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Why don’t the Orthodox feel guilt? Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 25 May 2021 There’s clearly confusion among a good few members of the Church as to how to live, how to behave and what constitutes a sin. There’s also a strong attachment to their sinful past and this increases t...
They walk in darkness Saint Isaac the Syrian 25 May 2021 Proud people walk in darkness and think they’re better than everyone else, whereas, in fact, they’re worse, because they’ve chosen not to walk in the path of God, which is humility. Saint Isaac...
2nd e-Synaxis with Bishop Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and the faithful of St Nicholas & St John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania 24 May 2021 2nd e-Synaxis with Bishop Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and the faithful of St Nicholas & St John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania The subject of homily and discussion: "The healin...
Freedom’s Lair Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis † 24 May 2021 On the evening of Great Friday, we begin the service with a rather strange hymn. It’s a tropario which isn’t mournful but joyful. Not a lament, but a doxology. ‘God is the Lord and has appeared to us…...
Certain and catastrophic Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 24 May 2021 Since we’re fully under the dominion and authority of Jesus Christ, who has made us new, we owe complete obedience to the divine will. So the consequences of our apostasy are sure and swift. But b...
The Word Renews Everything Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 23 May 2021 ‘Lord, the pool did not cure the paralytic; it was your word which renewed’ (Doxastiko, Lauds, Sunday of the Paralytic) Saint Mark the Patmian makes the apt point: ‘Who, then, would be so hard-hear...
On the Sunday of the Paralytic (2) Saint John Chrysostom 23 May 2021 Let us be ashamed then, my friends, ashamed, and bemoan our excessive indifference. Thirty-eight years that man had been waiting without getting what he wanted, but he didn’t give up. And he’d faile...
They provoke a backlash Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 23 May 2021 Don’t choose negative ways of self-correction. You don’t need to fear the devil, nor punishment, nor anything else. They bring about a negative reaction. I have some small experience in this. The ...
Sunday of the Paralytic Saint John Chrysostom 22 May 2021 In a gold-mine, even the most insignificant vein isn’t overlooked, however difficult it might be to work. So, with the Holy Scriptures, you ignore even a jot or tittle at your peril. Everything needs ...
Our noble lineage Saint Gregory the Theologian 22 May 2021 The first, very important thing that shows the need for correct thinking and common agreement is this: imitation of God and all things divine. This is all that the soul created in the image of Go...
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