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Samuel the Judge and Prophet (+ Αugust 20) Theodore Rokas 20 August 2023 The Prophet Samuel, the last Judge of Israel, appeared on the stage of Bibl...

Saint John Cassian and Abbas Serenus: Do the Wicked Ultimately Prosper? Saint John Cassian 17 August 2023 How we ought not to despise those who are delivered up to unclean spirits. ...

Did Our Lady give birth to God? Was God born of a woman? Iraklis Filios 15 August 2023 Saint Cyril of Alexandria wrote that the Mother of God sanctified the Holy ...

The Dormition of the Mother of God George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 15 August 2023 In the hymnography of the Orthodox Church, the Mother of God is called ‘god...

The Mystery of the Most Holy Mother of God Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 14 August 2023 ‘Set a rampart about my mind, O my Saviour, for I make bold to sing the pra...

The Dormition: Pascha of the Summer Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist 14 August 2023 In the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom celebrated in the Orthodox...

‘Most Pure Lady, heal me from the ills of the passions…’ Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th. 12 August 2023 Exhausted by the intensity of his struggle against the passions and the de...

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 r...

The Transfiguration: the Start of our Entry into the Kingdom of God Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 10 August 2023 ‘…and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord ...

‘I lie now on a bed of infirmities…’ Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th. 9 August 2023 Pain, sickness and death were not initially part of human nature, as this w...