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These happened for your sake
12 April 2023
These are the things that occurred for you: for you, God became incarnate; for you, are the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the abolition of death and the hope of the resurrection; for you, are God’s co... 
Holy and Great Tuesday
Elder Petroniu (†) Romanian Skete of the Forerunner, Mount Athos
11 April 2023
Through two parables, Holy and Great Tuesday prepares us for entry into the bridal chamber of our Savior: one concerning the ten virgins and the other the talents. The first compares eternal life to a...
Do we know the identity of ‘the woman fallen into many sins’
Athanasios Moustakis
11 April 2023
On the evening of Great Tuesday, the tropario of Kassiani is sung in Orthodox churches. This is a poetic rendition of an event described in the Gospels and has to do with a sinful woman who showed her...
“The sinful woman hastened to provide myrrh…” – Doxastiko, Matins Great Wednesday
Grigorios Daravanoglou
11 April 2023
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Great Tuesday (Matins for Great Wednesday)
11 April 2023
‘Lord, the woman who had fallen into many sins…fulfilled the task of a myrrh-bearer and, lamenting, brought you sweet-smelling oil before your burial’. The Tropario (Hymn) of Kassiani dominates the se...
Retain it
Saint John the Valaam
11 April 2023
At work and when you’re with other people, try to stand before God in your mind. In other words, keep the memory of God, the feeling that God’s present.
Saint Ivan, Valaam...
Great Week: then and now
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
10 April 2023
Every time Great Week comes round, it brings with it a different feel for life. You think that the whole world’s concentrated on the Church, with Christ at the center. That everything stops with ‘Toda...
Christ’s entry into Jerusalem
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis
10 April 2023
Christ’s magnificent entry into Jerusalem is familiar as being a prelude to the triumphant victory of his resurrection. It’s a portent of the triumph of life over death. At today’s feast, we’re invite...
The great cure-all
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
10 April 2023
When you don’t live with Christ, you live in melancholy, sadness, stress and worry; you don’t live properly. Then all sorts of things go wrong with your system. The body’s out of sorts, the endocrinal...
The blessed martyr Daniela
10 April 2023
This exceptional flower sprang from the ground of Romania in 1967. From an early age, she was very close to God. Whenever she finished at school, she always went home via the church. Her father chided...
