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The Freedom of the Resurrection
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
21 April 2023
For the Church, Easter is the starting-point of the new creation. Death and decay no longer have a place in the life of humankind and creation, but ‘everything is filled with light: the heavens, the e... 
The Life-Receiving Spring raises a dead man and our Lady supports the church during an earthquake
21 April 2023
Edited by Stelios Koukos
This truly life-bearing spring once raised a dead man. This amazing miracle happened in this way: There was once a man from Thessaly who died, on a boat ,while making a trip ...
Renewal Week, the brightest and most resurrectional week of the year
Protopresbyter Antonios Christou
20 April 2023
My dear readers, CHRIST HAS RISEN! After Great Lent, we entered Holy Week, and after Easter Sunday (the evening of Great Saturday) we’re now into the ‘Rose’ Triodio, that is the period of the Pentiko...
Always out of kindness
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
19 April 2023
When a father sees a child of his being naughty, he punishes them. But when he sees them quailing and baulking at the punishment, he comforts them. This is how our all-good heavenly Father behave...
‘Let no-one fear death; for the death of the Savior has set us free’
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens
18 April 2023
My beloved brothers and sisters, my beloved children,
At this time of the year, we hear the encouraging words: ‘Let no-one fear death; for the death of the Savior has set us free’.
We look forward e...
The Resurrection of Mankind (2)
Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras
16 April 2023
Finally, the Lord’s Resurrection inaugurated and renewed the reconciliation of the imperishable with the perishable; it allowed the entry of uncreated divine grace into the earthen vessel, as of yor...
I Await the Resurrection of the Dead (part 2)
Holy Monastery of St John the Vaptist, Kareas Attikis
16 April 2023
The resurrection of the dead, then, will certainly take place. The angel’s trumpet will definitely sound (Rev. 11, 15-18). What is important for us, however, is that we should have accomplished some...
He can do the same
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
16 April 2023
How beneficial would it be if everyone was moved by the spirit of repentance and prayed in churches? Wouldn’t our loving and merciful God change the current situation? God accepted the repentance ...
The Resurrection of Mankind (1)
Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras
15 April 2023
In the magnificent service on Great Friday, we sang the compelling and wonderful doxastiko from the ninth hour ‘Today he who hung the earth on the waters hangs upon the cross’, which ends ‘we venerate...
I Await the Resurrection of the Dead (part 1)
Holy Monastery of St John the Vaptist, Kareas Attikis
15 April 2023
It’s the event that each and every one of us can be absolutely sure of: sooner or later death will come to us. Yet, for most people, the end of life remains greatly undesirable and is to be firmly res...
