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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...
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...
