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Pentecost: a distinctive feast Archimandrite Eleftherios Balakos 4 June 2023 ‘I shall be with you always, to the end of the world’ (Matth. 28, 20). With these words, Jesus bade farewell to his disciples, at his ascension from the Mount of Olives. His last act is a departure, ...
The Fear of Pentecost Archimandrite Eleftherios Balakos 4 June 2023 ‘…each one heard their own language being spoken’ (Acts 2, 6). As a result of this event, some 3,000 people believed and were baptized. The grace of the Holy Spirit made the word of God comprehensibl...
St. John Chrysostom – Homily on Pentecost (2) Saint John Chrysostom 4 June 2023 Previous post This is the same Holy Spirit Who preached by the prophets, Who gave understanding to the Apostles, Who spoke to people. He was given to them by the Lord, and all their adversaries were...
Sunday of Pentecost Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 4 June 2023 After fifty days from our Lord's glorious Resurrection our Holy Orthodox Church celebrates Pentecost.  This feast day is very important for all mankind, because it is the birthday of our Church.  It i...
They begin to understand Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 4 June 2023 Once God’s grace has overshadowed someone, they then begin to understand the deeper being of human existence. They begin to understand their sinfulness because they’re enlightened by the Holy Spir...
St. John Chrysostom – Homily on Pentecost (1) Saint John Chrysostom 3 June 2023 Let us extol the grace of the Holy Spirit in spiritual hymns, since grace has, on this day, manifested itself to us from heaven. Even though our words are inadequate to express the magnitude of this g...
Excerpt from Homily 41, On Pentecost Saint Gregory the Theologian 3 June 2023 And He was promised by the mouth of Joel first, who said, ‘And it shall be in the last days that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh (that is, upon all that believe), and upon your sons and upo...
They’ll come running Saint John Chrysostom 3 June 2023 We should leave church as if we’re coming from the holiest inner sanctum, as if we’re descending from the very heavens. Teach those who don’t go to church that you sang with the seraphim, that you...
It’s inevitable Saint Sophrony of Essex 2 June 2023 There’s no end to repentance on earth, because the end of repentance would mean that we’d become like Christ in all things. If people follow Christ, it means that they open themselves up to suffer...
The decrepit world was renewed Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 1 June 2023 ‘When, by your suffering and resurrection, you had renewed the world aged by many sins, you ascended into heaven, riding on clouds. Glory to your glory’ (Ode 1, Ascension). Saint Iosif of Thessalonik...
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