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‘You gave eyes, Lord, to the man born blind from the womb’ Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 21 May 2023 (Sunday of the Blind Man) The sixth Sunday after Easter and in today’s Gospel reading we hear how our Lord, Jesus Christ, cured a man who’d been blind from birth. This healing of the blind man was a ...
Saint Helen, my most favorite Champion Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. 21 May 2023 Holy Sepulchre I was just visiting Shepherds’ Field the other day that is the precise location where the angels appeared to the shepherds to share the Good News, that Jesus Christ was born, over two...
Ss. Constantine and Helen James W. Lillie 21 May 2023 At Eastertide, at some undetermined place and year, the Emperor Constantine I made his Oration to the Assembly of the Saints, either in Latin (Oratio ad sanctorum coetum) or Greek (Λόγος τῷ τῶν ἁγίων ...
Whatever makes you feel better Saint John the Valaam 21 May 2023 You know you’re really praying when you feel warmth and contrition in your heart. When you feel you’re of no consequence and you cry to the Lord: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, ...
Who are these people? Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 20 May 2023 Who were the rich who were made hungry? Those who handled their wealth badly, who didn’t live in repentance, exercising the virtues, but selfishly satisfying all their hedonistic passions. And who...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the Sunday of the blind man (Acts 16:16-34) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 20 May 2023 In today’s passage from the Acts of the Apostles, we see two main themes: Satan’s cunning in how he deceives people, and the wondrous protection that God provides to the faithful who are devoted to Hi...
‘Repentance is like lightning’ Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 19 May 2023 I was in the Evangelismos Hospital. I was concerned about my soul’s unreadiness. When my spiritual guide (the late Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos) visited me, I said: ‘I’m praying that God will give m...
The need to make everything simple Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 19 May 2023 The world and our life have become very complex. Most people can’t bear it. As a result, we try to oversimplify things, formulating interpretations, proposals, and solutions that might make sense. On ...
That’s the greatness Saint Isaac the Syrian 19 May 2023 Humble people consider themselves sinful, good for nothing and contemptible. Yet they’re able to touch snakes as if they were mere locusts. When they approach other people, the latter pay attentio...
They gathered in the church Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 18 May 2023 ‘So for a whole year they gathered in the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch’. Throughout the Easter period, we read in church excerpts ...
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