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Sunday before the Elevation of the Holy Cross (John 3:13-17)
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes
10 September 2023
A week before the feast day of the Universal Elevation of the Holy Cross, the Orthodox Church prepares the faithful through Scriptural readings, prayer and acts of good deeds to celebrate the event of... 
Sermon on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Cross (John 3: 13-17)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
10 September 2023
Today, on this Sunday before the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Lord presents the central theme of the Gospel in a few words: God saves the world from the devil and sin driven by endle...
The Kontakio of the Indiction
Theodore Rokas
1 September 2023
Apart from the saints who are remembered on the day, on September 1 our Holy Church also celebrates the beginning of the Indiction, that is the start of the new ecclesiastical year. Among the hymns fo...
The Grandeur of the Mother of God [3]
Monk Arsenios of the Skete of Koutloumousiou, the Holy Mountain
31 August 2023
If we see that some saints enjoy greater glory than others, this is due to the fact they have even a little bit more of Christ’s humility within them, nothing else. There are saints who have astonis...
Discourse on the Deposition & Veneration of the Holy Belt of Ever-Virgin Mary – 2
Saint German, Patriarch of Constantinople
31 August 2023
And you, All-Pure and All-Good and Most-Merciful Lady, the consolation of Christians, the fervent comfort of those in distress, the immediate refuge of sinners, do not abandon us as orphans, without...
Discourse on the Deposition & Veneration of the Holy Belt of Ever-Virgin Mary-1
Saint German, Patriarch of Constantinople
30 August 2023
Discourse on the Deposition and Veneration of the Holy and Honourable Belt of Our Most Pure Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
Through the Holy Spirit, David, the Prophet and King, sang, “Gl...
The Grandeur of the Mother of God [2]
Monk Arsenios of the Skete of Koutloumousiou, the Holy Mountain
30 August 2023
So humility which comes as a natural result after we sin, especially when these are mortal sins, is one thing, and the humility of Christ is another. For sinful people, humility’s absolutely necessa...
The Beheading of Saint John, the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord – 2
Saint Justin Popovich
30 August 2023
Saint Justin Popovich
Today (29th of August), we also specifically glorify the first Evangelist and Christian Confessor, the first to confess God in the New Testament world. Consider how fearless...
Never at any time
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
30 August 2023
No matter how times change politically, culturally, or socially, people remain essentially the same, with the image of God indelible and untarnished. Since the fall of the first-created, sin and t...
Encomium on the Beheading of the Great Forerunner – 2
Saint Theodore the Studite
29 August 2023
So what did he say to Herod? “You’re not allowed to live with her”. He reminded him of the divine law, as if saying to him: “Look and see what the Law orders you to do. If there are two brothers and...
