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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 ... 
Indescribable consolatio
Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis
11 August 2023
Just the mention in our prayers of the most holy name of God, our most holy Lady, the Mother of God, the martyrs and the saints brings great joy, indescribable consolation and peace to the heart.
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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 and Savior Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 1, 11).
The feast of the Transfiguration, largely forgotten as regards much of our secular...
Let’s return
10 August 2023
Since we sinned in practice, denied Christ in practice, offended and betrayed him in practice, let’s now turn back to him in practice and prove that we won’t any longer bend the knee before any id...
‘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 was created by God. They’re the product of the ancestral sin. This is why, in order to abolish these consequences of sin, Jesu...
It’s a common effort
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
9 August 2023
When people properly enter the spiritual life, from the very first moment the light of God’s hope begins to shine in them. But there’s certainly a journey involved and that journey requires an eff...
His transfiguration is our transfiguration
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
8 August 2023
Shortly before Christ ascended the cross, he took Peter and James and John up onto a high mountain and was transfigured before them.
Two features are woven into the fabric of the event of the transfi...
It happens gradually
Abba Dorotheos
8 August 2023
So what if I say something or think something? Fine, but one word brings another, and one thought brings another, and one concession brings another and so, gradually, we become subject to the pass...
‘Had you not shielded and interceded for us…’
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
7 August 2023
‘We, though unworthy, never cease from telling your mighty works, Mother of God; for had you not shielded us and interceded for us, who would have delivered us from such dangers’. We raise our voices ...
You’ll certainly find
Elder Cleopa Ilie
7 August 2023
Examine yourself constantly, in case you’ve sinned in thought, in case you spoke too quickly and erred in some way, in case your deeds aren’t in tune with God’s will. And if, from this self-examin...
