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Smoothly, until grace comes
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
20 April 2020
If you comply with the words of God and have no regrets in your conscience, and if you’re calm and perform good works, then you’ll gradually feel your way into prayer, smoothly, until grace comes.
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Getting nowhere
Saint Maximos the Greek
19 April 2020
We should realize that, as long as we’re in sin, that is, transgressing against Christ’s divine commandments, we can be as pious as we like, read all the prayers of the saints, the various hymns and t...
The Time, Location and Purpose of Christ’s Descent into Hades, according to Biblical and Patristic Tradition
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
19 April 2020
The time of the descent.
As regards the time of the descent, we can see that Christ’s divine soul descended into Hades immediately after His exclamation on the Cross ‘It is finished’, when His soul w...
Patriarchal Encyclical for Holy Pascha 2020
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
18 April 2020
† 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: MAY THE GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY
OF CHRIST RISEN IN GLORY BE WI...
Through the prism of eternity
Saint Justin Popovich
18 April 2020
For us, Christians, who are illumined and enlightened in Christ, everything in this world has value and meaning only insofar as it’s a means and path to eternity. Because we see what’s not apparent an...
The Dogma of Christ’s Descent into Hades
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
17 April 2020
The descent in the Orthodox dogmatic system
There is evidence for the Orthodox dogma of Christ’s descent into Hades both in Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition, though it is vague and general. Holy S...
Immaterial vs nylon
Saint Paisios the Athonite
17 April 2020
There’s more grace in one of God’s little flowers that in a whole bunch of artificial paper ones.
In the same way, the immaterial differs greatly from the nylon.
» Venerable Païsios the Athonite...
Joy rather than sorrow
Saint Arsenie Boca
16 April 2020
Struggle to live in such a way that at the hour of death you’ll have more joy than sorrow.
Love death as a friend who will bring you closer to Christ
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Take Courage! Why are you Afraid?
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
16 April 2020
As we progress through Holy Week with self-isolation and the various messages or news items concerning the course of the corona virus, I remembered the ‘Gospel of the Testament’. It’s the first of the...
