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The Reception of Christ in the Temple
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios
3 February 2022
Forty days after his nativity in the flesh, Christ was brought to the Temple, in accordance with the established conditions of the Law. Because he was welcomed there by people motivated by the Spirit,...
Symeon, the Last of the Righteous. On the Reception of the Lord
Timotheos, a Priest of Jerusalem
3 February 2022
Since we shall not have enough time to mention the virtues of all the saints, let’s get to know the last of the righteous in this homily of ours. Who was the last of the righteous? The name of Symeon ...
The greatest tragedy
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
3 February 2022
Sanctification is the aim of our existence. We were made to become saints. We shouldn’t forget this. Failure in this endeavor is the greatest tragedy for us.
Elder Moïsis the Athonite...
The Feast of Candlemas. The Reception of the Lord
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos
2 February 2022
Already we’re in the second month of the New Year. And we begin with the feast of the Reception of Christ, on February 2. It’s a very great feast. Christ is received by a man for whom the expectation ...
They suffer as you do
Saint John of Kronstadt
2 February 2022
You demand of others that they remedy their faults quickly, but you’re in no hurry to do anything about your own. The others suffer just as you do. They drag their feet over their sins and passion...
The Feast of Christ’s Reception as Fulfillment of the Ritual of Mosaic Law
Theodore Rokas
1 February 2022
The recent feast, the Reception of the Lord, is the feast which is celebrated exactly forty days after that of His Nativity. The name of the feast in Greek comes from a verb meaning ‘to go out and mee...
On Inequality
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
1 February 2022
Inequality is wiser and is preferable to equality. Inequality was placed as the very foundation of the created world. We should rejoice over this inequality and not rebel against it, because it was pu...
Out of ardent love
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
1 February 2022
Christians patiently take up their cross and don’t complain about God. Humbly, with downcast eyes the bear their own cross to the end of their days, following the Lord, Jesus Christ. They do it fo...
The Reception of the Lord in the Temple (Candlemas)
Metropolitan Nikodemos (Vallindras) of Patras †
31 January 2022
With great emotion, Symeon the righteous holds the divine infant in his arms. His heart is inundated with joy. His gaze is fixed upon the heavens and his lips move devoutly, in the fervent prayer whic...
On those who have no patience
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
31 January 2022
‘Wretched and pitiful are those who have no patience, because it is against them that the ‘Woe’ in Holy Scripture is directed. It says woe to those who have lost patience. So really, woe betide those ...