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Word of Father Zacharias for the Mother of our God
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
15 August 2024
‘Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine’ (1 Tim. 5:17). Saint Paul recommends us to honour our Elders and those who ‘la... 
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, which art in all places and fillest all things.’ Then how is itthat, ‘The Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was ...
Christmas 2023
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
27 December 2023
Life in the bosom of the Holy Church can be likened to a continuous cycle of feasts, that is, of the spiritual commemoration of eternal events. The enemy of our souls, the devil, fights against us by ...
Bearing within Us the Dying of the Lord Jesus
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
6 October 2023
Today’s Epistle reading preaches with assurance the paradoxical and antinomical truth that in the life of the disciples of Christ, sorrow and joy, death and life depend on each other and alternate, as...
The Light of Christ and the Transfiguration of Man
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
11 August 2023
The Feast of Transfiguration has a special word for our times, because it reveals to us the glory that God had foreordained for man from the beginning. This is very important because we are living in ...
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, which was at the heart of the Christian preaching, even before the Gospels were written. Some commentators note that all th...
Vespers of Forgiveness Sunday
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
3 March 2023
God longs to receive us as His children into His eternal Kingdom, and for this reason the Church is filled during this period with great grace, which is offered to all people who thirst for a taste of...
The Fulness of Time
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
2 January 2023
The New Testament is not merely different from the Old but brings to the world the incomparable uniqueness of new life in Christ. The Lord came that we may have life and have it in abundance (John 10:...
Sermon on the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
20 November 2022
On the 21st of November, the Church celebrates a special Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her going to the Temple of Jerusalem. As we know from Holy Tradition, her parents Sts. Joachim and Anna were ...
Sermon on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
14 September 2022
On September 14, the whole of the Orthodox world rejoices as we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: “Behold, through the cross joy has come to the world!” (Paschal prayer)
Three historical ev...
