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God’s righteousness Dimitrios Mavropoulos, Theologian 24 March 2023 In the Lord’s wonderful Beatitudes, recorded in the Gospel according to Saint Matthew (5, 3-11) as the introduction to the Sermon on the Mount, there are two verses which refer to righteousness as a c...
The Joy of the Annunciation Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 24 March 2023 The Feast of the Annunciation lends a pre-Paschal feeling to Great Lent, during which it always falls. The atmosphere of compunction recedes and gives way to the joy of the great feast. This is why we...
Feast of the Annunciation 24 March 2023 The biblical story of the Feast of the Annunciation is found in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke (1:26-39). The Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary, who was living in Nazareth, and sa...
It brings the final victory Elder Moisis the Athonite † 24 March 2023 The resurrection brings new strength into our life, a new dimension, a fresh breath. It brings a new perspective for the world and the people in it: the final victory over the forces of death and ...
Eulogy by Fr. Christodoulos Papaïoannou for his son, Kyprianos Fr. Christodoulos Papaïoannou 20 March 2023 On 28 February 2023, an appalling head-on collision occurred between two trains south of the Tempe Valley in Greece. The crash involved a passenger train and a freight train and killed at least 57 peo...
3rd Sunday of Great Lent Nikolaos Georgantonis, Theologian 19 March 2023 The Holy Fathers wisely dedicated the 3rd Sunday of Great Lent to the honouring and veneration of the Precious Cross. We’ve already passed three weeks of fasting and struggle, and the precious Cross c...
Taking up our own Cross (Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross) Pavlos Mouktaroudis 19 March 2023 In today’s Gospel, Christ wants to talk to us about the mystery of His passion and the cross. How, through the cross and death, He made human nature, which He had assumed, a sharer in eternal life. Fo...
The Veneration of the Cross Fr. Alexander Schmemann 18 March 2023 The Third Sunday of Lent is called “The Veneration of the Cross”. At the Vigil of that day, after the Great Doxology, the Cross is brought in a solemn procession to the center of the church and remain...
Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 18 March 2023 In the middle of the time of Great Lent, we have the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross. The rubrics for the day begin as follows: ‘Since we, too, are, in a sense, crucified through the forty-day f...
A many-headed monster Saint Dimitri of Rostov 17 March 2023 Pride is a monster with many heads which secretes in its entrails all the passions and all the wickednesses. It’s pride that begets anger, judgementalism, malice, hypocrisy, callousness, blasphemy, be...
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