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No other way
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
1 September 2021
The Lord said we’ll enter into life through many sorrows. There’s no other way than tribulations and sorrows. This was the path trodden by the holy Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Saints and the Righ...
Message from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the day of prayer for the Protection of the Natural Environment (1 September 2021)
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
1 September 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 the Plenitude of the Church
Grace, Peace and Mercy from the Maker of All Creation
Our Lord...
Acceptance of God’s Will
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
1 September 2021
Let’s not fear any delay in a miracle we’ve asked for. It may be better thus. It’s certain that God knows our state much better than we do. God is on our side and the miracles are for us, but his pres...
Saint John the Damascan: the hymnographer of popular theology
Mihalis Athanasiou
1 September 2021
Saint John the Damascan lived between the 7th and 8th centuries and was one of the most well-read and ascetic Fathers of our Church. Verifiable information on the life of this Syrian monk from Damascu...
The White and the Black Veils
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
1 September 2021
There are times when, inexplicably, we feel euphoric, as if our hearts are full. Everything seems wonderful, what’s difficult is easy, problems are overcome. There may be specific reasons that encoura...
He’s cunning
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
31 August 2021
The enemy’s sly and attempts either to abandon us to sin and unrepentance or craftily to bring us into despair through the thoughts we have when we do repent.
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos...
The Soprano and the Miracle of the Holy Belt
31 August 2021
Gina Poulou, who is a soprano with the Greek National Opera, has had the most astonishing experience. When the Holy Belt, the relic of the Mother of God, was in Nea Ionia, Athens, in 2017, she reveren...
Reading the Gospel (2)
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
31 August 2021
Through the prophets and the apostles, the Holy Spirit wrote the word of God and interpreted it through the holy fathers*. Both the ability to record the word of God, as well as the capacity to interp...
Saint John the Carpathian: justly falling into sin
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
30 August 2021
‘Should it happen that a host of coarse thoughts rises up against you and you give way and are defeated, you should be aware that you’ve separated yourself temporarily from divine grace. This is why y...
‘On the beach I experienced one of the most moving confessions… perhaps the best’
Protopresbyter Georgios Christodoulou
30 August 2021
On the beach I experienced one of the most moving confessions… perhaps the best.
Three days before we celebrated the summer Easter, the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God, I met with a...





