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The Veneration of the Cross Fr. Alexander Schmemann 18 March 2023 The Third Sunday of Lent is called “The Veneration of the Cross”. At the Vi...

Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 18 March 2023 In the middle of the time of Great Lent, we have the Sunday of the Venerati...

Charity and Lent Protopresbyter Antonios Christou 14 March 2023 Dear readers, Great Lent is a time of strenuous, spiritual struggle with ou...

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 ...

Christ’s miraculous cure in Capernaum Sotiris Stylianou 13 March 2023 The Gospel extract which is read on 12 March 2023 is from Mark (2, 1-12) a...

‘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...

Saint Gregory Palamas (2nd Sunday in Lent) – A Christian Existentialism Fr. John Meyendorff 12 March 2023 In its opposition to Barlaamite nominalism, Palamite thought is a solemn af...

Saint Gregory Palamas and the Hesychasts (2nd Sunday in Lent) Pavlos Mouktaroudis 11 March 2023 The second Sunday in Lent is devoted to Saint Gregory Palamas (14th century...

The theology of the holy icons [2] Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 8 March 2023 The icon in Orthodoxy teaches the mystery of the incarnation of the Son a...