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1st Sunday in Lent: Uncompromising Faith Sotirios Theologou 6 March 2023 We’ve been living in a penitential period since last Sunday and have taken part in the first services of Holy and Great Lent (Great Compline, Presanctified, Salutations). Today, we’re celebrating the...
All tangled up Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos † 6 March 2023 When our inner person’s a tangled mess, we have to do everything so that, with God’s help, we can sort ourselves out. If that’s not possible, then let’s break it off and cast it out of our soul, s...
Sunday of Orthodoxy Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 5 March 2023 On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is to say the feast of the restitution of the holy icons, as the Church once again, by the grace of God, vanquished the heresy o...
It can’t resist Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 5 March 2023 The thing that fortifies the mind in our struggle is a permanent inclination towards repentance and the constant invocation of the divine name, as in the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me...
Τhe Τriumph of Orthodoxy Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea 5 March 2023 Discourse on the First Sunday of Lent On the first Sunday of Great Lent, our Holy Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, of the correct faith, which trampled down all heresies and has been estab...
Pre-requisites of Orthodoxy Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos 4 March 2023 Today’s Gospel certainly has nothing to say to those who embrace the modern ‘gospels’ of self-salvation, which derive from the demonic ‘gospel of the serpent’: ‘You can become gods without God’. The w...
An act of praise Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou † 4 March 2023 Worship isn’t restricted to a few prayers of thanks which we address to God for his gifts or particular requests for our salvation, health and security. Rather, it becomes a continuous disposition...
1st Salutations Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 3 March 2023 ‘I shall open my mouth and it will be filled with praise and I shall pour out words to the Queen and Mother; I shall be seen radiantly keeping the festival and shall joyfully sing her wonders’ (irmos,...
Vespers of Forgiveness Sunday Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 3 March 2023 God longs to receive us as His children into His eternal Kingdom, and for this reason the Church is filled during this period with great grace, which is offered to all people who thirst for a taste of...
Saint Nikolaos Planas: the blessed priest Lambros Skontzos, Theologian 3 March 2023 On March 2, the Church celebrates the memory of a modern saint, Saint Nikolaos Planas. He was a rare clerical figure who shone brightly in Attica in the last century and is the boast and model of the ...
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