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Returning the Feast of Christmas: the Incarnation of the Word as Revelation of God
Theodore Rokas
31 December 2021
On 31 December our holy Church celebrates returning the feast of the nativity of our Savior Jesus. If we look at the synaxari for 25 December, it reads ‘On the 25th of this month of December, the birt... 
‘The daughter of unbelief’
Saint Sophrony of Essex
31 December 2021
Modern people have been unable to organize their life in such a way as to have enough free time for prayer and spiritual contemplation of God. And the reason for this is the insatiable passion of ...
The outstretched hand
Saint John Chrysostom
30 December 2021
The moment comes for Holy Communion and you’re about to approach the altar. Believe firmly that Christ is present, the king of all. When you see the priest offering you the body and blood of the L...
‘He Has Redeemed His People’ (Luke 1, 68)
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian
30 December 2021
The coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ into the world is one of the few interludes of joy which tormented humanity has enjoyed over the course of its history. This is illustrated in the angelic tidings o...
‘Come you faithful, let us see where Christ was born’
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
29 December 2021
With joy, exultation and jubilation, the Church celebrates the mystery of the Incarnation of our Savior, Jesus Christ, in the lowly cave, in the manger of dumb beasts in Bethlehem. This is a ‘great an...
Twenty Thousand Martyrs
Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani †
29 December 2021
Today’s sermon, the last of the year, deals with the martyrdom of twenty thousand Christians, whose sacred memory the Church celebrates today. They were martyred in 304 A.D. in Nicomedia, during the g...
Christmas in a Post-Christian Era
Hieromonk Eleftherios Balakos
29 December 2021
And while the messiahs are multiplying in this day and age, in the guise of persons, ideologies, policies or religions*, we see a world wallowing in the mud which it has created itself.
And you ask y...
Just ask
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
29 December 2021
Take all your cares to God. He provides for you. Don’t be feeble and don’t get upset. He who examines the hidden depths of our souls knows your own desires and has the power to fulfil them as he k...
If Easter is the brightest of the Christian feasts, Christmas is the most moving!
Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras
28 December 2021
Dear Readers,
The feast of Christmas has come round again, and, according to Alexandros Papadiamantis, ‘if Easter is the brightest of the Christian feasts, Christmas is the most moving’. In both the...
Vasilopita (Saint Basil Pie)
28 December 2021
The Vasilopita (VasilOpita) is the main custom in Greece for New year. It’s one which we encounter throughout Greece, though naturally with local variations. These are mostly to do with the ingredien...
