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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...
Unless you reject it
Saint Isaac the Syrian
25 December 2021
If you have worldly knowledge, you can’t perfectly acquire spiritual knowledge and really feel it unless you reject the worldly knowledge.
Saint Isaac the Syrian...
The Theology of the Feast of Christmas
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †
25 December 2021
The Feast of Christmas today, my Christian brothers and sisters. We celebrate the dogma of our faith, that God became human, a real human person, with flesh, bones, blood and a heart. A person like us...
‘By great poverty, you have filled everyone with riches’ – Wishes from Pemptousia
24 December 2021
‘In your swaddling-clothes you have loosed the bonds of transgressions
And by great poverty have filled everyone with riches, merciful one.
Laid in the manger of dumb beasts, pre-eternal Word of God...
The Simplicity of the Cave
Archimandrite Ilias Mastroyannopoulos
24 December 2021
The essence of Christmas is God’s love, the compliant nature of divine love, God’s sacrifice, the riches of God’s loving condescension towards us.
‘God’ does not mean some indifferent ruler sitting ...
Christmas’ deeper meaning
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
24 December 2021
Every time we stand before the Lord either in prayer or in celebration in Church of an event from the life of Christ, or we are in any other way experiencing the presence of the Lord, two basic things...
The Birth of Christ: Historical and Theological Facts and how they have sometimes been Distorted (2)
Fr. Sotirios Athanasoulias
24 December 2021
The Nativity as a Historical Event
There is absolutely no suggestion in the New Testament that Jesus Christ is an idea or that His Birth is the incarnation of an idea. On the contrary, the claim is...
Christmas Hymns of Descent – Archon Protopsaltis Panayiotis Neokhoritis
Panayiotis Neokhoritis, Archon Chanter of the great Church of Christ
24 December 2021
A katavasia (hymn of descent) is the irmos for an ode in a canon, that is it's sung at the beginning of an ode and the rest of the verses are sung to the same melody. It's also repeated at the end o...
Carols from Kastoria
24 December 2021
What we call ‘kalanda’ (carols) are the songs of praise and goodwill which are sung on the eve of the great Christian feasts and which belong, in anthropological terms, to what we call good luck rit...