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Homily on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing women Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 30 April 2023 When reading the Holy Gospels, one of the most striking things we see is that after the Lord’s Resurrection, His Disciples were not the first to see Him. Instead, it was the women who had anointed Je...

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. The Second Annunciation George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 30 April 2023 Ensconced within the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women is another, greater feast: that of the second Annunciation of Our Lady. The feast of her Annunciation as the Mother of the new creation, as Mothe...

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women Saint John Chrysostom 30 April 2023 One of the most striking features of Christianity is that it is not culture-based. Judaism is Jewish, the Olympian gods were Greek, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism are Indian, Taoism Chinese, Shintoism...

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † 29 April 2023 FEAST OF THE MYRRH-BEARING WOMEN, ST JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND ST NICODEMUS 11th May 1997 In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We keep today the feast of a number of the followers o...

With a caress Elder Amvrosios Lazaris 29 April 2023 God doesn’t have limits; with a touch he puts everything right. If we make a mistake, our guardian angel’s troubled and leaves us alone. But if we say sorry, from the depth of our soul, it returns...

That’s where it lies Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 28 April 2023 Essentially we aren’t going through a crisis of institutions today, but rather a crisis of the human person at all levels of society, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences, as well as in ...

You’ll restrain it Elder Cleopa Ilie 27 April 2023 Do you become enraged and spout bad language or make gestures, as if you were a wild beast? If you take care of yourself, with reasonable thoughts, you’ll rein in your anger, just as a whip tames ...

‘Arise quickly’ Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 26 April 2023 ‘Now behold, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly”. And the chains fell off his hands. Then the ang...

To the utmost Saint Sophrony of Essex 26 April 2023 The greatest pain is to love to the furthest degree. Christ loved so much that he surrendered to a horrific death. The saints are the same. Saint Sophrony in Essex...

Prefigurations of the Resurrection in the Easter Canon Professor Mihaïl Tritos, School of Theology A.U.Th. 25 April 2023 No other text is able to express with such force and fulness the redemptive, existential and metaphysical dimension of the resurrection so well as the incomparable canon by Saint John the Damascan. I...

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