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Great Week – the Conclusion of the Search for Adam Panteleimon Levakos, Theologian 26 April 2019 ‘You came down to earth to save Adam, and not finding him on earth, Lord, You descended into Hades to seek him’. This verse, from the Lamentations on Great Saturday, states, in a very concise yet apt ...

Between the Silence of Man and the Silence of God Metropolitan Silouan of Byblos, Botris and dependencies (Mount Lebanon) 26 April 2019 Pastoral Letter of Metropolitan Silouan of Byblos, Botrys and dependencies on the 6th Anniversary of the Kidnapping of His Eminence Metropolitan Paul of Alepo April 22, 2013-2019 ________________...

PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICAL FOR HOLY PASCHA 2019 Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 26 April 2019 PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICAL FOR HOLY PASCHA Prot. No. 257 + B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitud...

Nettles Saint Paisios the Athonite 26 April 2019 We’re like nettles. From a distance, they look green, fresh, like a plain or a garden, but when you get close to them and touch them, then you see their ugliness and feel their sting. » Venerable ...

Good from childhood Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 25 April 2019 It seems very difficult to become good, but in fact it’s easy, provided you have good experiences when you’re little. As you grow up, you don’t have to make great efforts, because you’ve got goo...

The prerequisites for salvation Elder Cleopa of Romania 24 April 2019 The Grace of the Holy Spirit, true faith in God, united to all good works and the confession of the name of Jesus Christ are the prerequisites for our salvation. Grace is given to those who belie...

Discernment with children Saint Paisios the Athonite 23 April 2019 Don’t impose on your children without discernment. I tie my tomatoes up with pieces of cloth. If I tied them with wire, it would cut into them. It needs care. Children today have a strong engine, ...

Do we know who “the woman fallen into many sins” was? Athanasios Moustakis 23 April 2019 On Great Tuesday, in the evening, the tropario of Kassiani is sung in Orthodox Churches. This is a poetic rendition of the event described in the Gospels where a sinful woman shows her repentance by l...

Blind evil Saint John Chrysostom 22 April 2019 That’s what evil’s like: it darkens the reason and brings to the edge of the cliff those who’ve gone astray from the right path, even if it’s the first time. Evil really is blind and can’t easily s...

Science and faith meet on the date of Easter Fr. John Parker 22 April 2019 Science and faith so often are pitted against one another. The polarization does not come from one direction or the other alone, but rather often from both sides. Many scientists claim that faith i...

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