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The ‘likeness’
Saint Diadokhos of Fotiki
23 December 2019
Everybody is made in the image of God.
But the ‘likeness’ belongs only to those who, with great love, have subjected their freedom to God. Because when we cease to belong to ourselves, then we’re lik... 
Wise Words from Saint Porfyrios
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
23 December 2019
When the soul’s in turmoil, it clouds the reason and doesn’t see clearly. When the soul’s calm it illumines the reason which then sees clearly the cause of each thing.
The soul’s very profound ...
Mean spirits
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
22 December 2019
The people who ‘trouble’ God are those who doubt, hesitate, or, even worse, put up resistance to His power and His wisdom.
Our soul shouldn’t rebel and say: ‘Why did God do that; why this not that; C...
Church Tradition: Meaning and Definition
Vasilios Grillas, Theologian
22 December 2019
The term ‘Tradition’ is used in the Church to denote the sum of the truths of the faith which have been preserved orally and passed on to the Church, as a living repository of the experience of its bo...
Not returning evil
Saint John Chrysostom
21 December 2019
Nothing pleases God so much as when we don’t return evil for evil.
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How to Outwit a Proconsul
21 December 2019
Part 2 of an open letter from Tertullian to Scapula, Proconsul of Africa (i.e. the Roman province around Carthage, not the whole continent), who had begun persecuting Christians, sometime soon after A...
The Significance of Christ’s Nativity for Us
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
21 December 2019
The Gospel reading for the Sunday before Christmas is taken from the beginning of Saint Matthew’s Gospel. It describes first the genealogy of Christ according to the flesh and then God’s dispensation ...
Nameday celebration
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
20 December 2019
When you celebrate your nameday, do so with the aim of obtaining mercy from God through the intercessions of your Saint.
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Patriarchal Proclamation for Christmas 2019
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
20 December 2019
✠ Bartholomew
By God’s Mercy
Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
To the plenitude of the Church
Grace, mercy and peace from the newborn Savior Christ in Bethlehem
Belov...
