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The Nativity of Christ: Living Orthodox Christmas
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
23 December 2021
Christmas is before us. How will we choose to celebrate it? And what, by the way, are we actually celebrating?
For Christians, Christmas is the Great Feast of the Nativity according to the fl... 
Christmas can be approached only through faith
Athanasios Moustakis
23 December 2021
‘When Abraham was called, by faith…’
As is the case every year, the Epistle reading for the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ focuses on faith. It consists of two excerpts from chapter 11 of Paul’...
The Spirit of Christmas
Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis
23 December 2021
At this time of year, people often talk about the ‘spirit of Christmas’. But are we all talking about the same thing? I think not. It seems to me that if the ‘spirit of Christmas’ is only the presents...
Don’t give up
Saint John the Sinaite
23 December 2021
When we fall, let’s fight above all against the demon of despair.
Saint John the Sinaite...
Patriarchal Encyclical for Christmas
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
22 December 2021
+ B A R T H O L O M E W
BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME
AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH
TO ALL THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH
GRACE, MERCY AND PEACE
FROM THE SAVIOR CHRIST BORN IN BETH...
‘She will bear a son and you will call his name Jesus’
Metropolitan Serafeim of Kastoria (†)
22 December 2021
‘She will bear a son and you will call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins’ (Matth. 1, 21). With these words, the Angel of the Lord revealed to righteous Joseph the purpose of...
The Real Meaning of Christmas
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
22 December 2021
In a festal atmosphere, with twinkling lights, the giving and receiving of gifts, with parties and food, with everything our consumer society and secularized Christian life dictates, we celebrate Chri...
The Birth of Christ: Historical and Theological Facts and how they have sometimes been Distorted
Fr. Sotirios Athanasoulias
22 December 2021
The Person of Christ at the center of detractions
For Christians, the historicity of Christ is self-evident, as, indeed, it is for all people of good will. According to the very clear testimony of Ho...
As much as we can
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
22 December 2021
As far as possible we should have great kindness, great love so as to get through the trials and tribulations that come upon us.
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of the Odigitria, Portaria...
The Iambic Katavasies of Christmas, (Odes 1 and 3)
21 December 2021
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The Iambic Katavasia is difficult to understand*, because it is written in iambic meter and is a poetic text, with all the difficulties such a text, particularly an ecclesiastical one, presents.
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