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Keep Vigil
11 April 2017
Forty days had come to a close. I remember them as one, how the weight of sleep had a habit of overtaking the light of day, how the light of a candle overcame the dark of night. A mother always rememb... 
Sins inhibits faith
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos †
10 April 2017
It’s sin that prevents us from believing, not reason. If you tell atheists to live for six months according to the teachings of the Gospels and they do so, they’ll become believers without realizing...
Self-Willed Pride is a Tyranny
10 April 2017
In Ode 8 of Mattins for Great Monday, we read: ‘Let your authority over other people be different from that of the Gentiles: their self-willed pride is not the order that I have appointed, but a tyran...
The end of the fast and the ‘air’ of asceticism
Nikolaos G. Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
9 April 2017
Having completed the forty days that bring profit to our soul, we beseech You, in Your love for us: May we behold the Holy Week of Your Passion that in it we may glorify Your majestic works and ineffa...
WATCH LIVE the Services of Holy and Great Week
9 April 2017
In collaboration with the website www.agiazoni.gr, PEMPTOUSIA and OCN will provide live streaming on a daily basis of the Services of Holy and Great Week from the church of Ayia Zoni (the Holy Gird...
It’s a trap
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
9 April 2017
Despair and disappointment are the worst thing. It’s a satanic trap to make us lose our appetite for the spiritual struggle and bring us to despair....
The Palm Sunday and the Holy Week
9 April 2017
Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna in Austria talks about The Sunday of Palms...
They change their method
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
8 April 2017
The demons usually fight against us in a particular way, but this isn’t an absolute because they’re well aware that they can achieve our downfall by other means of attack. They usually fight with so...
All work is good
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
7 April 2017
So long as we work for our bread, it doesn’t matter what our job is. Of Adam’s sons, one was a farmer the other a herdsman. All occupations are good, so long as we remain close to God. Saint Paul, i...
