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The Resurrection of the Dead Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis † 23 April 2022 We people aren’t only bodies. We also have a soul. Even when the body ceases to exist, the soul continues to live. But without the body, it’s as if it’s naked. When it’s separated from the body, it fe...
The Descent into Hades: from Biblical Reading to Folklore to Mythology Dr. Ilias Liamis 23 April 2022 The ‘after death’ question is one of the most enigmatic and also most awe-inspiring of issues. It’s certain that we would gladly exchange all the knowledge we’ve garnered over the passage of the centu...
The Days of Great Week: Great Thursday 23 April 2022 ‘On Holy and Great Thursday, the divine Fathers, who ordered all things aright, as successors to the divine Apostles and the sacred Gospels, have transmitted to us the tradition of celebrating four ev...
Christ’s Resurrection Saint John Chrysostom 23 April 2022 Really convincing proof of the Resurrection is the fact that Christ, Who was sacrificed on the Cross, showed such great strength that He persuaded people who lived in various different places to disre...
The most important thing Saint John of Kronstadt 23 April 2022 The most important thing in life is zealously to ensure that you have mutual love with other people and that you don’t judge them. Each person will give an account before God, regarding themselves...
The Descent into Hades: from Biblical Reading to Folklore to Mythology 22 April 2022 The ‘after death’ question is one of the most enigmatic and also most awe-inspiring of issues. It’s certain that we would gladly exchange all the knowledge we’ve garnered over the passage of the centu...
Great Friday. Christ on Golgotha! Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 22 April 2022 The fourth evil-doer was Pilate, Caesar’s representative in Jerusalem, who in a sense stood for the whole of the pagan world at the trial of Christ. Pilate looked down on the Jews, and the Jews return...
We should acquire these Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete 22 April 2022 What moves me most is the example of Our Lady. Her humility, acquiescence and silence. An angel came and told her she’d give birth to Christ, God,  and all she said was: ‘Behold, the handmaid of t...
The Days of Great Week: Great Thursday Ilias Economou, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, University of Athens 21 April 2022 ‘On Holy and Great Thursday, the divine Fathers, who ordered all things aright, as successors to the divine Apostles and the sacred Gospels, have transmitted to us the tradition of celebrating four ev...
The Cross and the Resurrection Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th. 21 April 2022 a)  The Cross leads to the Resurrection, Great Friday bears fruit on the bright Sunday of Easter. Sorrow, listlessness and despair make way for the joy and peace of the Resurrection. Without the Cross...
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