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They detach themselves from the cross
Saint Seraphim Romanchov of the Monastery of Glinsk
28 December 2021
The cross is deadly for those who don’t transform their own personal cross into the Cross of Christ, that is those who moan against divine providence, curse it and surrender to hopelessness and...
Christ – the Only True Gift at Christmas
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
27 December 2021
Christ is the gift of God to man and the gift of man to God, but Christ is also the perfect gift of each man to his fellow.
In Paradise, God was presenting Himself before man as an example for imitat...
‘And creation rejoices’
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
27 December 2021
In Church hymnography, which in essence is a commentary on the Biblical message concerning the salvation of the world, the loveliness of creation is described in a clear and poetic manner, as is its p...
‘Prepare yourself, Bethlehem, Eden is open to all’
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian
27 December 2021
The incarnation of God is the most important event in human history. It was the second intervention by the divine Creator in the universe he made. The incarnation of the Word occurred for the re-creat...
They belong to each of us
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
27 December 2021
Practical repentance consists of the pain, the lamentation and the tears ‘over our former sins’, and the lamentation over the virtues and gifts which Jesus gave us as our inheritance and which bel...
The Incarnation in the Trenches
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
27 December 2021
Christmas 1914. The trenches. A different kind of cease-fire
Today we call it the First World War. Then they called it the Great War. Many European countries were involved in it, in a horrendous conf...
The Birth of Christ: Historical and Theological Facts and how they have sometimes been Distorted (3)
Fr. Sotirios Athanasoulias
26 December 2021
The Nativity Star and the Veneration by the Magi
The event of the Birth of Christ as described in the Holy Gospels was accompanied by supernatural signs, such as the doxology of the angels (‘Glory ...
Emmanuel
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
26 December 2021
It is during these Christmas days that we hear another name applied to the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the name taken from the day of His birth in Bethlehem, and this name is Emmanuel. ...
You won’t feel comfortable
Elder Amvrosios Lazaris
26 December 2021
When you’re in a dilemma, when you have to do something or answer somebody, ask the Lord to yourself: ‘What do you want me to do now, Lord?’. The answer will come straight away and you can say it ...
On the Nativity
Saint Gregory the Theologian
25 December 2021
Discourse 38
I. Christ is born, glorify Him. Christ is from heaven, receive Him. Christ is on earth, be lifted up; sing to the Lord, all the earth and, joining both in one, I say: Let the heavens rej...





