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The Rendition of Easter Archimandrite Daniel G. Aerakis 1 June 2022 The Resurrection continues. This is shown by the feast of the Rendition of Easter. The same messages from the night of the Resurrection are also heard at the Rendition of Easter, which is celebrated o...
They can’t understand Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 1 June 2022 People who accept as the sole reality whatever reason dictates through the natural laws and whatever they themselves experience through perceptible life aren’t able to receive the seed of faith in...
Words without flesh Elder Vasilios Gontikakis, former Abbot of the Monastery of Iviron 31 May 2022 Words without flesh, that don’t emerge from life, that don’t deal out pieces of our flesh and our blood which has been shed don’t say anything. This is why, at the Last Supper, the Lord encapsulat...
‘Who is to blame?’ (Sunday of the Blind Man) Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 30 May 2022 ‘And his disciples asked him: “Teacher, who is to blame, him or his parents, that he was born blind’” (Jn. 9, 2). A short time before, the Lord had cured the paralytic at the pool of the Sheep’s Gate ...
Sincerity: abhorrence of pretense Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th. 30 May 2022 Moralism is a typical example of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy taints even virtuous actions and Saint John of the Ladder uses a playful incident in order to analyze this specious side of the spiritual life, on...
Feel the same Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk 30 May 2022 Don’t flatter other people but behave towards them with frankness, as you do with yourself. Behave towards them externally the way you do internally. Whatever your lips tell them, let your heart b...
Sunday of the Blind Man Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 29 May 2022 Today’s Gospel reading describes the healing of a man born blind, and speaks about the Light of life, the Heavenly Light, Christ. God’s revelation occurs in stages as in last week’s Gospel. Both the b...
Saint John Chrysostom: The Sunday of the Blind Man Saint John Chrysostom 29 May 2022 Jesus and the blind man, 6th century sarcophagus, L'abbaye Saint-Victor, France And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who sinned...
He has no need Saint Joseph the Hesychast 29 May 2022 God had and has no need of people. He’s self-glorified and is complete love. This is why he asks nothing of us but love. Saint Iosif the Hesychast...
Who’s to Blame? (Sunday of the Blind Man) Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 28 May 2022 ‘And his disciples asked him, Teacher, who was to blame, he himself or his parents, that he was born blind?’ (Jn. 9, 2). A little earlier the Lord had cured the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda and h...
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