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Saint John The Theologian, Apostle and Evangelist
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
8 May 2023
John was a son of Zebedee, a fisherman, and Salome, the daughter of Joseph, the Betrothed of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God. When the Lord Jesus called him, John immediately left his father a... 
On the Sunday of the Paralytic
Fr. Andrew Phillips, France
7 May 2023
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Today's Gospel of the healing of the paralytic raises a number of questions.
The first perhaps is:
Where does illness come from?
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Sunday of the Paralytic
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
7 May 2023
Today’s miracle of the healing of the paralytic is the third of seven signs referred to by the Evangelist John. During the miracle and its aftermath, Christ’s words, as set forth by Saint John, reveal...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the Sunday of the Paralytic (Acts 9:32-42)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
6 May 2023
Today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles tell us of the great healing of Aeneas, the paralytic man from Lydda, and the resurrection of Tabitha, who was in nearby Joppa.
The Apostle Peter used to...
Evil and the Passions, an Orthodox, Patristic View
Savvas Alexandrou
4 May 2023
In Orthodox Patristic Theology, evil is viewed as a consequence of our submission to the passions, which are inflamed by the demons, abetted by our wicked disposition. In the second volume of the Phil...
St Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury (+605)
4 May 2023
St Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury (+605) is the founder of the Church in southern England, which at that time was almost entirely pagan, though Christianity thrived in the Celtic lands of Ireland...
I have to tell you
Saint John Chrysostom
3 May 2023
Do you want me to tell you whose work those people are doing who leave before the end of the divine liturgy and don’t take part in the final prayers of thanksgiving? What I’m going to say may be h...
They don’t want
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
2 May 2023
Post-modern people have forgotten that their ontological constitution is God-like. They don’t live in repentance. They don’t strive to attain a virtuous condition. Consequently, they don’t want to...
Such people
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
1 May 2023
Those who love the world don’t love God, according to the testimony of Saint John the Evangelist: ‘If people love the world they do not have love for God within them’ (1 John 2, 15). These are peo...
What is it?
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
30 April 2023
Christ won’t love us if we aren’t worthy of being loved by him. In order to love us, he has to find something special within us. You want, you ask, you try, you supplicate and you get nothing. You...
