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Seeing the gap Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 14 December 2021 Since we’re Christians and want to imitate the life of Christ and to be truly united with him, we should look at how he lived, what he was like and how we are. When we see the gap that separates u...
Patience Sanctifies Nikolaos Voineskos 14 December 2021 Some years ago, a lady sent a letter to the late elder Efraim Katounakiotis, in which she told him that she had the weight of the world on her shoulders and a great cross which she was unable to bear...
The Perfectionist Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 13 December 2021 ‘Don’t, out of vanity or sycophancy, insist on having your own way, quarrelling with and tormenting yourselves and your neighbor, just so that, afterwards, you can hear people saying that nobody can b...
11th Sunday of Luke (excerpts from the Kyriakodromion) Monk Agapios 13 December 2021 If a great king magnanimously laid out a banquet and invited everyone under his rule- young and old, rich and poor- to attend; and if he had prepared all kinds of appetizing, rich foods; and if, when ...
The Sacred Supper of the Bloodless Divine Eucharist Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 13 December 2021 In today’s Gospel reading, we hear the Lord relating the very instructive parable of the great supper, as the Fathers of the Church call it. We know that it was often through parables, that is imagina...
It has a purpose Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 13 December 2021 The life of Christians is defined, it has an aim: the glory of God. That’s what we’re here for. The life of secular people, on the other hand, is vague and varied, because it adapts itself to circ...
They’re committed Saint Maximos the Confessor 12 December 2021 People are dedicated to what they love. They disregard anything that distracts them from it, so that they won’t be deprived. By the same token, those who love God cultivate pure prayer and get rid...
We shall be one Saint Sophrony of Essex 11 December 2021 We ought to be extremely sensitive to the needs of others. Then we’ll be one and the blessing of God will be with us in abundance. Saint Sophrony, Essex...
The Conception by Saint Ann of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 10 December 2021 On 9 December we celebrate the conception by Saint Ann, that is the day when she became pregnant with the Mother of the whole world, Our Most Holy Lady. Although there’s no reference to the person of ...
They suddenly pounce Saint Isaiah the Anchorite 10 December 2021 The demons usually withdraw, cunningly, for a time, so that we become lax, think we’ve overcome the passions and stop being careful. Then they suddenly pounce on our soul and snatch it away like a...
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