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An open window
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
23 May 2023
We’ve said before that God isn’t impassioned, punitive or vindictive. If he...
Let’s open the Triodio with humility
Sophia Bekri, Theologian
10 February 2023
The Church doesn’t leave us without consolation. One feast follows another ...
Open the Windows of the Soul
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
8 January 2023
This year, the Sunday after Theophany coincides with the handing-back of th...
With open arms
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
9 July 2022
The Church has its arms open to welcome us. Let those of us whose consc...
‘Prepare yourself, Bethlehem, Eden is open to all’
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian
27 December 2021
The incarnation of God is the most important event in human history. It was...
1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos and the Theology Teachers of the Open Educational Resources Platform “red-religie.ro”
17 May 2021
Dear friends,
We are writing to inform you about the 1st Digital Fel...
He opened all the gates
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
23 January 2021
Sin tied the wings of Adam and his descendants and so they were all separ...
Keep your mouth open
Saint John of Kronstadt
21 January 2021
Faith is a spiritual mouth. The more freely it opens, the greater is th...
‘Closed Churches Threaten the Faithful; Open Ones Threaten the Viruses’
Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
3 December 2020
We read that, in England, churches are going to be open for Christmas. Amon...
Dimitirios Magouris: ‘Open to me the gates of repentance’
15 February 2020
The pre-cleansing period of the Triodio will bring us to the gates of Great...
The open gates
Saint Arsenie Boca
2 August 2019
Hell is only for those who don’t want to repent and to abandon sin. If yo...
Hymns after Psalm 50 in the Triodio, by Dimosthenis Païkopoulos (Open to me the gates of repentance – The multitude of my past iniquities)
6 March 2019
The period of the Triodio and Great Lent is very important for the spirit...
Open a grave
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
3 February 2019
We shouldn’t be like flies, but like bees, flitting from flower to flower...
Open a grave!
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
6 November 2018
We shouldn’t be like flies, but like bees which buzz from flower to flowe...
Open the window
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
13 September 2018
You’re in a dark room waving your hands about and trying, in this way, to...
No open windows
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
5 September 2018
Let’s not give the devil any justification. I don’t allow myself any resent...
Time to open the door to Him
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
19 June 2018
Christ comes lots of times and knocks at your door.
You ask Him into the s...
Open the window
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
10 April 2018
You’re in a dark room and waving your arms trying to get rid of the darkn...
It closes and opens
Abbess Gavriïlia
26 March 2018
When the door to the cell closes, the gates of heaven open....
Our hearts open
Abba Pimen
24 August 2017
The nature of water is soft, while that of rock is hard. Yet if you suspe...
Open window
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
5 July 2017
We’ve said before that God is not wrathful, bent on punishment and revenge....
Keep your mouth open
Saint John of Kronstadt
3 April 2017
Faith is a spiritual mouth. The wider it’s open, the greater the river of...
The katavasies for ‘I will open my mouth’ – Iordanis Koutsimanis
20 March 2017
As a living continuum of tradition, Byzantine music occupies an important...
He opens our eyes
12 January 2016
God often hides from us the good things we've acquired. But then the one wh...
Advice for PM Trudeau in advance of visit to Turkey: An Open Letter
19 November 2015
Evagelos Sotiropoulos holds a B.A. and M.A. in political science from the ...
Keep the “line” open to God’s endless love
Fr. Cornel Todeasa
11 October 2014
People like to talk a lot. Our cell phones help us to talk anywhere, with a...
The Justice of God in Stages
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
21 June 2024
In the prayer to the Holy Spirit we say: ‘O Heavenly King and Comforter, wh...
International Scientific Conference «POST-HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE»
28 December 2023
POST-HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
International Scientific Confere...
Christmas 2023
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
27 December 2023
Life in the bosom of the Holy Church can be likened to a continuous cycle o...
A chat with Papa-Theoliptos. Love has a face
Ilias Liamis
13 October 2023
‘Father, I don’t love’.
‘Well done’.
‘Well done that I don’t love?’
‘No,...
The Peace of God is a Great Treasure
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
10 October 2023
When we have the peace of God within us and the soul is convinced that God ...
Self-Justification
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
9 October 2023
‘Justifying ourselves, following our own opinion and satisfying our own wil...
The Beheading of Saint John, the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord – 1
Saint Justin Popovich
29 August 2023
Saint Justin Popovich
Today is a little Great Friday, a second Great Frid...
The Spiritual Struggle
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
26 August 2023
1. If somebody isn’t thinking and says something that annoys you, don’t g...
Transfiguration
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
6 August 2023
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
There are blessed o...
They’re extremely tragic (7th Sunday of Matthew)
Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens
23 July 2023
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, we have two events. One is the healing of ...
Saint Paisios the Hagiorite (1924-1994) – 2
Georgios Chr. Efthymios
12 July 2023
At some point, the Cell's door, of the old and poor building, would open an...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the 5th Sunday of Matthew (Romans 10: 1-10)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
9 July 2023
In our reading from the Letter to the Romans, St. Paul lays before us two b...
‘We shall be saved through his life’
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
30 June 2023
‘For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the...
Foreigners
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
23 June 2023
On 14 June 2023, a fishing boat smuggling migrants capsized in internationa...
Listen to your neighbor; see your God
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
20 June 2023
People today have a real need to speak and to be heard. When the most profo...
Second Sunday of Matthew: Christ gives us an invitation and awaits our answer
Sotirios Theologou
19 June 2023
Today Christ gives all of us an invitation which concerns our life and the ...
