charismatic holy elder in our times.Taken from an article from the Orthodox Word Magazine 296 (2014) written by Fr. Maximos Constas entitled The Life and Teachings of Elder Aimilianos, parts 1 & 2. Psalm 137:10: “And I said: Surely darkness shall trea…

Fr. Theodore Petrides welcomes you to the first episode and talks about the premise behind the podcast.By Fr. Theodore Petrides and Ancient Faith Radio