Religious Life
Great Tuesday (Matins for Great Wednesday)
11 April 2023
‘Lord, the woman who had fallen into many sins…fulfilled the task of a myrr...
Turks and Christians alike saw his martyred body radiating shafts of wondrous light
5 April 2023
Edited by Stelios Koukos
Be that as it may, when the judge realized that ...
The Joy of the Annunciation
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
24 March 2023
The Feast of the Annunciation lends a pre-Paschal feeling to Great Lent, du...
The Joy of the Salutations
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
3 March 2023
The mourning atmosphere of Great Lent is unquestionably lightened by the se...
Great Lent, the Welcome Time – ΙΙ
Symeon, Metropolitan of New Smyrna
28 February 2023
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But the hymnographer also calls Great Lent something else. He says it...
Great Lent, the Welcome Time – Ι
Symeon, Metropolitan of New Smyrna
27 February 2023
“Behold the welcome time,
Behold the time of repentance;
Let us reject th...
Cheese Fare Sunday
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes
26 February 2023
Today, is Cheese-fare Sunday, which sees the closing of the period of Triod...
Saturday of the souls
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
20 February 2023
Even though every Saturday is dedicated to the holy martyrs and the departe...
The Tax-collector and the Pharisee and the Lenten Triodion
Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou
5 February 2023
There is more to Lent than fasting, and there is more to fasting than foo...
Why Is Theophany Important?
Fr. Michael Gillis
5 January 2023
The feast of Theophany (also called Epiphany) is the second greatest feast ...