Sunday of All Saints: do we want to become saints?
Sotirios Theologou
12 June 2023
The Sunday after Pentecost and the time of the Pentikostario has run its co...
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of the Crimea (1877-1961) – Part II
Metropolitan Nectarios of Argolis
11 June 2023
It was also in the ’20s that the “correction” facilities were set up, the...
Encomium on All Saints – Part I
Saint John Chrysostom
10 June 2023
Not seven days have passed since we celebrated the holy feast of Pentecost ...
The Path towards Pentecost and the Last Times
Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis
5 June 2023
The season after Easter is called ‘Pentikostario’. After the victory over d...
Pentecost
Fr. Lev Gillet
4 June 2023
“We celebrate the feast of Pentecost and the coming of the Spirit, the appo...
It’s inevitable
Saint Sophrony of Essex
2 June 2023
There’s no end to repentance on earth, because the end of repentance wo...
An Ottoman Volunteer Defends Besieged Constantinople (1453)
Nikos Nikoloudis
29 May 2023
At the fall of Constantinople, in 1453, it was not only Greeks pitched agai...
They gathered in the church
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
18 May 2023
‘So for a whole year they gathered in the church and taught great numbers ...
Let us keep Christ’s commandments properly
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
15 May 2023
‘Illumined, brethren, by the resurrection of Christ the Savior and having r...
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
14 May 2023
We owe greater honour to the other, as Christ rendered to the Church
In th...
Interpreting Scripture (Confessiones XI, 1-2)
Saint Augustine of Hippo
12 May 2023
Lord, since eternity is yours, is it possible for you not to know what I’m ...
The Feast of Mid-Pentecost
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
11 May 2023
Having gone through Great Lent, we have lived the event of the Resurrection...
Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
Saint John Chrysostom
30 April 2023
One of the most striking features of Christianity is that it is not culture...
Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
29 April 2023
FEAST OF THE MYRRH-BEARING WOMEN, ST JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND ST NICODEMUS
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Excerpt from the Homily On the New Sunday, and on the Apostle Thomas by St. John Chrysostom. [PG vol. 63]
Saint John Chrysostom
23 April 2023
I have come pay off in good time an outstanding debt. I may be poor, but I ...
The Tomb of the Lord (Great Saturday)
Fr. Lev Gillet
14 April 2023
On Holy Saturday the Church directs and concentrates our attention on our L...
Our responsibilities in Holy Week
Metropolitan Avgoustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina († 2010)
10 April 2023
‘The present day shines brightly on the beginning of the Lord’s Passion. Co...
Palm Sunday
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
9 April 2023
4 April 1993
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Today...
Saint Mary the Egyptian as a challenge to greater things
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
3 April 2023
There are Lives of the Saints which, though they may seem exaggerated, are ...
Saint Mary the Egyptian (5th Sunday in Lent)
Saint Justin Popovich
2 April 2023
The 5th Sunday in Great Lent, the Sunday which is the week of great vigils,...
‘Hail, city of the king of all’
Sophia Bekri, Theologian
27 March 2023
Among the many wonderful salutations addressed by the hymnographer to our L...
By the rivers of Babylon: inconsolable home-sickness
Mihaïl Koutsos
14 March 2023
Psalm 136.
By Jeremiah to David, on captivity
1 By the rivers of Babylon ...
‘And not to judge my brother’
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
13 March 2023
It’s a constant exhortation on the part of the Church, all the year round, ...
Three Ways of Approaching the Lord (2nd Sunday in Lent)
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
12 March 2023
In today’s Gospel, the paralytic arose immediately, took his bed upon his s...
The Orthodox Church: come and see
Sotiris Stylianou
6 March 2023
The Gospel reading read in churches on the first Sunday in Lent, on 5 March...
Τhe Τriumph of Orthodoxy
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
5 March 2023
Discourse on the First Sunday of Lent
On the first Sunday of Great Lent, o...
Pre-requisites of Orthodoxy
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
4 March 2023
Today’s Gospel certainly has nothing to say to those who embrace the modern...
1st Salutations
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
3 March 2023
‘I shall open my mouth and it will be filled with praise and I shall pour o...
Division and Content of the 24 Verses of the Akathistos Hymn
Theodore Rokas
3 March 2023
The Service of the Akathistos Hymn is sung at Mattins on the Saturday of th...
From darkness to light
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
28 February 2023
On the eve of our entry into Great Lent, everything in church speaks to us ...
Like a little child
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
15 February 2023
To find consolation you have to strive, to beg with pain, to cry like a...
They’re a window
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
13 February 2023
The present crisis is an opportunity for us to take a sharp look at our...
Sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son [Part II]
Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens
12 February 2023
3. The Tragic Experience of Life “in a far Country”.
In spite and independ...
The Canaanite woman and the Mother of God
Archbishop Christodoulos (Paraskevaïdis) of Athens (1998-2008, †)
29 January 2023
Today’s Gospel is about a Canaanite woman. You heard how she called out to ...
Sin and Sickness: An Orthodox Perspective
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
27 January 2023
One of the most beautiful modern examples of our Church’s precepts says tha...
Zacchaeus, a Moving Example of Repentance
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
22 January 2023
In today’s Gospel reading, we hear that Jesus entered Jericho and was going...
It embraces everything
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
11 January 2023
Our sanctification isn’t achieved through our personal defensive mechan...