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The raising of four-day dead Saint Lazarus- a symbol of the general Resurrection
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
15 April 2022
Great Lent has been completed and ends with two splendid festal days. These are Lazarus Saturday, on which we commemorate the raising of Christ’s bosom friend, Lazarus; the other is Palm Sunday, when ... 
Folk Traditions for the Resurrection and Lazarus Saturday
15 April 2022
The Raising of Lazarus
Excerpt from the book by Aikaterina Tsotsakou-Karveli, ‘Λαογραφικό Ημερολόγιο, Οι δώδεκα μήνες και τα έθιμά τους’ (The Twelve Months and their Customs) published by Pataki.
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Friday in Sixth Week
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
15 April 2022
‘Having completed the forty days that bring profit to our soul, we beseech you in your love for humankind: grant us also to behold the Holy Week of your Passion, so that in it we may glorify your migh...
Don’t leave it empty
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
15 April 2022
When people are empty of Christ, a thousand and one other things come and fill them: jealousy, hate, apathy, contentiousness, a worldly outlook and secular joys. Try to fill your soul with Christ ...
Only by those
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
14 April 2022
There can’t be life with Christ, that is, Christian life, without life in Christ, that is, without the experience of Christ in our being with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Moreover the spiritua...
The Three ‘Buts’ of Divine Mercy
Metropolitan Chrysostomos III of Mani
13 April 2022
We’re sinners. The beginning of ode 7 of the Great Canon is absolutely right about this: ‘We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have done evil in your sight; we have not kept or followed what you d...
Wednesday before Palm Sunday
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
13 April 2022
Having strengthened by the power of the cross my mind weakened by wicked attacks, direct me to your will, Lord.
Raise me, Christ, who am sleeping on the bed of pleasures, slumbering in sloth, and sho...
He arranges everything
Saint Theophan the Recluse
13 April 2022
There are more sorrows than joys in the present life. Sometimes God sends them to bestir us from our spiritual slumber, to stop us sinning, or to be cleansed through repentance. Or he may send the...
The Son of Man will be delivered
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
12 April 2022
‘We are going up to Jerusalem’, he said, ‘and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Genti...
They’re like a thick fog
Saint John of Kronstadt
12 April 2022
Secular cares darken the spiritual horizon of your soul. They reduce your spiritual vision like a thick fog and shackle the soul. Be very careful. Leave all your sorrows and cares to the Lord, in ...
