Pemptousia
If Easter is the brightest of the Christian feasts, Christmas is the most moving!
Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras
28 December 2021
Dear Readers,
The feast of Christmas has come round again, and, according ...
Vasilopita (Saint Basil Pie)
28 December 2021
The Vasilopita (VasilOpita) is the main custom in Greece for New year. It’...
They detach themselves from the cross
Saint Seraphim Romanchov of the Monastery of Glinsk
28 December 2021
The cross is deadly for those who don’t transform their own personal cr...
Christ – the Only True Gift at Christmas
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
27 December 2021
Christ is the gift of God to man and the gift of man to God, but Christ is ...
‘And creation rejoices’
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
27 December 2021
In Church hymnography, which in essence is a commentary on the Biblical mes...
‘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...
They belong to each of us
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
27 December 2021
Practical repentance consists of the pain, the lamentation and the tear...
The Incarnation in the Trenches
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
27 December 2021
Christmas 1914. The trenches. A different kind of cease-fire
Today we call...
The Birth of Christ: Historical and Theological Facts and how they have sometimes been Distorted (3)
Fr. Sotirios Athanasoulias
26 December 2021
The Nativity Star and the Veneration by the Magi
The event of the Birth ...
Emmanuel
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
26 December 2021
It is during these Christmas days that we hear another name applied to the ...