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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...
Prophet Elijah: Alone against all!
Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani †
20 July 2022
In the ranks of the Old Testament prophets, a special position is occupied by the Prophet Elijah, whose sacred memory the Church honours and celebrates today. In the New Testament, the name of the Pro...
The Gift of Pentecost and the Reproving of the Holy Spirit
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
10 June 2022
The Lord Jesus said that the Holy Spirit reproves the world ‘of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment’, and this is not a reproving unto perdition, but unto life. If the Spirit of God is ‘in all ...