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‘Forgive me Christ, when You come in glory..’
16 March 2020
Forgive me Christ, when You come in glory to judge the world. Dispel the gloom of my misdeeds, through the prayers of Her who bore You, and make me an heir of Your heavenly kingdom. (Ode 9, Matins c... 
Wretched man that I am!
Saint Paul
15 March 2020
But I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?...
Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
14 March 2020
The progression from the first Sunday in Lent, which is dedicated to Orthodoxy, to the second Sunday, which is dedicated to Saint Gregory Palamas is of double significance: on the one hand it extends ...
You can easily catch evil, like a contagious disease
Starets Parfenij of the Lavra of the Caves in Kiev
14 March 2020
Evil is passed on so quickly, like a contagious disease. If you mix with people who gossip, who slander, who love worldly things, then, without realizing, you’ll fall into the same passions. On the ...
On these Difficult Times
Priest of the Greek Orthodox Church
14 March 2020
Whatever has to do with the spiritual life, whatever we experience within the Church, can be dealt with in two ways: one is not to engage your heart with any of it at all. Everything is formal, theore...
‘Lord, be lenient towards us in this holy season’
14 March 2020
'Lord, be lenient towards us in this holy season. May tears flow to You from the heart, to wash away our spiritual stains and to cultivate Your holy commandments. Fasting worthily in this way, may w...
The virtue of virtues
Saint John the Damascan
13 March 2020
As the God-bearing Fathers say, when the intellect forgets the purpose of piety, then even an action which is demonstrably virtuous becomes useless. And those that are performed without discernment ...
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
13 March 2020
On the 12th day of this month our Blessed and God-bearing Father Symeon the New Theologian departed in peace (Synaxari, March).
Discourse XI: On Fasting
That we should not embrace and zealously obse...
Three New Saints in the Orthodox Church
13 March 2020
Official Communique from the First Day of the Proceedings of the Holy and Sacred Synod
(9 March 2020)
On Monday, 9 March 2020, the Holy and Sacred Synod convened under the chairmanship of His All-Ho...
