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‘Be Ye in Crucified Love’ Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 3 October 2023 The monk who strives to offer the Lord a mighty love, as He showed unto us, and tries to invent ways to find stronger contact with Christ so that his heart may confess this mighty love towards Him, wi...

Saint John Koukouzelis 2 October 2023 Saint John Koukouzelis, a native of Dirrachia (now Bulgaria), was orphaned in childhood. Endowed with a very fine voice, he entered the Constantinople court school. He found favor with the emperor J...

Love is the Criterion of Faith and Works (2nd Sunday of Luke) Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens 1 October 2023 The Gospel reading for 2nd Luke comes from the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, in which almost all Jesus’ teaching during his public ministry is gathered together, emphasis is p...

2nd Sunday of Luke: What is Perfect Love? Sotirios Theologou 1 October 2023 All the legislation of the world is contained in 13 words of the Gospel reading for the 2nd Sunday of Luke. So simple. So easy. ‘As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them’. We pass tho...

Sermon on the 2nd Sunday of Luke (Luke 6: 31-36) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 1 October 2023 Our Lord Jesus Christ has revealed many wonderful truths, which until then were unknown. Many of these concern our relations with other people, either inside our homes or outside in society. Perhaps t...

Homily on the Apostolic reading for the 1st Sunday of Luke (2nd Corinthians 1:21-24 & 2:1-4) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 24 September 2023 To understand what St. Paul is talking about in today’s reading, we have to remember that in his previous Epistle to the Corinthians, the Holy Apostle severely rebuked the Christians of that community...

Sermon on the 1st Sunday of Luke (Luke 5: 1-11) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 24 September 2023 What should be admired first from what the Evangelist Luke told us today? The people of Galilee, who thirsted to hear the words of Jesus? They filled the shore of Lake Gennesaret as soon as they learn...

Sunday After the Elevation of the Holy Cross – The Form of Redemption Fr. Patrick H. Reardon 17 September 2023 Over the centuries preachers and hymnographers have declared that the shedding of a single drop of Christ's blood – una stilla, wrote St. Thomas Aquinas – would have sufficed for our Redemption. It ...

Sunday after the Elevation of the Honorable Cross: the Three Conditions for our Salvation Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naousa and Kampania 17 September 2023 ‘Let those who desire to come after me deny themselves, and take up their cross and follow me’ (Mark 8, 34). A few days ago, our Church celebrated the universal elevation of the honorable and life-gi...

Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the Sunday after the Elevation of the Precious Cross (Galatians 2:16-20) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 16 September 2023 Today, on this Sunday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross, we are once again reminded of the blessings that our Lord’s sacrifice on the Cross has given us. The Lord was crucified on Golgotha, and it...

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