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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...
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.  ...
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