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‘Dance, Creation, on Hearing of the Birth of the Young Child’ (Kontakio of the Forefeast of the Nativity)
Hieromonk Serapion of Simonopetra Monastery †
25 December 2023
Together with the hymnographer, we wonder profoundly, are at a loss and astonished at the incomprehensible mystery of Christ’s incarnation, which natural time has brought us to celebrate once again th... 
Temptation from the Right
Hieromonk Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos
29 October 2023
‘Right’ and ‘Left’ don’t only have to do with political alignments. The terms were also used to define two categories of temptation in the spiritual life. Indeed, because it’s less perceptible, the te...
6th Sunday of Luke: ‘The Possessed Man as the Fragmentation of the Human Person’
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos
22 October 2023
On the 6th Sunday of Luke, the great Redeemer of the human race, while He was in the land of the Gadarenes, opposite Galilee, relieves, redeems and liberates a man from a terrible threat. The ‘sick’ s...
In the Likeness of God (Luke 6, 31-36)
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
21 October 2023
‘Therefore become merciful, as your Father is merciful’.
If we read the literature of the ancient Greek sages and, indeed, that of wise people from all over the world, we see that, in their efforts t...
‘Here’s to us; who’s like us?’
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
19 October 2023
How often do we do something considered spiritual- prayer, church attendance, fasting, some alms-giving- and think we’ve become ‘Saint Anthony’. Because we compare ourselves… to ourselves. We ourselve...
Reply to mockery with a smile
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
18 October 2023
Their mockery comes from a malicious heart; let your smile be without any badness. Mockery sits well with ignorance; a smile is more suited to knowledge. Through their mockery they’re increasing the v...
‘I had the impression I was surrounded by flames which didn’t burn me’
17 October 2023
(Edited by Stelios Koukos)
- ‘I suggest we pray together, both of us, at exactly the same time. We’ll each pray for the other’.
We agreed and promised. We even set the time for the prayer-10 p.m. He...
Don’t expect the world to get any better
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
16 October 2023
The consistency of the pattern in Christ’s life is a challenge for the rational thinking of people in the world and a reversal of everything they hold to be a constant. Why? Because, having expunged G...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading – 4th Sunday of Luke (Titus 3: 8-15)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
15 October 2023
The Apostle Paul, after being freed from his first imprisonment in Rome, went to Crete with his valued companion, Titus. After a short period of apostolic activity, The Apostle Paul made Titus the B...
The 7th Ecumenical Synod
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios
15 October 2023
Beloved brothers and sisters, when he was speaking one time to the elders of the Church of Ephesus, Saint Paul told them that he was aware that, after he left them, savage wolves would come in among t...
