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Paschal Catechetical Homily of St. John Chrysostom
Saint John Chrysostom
23 April 2022
Whosoever is a devout lover of God, let him enjoy this beautiful bright Festival. And whosoever is a grateful servant, let him joyously enter into the joy of his Lord. And if any be weary with fasting...
Prefiguration of the Resurrection in the Easter Canon
Professor Mihaïl Tritos, School of Theology A.U.Th.
23 April 2022
No other hymnological text expresses the redemptive, existential and metaphysical dimension of the Resurrection with such completeness and power as does the incomparable canon by Saint John the Damasc...
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...