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Who’ll take the blame? 18 May 2021 If a soul’s to be saved, we need patience. Because if we aren’t patient with a soul and that person then ties a stone round their neck and jumps into the sea, whose fault will it be? Hieromonk ...
The First-Fruit of the New World Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. 17 May 2021 The Gospel reading for the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women (Mark 15, 43-47; 16, 1-8) relates two important events: the burial of Jesus’ body by Joseph (15, 43-47) and the visit of the myrrh-bearing ...
1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos and the Theology Teachers of the Open Educational Resources Platform “red-religie.ro” 17 May 2021 Dear friends, We are writing to inform you about the 1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos and the Theology Teachers of the Open Educat...
They endure calmly Saint Thalassios the Libyan 17 May 2021 Those who have love, calmly put up with the sorrows and pains brought upon them by their enemies. Be patient in sorrows and pains that are sent to you, because through them you’re being cleansed b...
Even when we keep quiet Elder Tadej Vitovničk 16 May 2021 We can enclose the whole world, if we enclose the atmosphere of paradise within us. Because, if we lose the kingdom of heaven, we neither save ourselves nor anyone else. Those who have the kingdom...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearers (Acts 6: 1-7) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 15 May 2021 Today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles describes the philanthropy of the first Church of Jerusalem. With the election of the seven Deacons, the Holy Apostles demonstrated their care for the poo...
Why were the Myrrh-Bearers the first to hear that Christ had risen? Metropolitan Avgoustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina († 2010) 15 May 2021 And he said to them: ‘Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here…’ (Mark 16,6). When Christ was born, the first to hear of it weren’t the great, t...
They need it Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 15 May 2021 People today, enslaved as they are to the passions and disorientated as regards the meaning of life, have greater need than ever before of escaping this unnatural, abnormal and pernicious. Elde...
It does all sorts of things Saint Mark the Ascetic 14 May 2021 Without the body, the mind does all sorts of things, good and bad. But without the mind, the body can’t do anything, because, before any action, the law of freedom comes into play and the mind dec...
We don’t want the Resurrection Stergios Sakkos 13 May 2021 It sounds harsh, and perhaps the observation that we don’t want the Resurrection will be hard for unsuspecting readers to believe. What blind people wouldn’t want their sight back; what sick person wo...
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