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The Feast of the Transfiguration
Fr. Patrick H. Reardon
6 August 2023
In the biblical narratives of our Lord's Transfiguration it is easy to discern different points of inclusion and emphasis peculiar to each writer. Only Luke, for instance, mentions that Jesus was pray... 
The Death of God and the Transfiguration of Man
Fr. Stephen Freeman
6 August 2023
The Transfiguration, byzantine icon, 12th Century
The story of our creation in Genesis is interrupted. The Divine Council says, “Let us make man in our own image,” and the work begins. But man’s cre...
Not ours
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
6 August 2023
The Lord, who comes and dwells in us, leads us to perfection when we observe his commandments. One of these is that, in our life, the will of God be done, not ours. And this should be done with th...
Lord in the Light… (set to music by Ioannis Koukouzelis. Tone plagal three)
Greek Byzantine Choir
5 August 2023
On the occasion of the feast of the Transfiguration, the Greek Byzantine Choir, under the direction of the late Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Archon Protopsaltis of the Most Holy Archdiocese of Constantin...
What to pass on
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
5 August 2023
We should have goodness and love in our soul. That’s what we should transmit. We should be careful not to be disappointed in people who’ve harmed us, but should just pray for them with love. What...
‘The storms of life…’
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
4 August 2023
‘The storms of life swarm round me like bees round a honey-comb and have taken possession of my heart, while spears of afflictions pierce me’. Thus sings the hymnographer in the Great Supplicatory Can...
Then you gain
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
4 August 2023
When you keep company with a spiritual person, that’s when you gain, when you benefit spiritually.
Saint Efraim Katounakiotis...
How magnificent Our Lady is
Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
3 August 2023
What a magnificent person our Lady is. She shows us the path and provides us with the way to deification, that is, how each of us can attain a state of likeness with God and communion with him. Our La...
‘Make haste to deliver us…’
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
3 August 2023
‘Make haste to deliver us from the multitude of our sins’. Writing in an inspired state of mind, the hymnographer- who represents all the faithful- recognizes the vast number of his sins and transgres...
It’s testimony
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
3 August 2023
Even in their everyday activities, people try as hard as they can to do things perfectly. This in itself is evidence of the potential God has given us to perfect and complete ourselves as psycho-s...
