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A Multitude of Invalids
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
16 May 2022
‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the waters to be move... 
The Life-Giving Word (Sunday of the Paralytic)
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
16 May 2022
The subject of the narrative in the Gospel of Saint John (5, 1) concerning the complaint of the man who’d been paralyzed for 38 years, is genuinely moving: ‘I have no-one to put me into the pool when ...
Everything’s possible
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
16 May 2022
Let’s not make the excuse that we’re weak. Let’s not plead the habit of sin and our supposedly invincible passions. Nothing’s impossible for those who truly believe in the Lord, since for him, the...
Sunday of the Paralytic
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
15 May 2022
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
We have heard today in the Gospel of a man who for thirty eight years had laid paralysed. The only thing that separated him from healing was the...
This idea is widespread
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
15 May 2022
God’s never been our enemy, but we’ve been enemies to him. There’s a common notion in our minds that God’s our enemy and we have to placate and propitiate him, which is why we do a variety of thin...
Sunday of the Paralytic
Saint John Chrysostom
15 May 2022
Excerpt from a Homily by Saint John Chrysostom
If someone’s really knowledgeable about gold mines, they wouldn’t be able to bear not examining the smallest vein for the wealth it contained. So, in th...
What happens to us?
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
14 May 2022
When we partake of the Body of the Lord, we’re nourished all the time by the milk of Our Most Holy Lady, so what happens to us? We become true children of Our Lady, brothers and sisters of Christ,...
Theological Comment on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearers
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian
13 May 2022
The second Sunday after Easter is dedicated to the holy myrrh-bearers, men and women, who took care of the burial of the pure body of our Lord. In this way we honor their exceptional devotion to Chris...
What inconsistency
Saint John of Kronstadt
13 May 2022
Sometimes I’m flesh and sometimes I’m spirit. What inconsistency, what ingratitude, what indolence. What long-suffering on God’s part. For how long will I keep changing, like the moon or a kaleido...
Therein lies the mystery
Saint Silouan the Athonite
12 May 2022
It’s one thing to believe in God’s existence and another thing to be acquainted with him. That’s the strange thing. There are people who’ve known the Lord; there are others who haven’t known him b...
