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“Let us celebrate the feast of Pentecost” – Elder Stefanos of the Daniilei Brotherhood
Elder Stefanos of the Daniïleï Brotherhood
10 June 2022
The late Elder Stefanos of the Daniïleï Brotherhood (Katounakia, the Holy Mountain) sings the wonderful hymn from Vespers on the Eve of Pentecost. This hymn encapsulates the ‘majestic and great myst... 
It’s very deep
Saint Justin Popovich
10 June 2022
Orthodox sentiment and the Orthodox conscience accept and recognize only the saints as edifiers and teachers; and only sanctity as illumination and true instruction. The hunger and thirst of our ...
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Saint Paisios the Athonite
9 June 2022
Do not abandon your servants who are living apart from the Church. May your love act and bring them close to you
- Remember, Lord, your servants who are suffering from cancer.
- Your servants who ar...
It electrifies and magnetizes
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
9 June 2022
Love the One so that everyone will love you. Not only will people love you, but so, too, will the irrational beasts, because when divine grace goes forth, it electrifies and magnetizes whatever is...
Byzantine ‘International’ Words
Dimitrios Dourtas
8 June 2022
As many people know, the Greek language has served and continues to serve as an inexhaustible treasury for words in other languages. A large number of scientific, literary, technological and cultural ...
In this and the next
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
8 June 2022
Our All-Merciful God wants our happiness in this life and the next. This is why he founded his holy Church: to cleanse us from sin, to sanctify us, to reconcile us to him and to give us the blessi...
They acquire it
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
7 June 2022
Those who observe God’s commandments and live a virtuous life in accordance with his will receive divine grace from him as their inalienable possession. They acquire the divine attributes: love, w...
‘You who fill all things ascended in glory…’
Archimandrite Pavlos Dimitrakopoulos
6 June 2022
The Lord’s ascension in glory and his being seated at the right hand of God the Father is the last act in his life and mission on earth. It’s the end of the concession he made in becoming human and of...
The Choir of the Fathers…
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
6 June 2022
‘The Choir of the Fathers…’
This Sunday, our holy Church honors the 318 God-bearing Fathers who attended the 1st Ecumenical Synod in Nicaea, Bithynia, in 325, and confessed the faith of the Prophe...
Clay and decay
Saint John of Kronstadt
6 June 2022
The flesh loves pleasures, money, luxurious houses and clothes. All of these are nothing but clay and decay, and that’s the way you should look at them. Love, on the other hand, is what you should...
