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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...

But it’s impossible Saint Maximos the Confessor 24 December 2021 Love is a good disposition of the soul which makes us prefer knowing God over all else. But it’s impossible to acquire this love on a stable basis if we have a passionate attachment to some earth...

The greatest virtue Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 23 December 2021 I was once part of a group of pilgrims and we were talking to a great Elder, Saint Sophrony in Essex, who asked us which we thought was the greatest virtue. One said: ‘The virtue of love’. ‘No’, repl...

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