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Encounter with Eternal Life: ‘Whoever drinks of the water which I will give, will never thirst again’ Sotirios Theologou 23 May 2022 Today, Saint John the Evangelist describes for us a very interesting encounter. Before we see the meeting, let’s look at the person who was to meet Christ. The woman whom the Evangelist mentions was ...
Monastic Conversations Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 23 May 2022 Hesychasm is a spiritual phenomenon, the quintessence of the ascetical tradition in the Orthodox Church. Through the practice of hesychasm, the soul of man is ‘fattened’ by the grace of God, it receiv...
It does harm 23 May 2022 We should see each thing in a good way. We shouldn’t see anything bad in other people. Just a look or a sigh can have an effect on other people. Even the slightest display of disappointment can do...
Sunday of the Samaritan woman (John 4:5-42) Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 22 May 2022 This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an a...
Moved by love Saint Joseph the Hesychast 22 May 2022 God is love. And motivated by love, wishing to pass on the wealth of his love, he created all things. Saint Iosif the Hesychast...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman (Acts 11:19-30) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 21 May 2022 For today’s passage from the Acts of the Apostles, we hear about the magnificent founding of the Great Church of Antioch in a period of harsh persecution. After Our Lord’s Crucifixion, the hatred of ...
They make them wretched and miserable Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 21 May 2022 Unfortunately, those who neglect their heart have been deprived of all good things, and fallen into a multitude of wickednesses. They’ve cast off joy and have been filled with bitterness, sorrow a...
Homily for Sts. Constantine and Helen, equal to the Apostles Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 21 May 2022 On May 21st, the Church commemorates two saints with particular gratitude, for the great services rendered to God.  They are St. Constantine, and his mother St. Helen. St. Constantine was born in the...
The last time Saint Porfyrios entered the Holy Mountain Fr. Evaggelos Papanikolaou, Doctor 20 May 2022 The story is told by Fr. Evangelos. As a young man, he often visited the Holy Mountain. On one occasion, after 1990, he was on the caique, the little boat that goes from Dafni to the Lavra. The weathe...
Our Condition and Other People Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 20 May 2022 ‘People benefit from or are harmed by their own condition. Nobody harms other people’ (Abba Dorotheos). The easy answer to the problems of life is that other people are to blame. They don’t understan...
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