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Saturday of the souls Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 20 February 2023 Even though every Saturday is dedicated to the holy martyrs and the departed faithful of the Church, it’s well known that there are two particular Saturdays of the soul: one on the eve of the Sunday o...
How long? Saint Justin Popovich 20 February 2023 The experience of the human race confirms that sin and death are identical, destructive actions of the devil. Through these, the devil keeps sin-loving people in his horrid embrace. For how long? ...
Filotheï, Patron Saint of Athens [2] Fotis Kondoglou 19 February 2023 On the eve of the feast of Saint Dionysios in 1589, she was in the monastery she had founded in Patisia. In the evening, the sisters gathered for the vigil. Some Muslims, who had long been at odds wit...
Sunday of the Last Judgement Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † 19 February 2023 13th February 1972 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to an ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgement. If we p...
They don’t put on airs Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos † 19 February 2023 The whole of the struggle that Christians make consists precisely of this. Not that they supposedly put to death their self, nor that they do various things and praise themselves for them. Christi...
Love as a Feeling and as an Uncreated Gift of the Holy Trinity (Meat-fare Sunday) Vasileios Touloumtsis 18 February 2023 It’s an unshakeable and irrefutable truth that every day of our earthly life is- apart from anything else- another step that brings us ever closer to our biological death. Despite the fact that this i...
It’s worth more Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 18 February 2023 Much faith- few worries. Perfect faith- perfect detachment. Perfect faith- perfect joy. One gram of faith is worth more than a whole load of worries. Christians who don’t realize this and haven’t ...
Filotheï, Patron Saint of Athens (February 19) [1] Fotis Kondoglou 17 February 2023 Saint Filotheï was born in Athens to illustrious parents, the only child of Angelos Benizelos and his wife Syriga. She was called Filotheï when she became a nun, but before then her name was Revoula. ...
It’s not easy Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 17 February 2023 The path of repentance isn’t an easy matter, it’s a process that takes long years of ascetic endeavor. It’s a delicate art and science that you learn, that you absorb from an experienced spiritual...
It’ll be easier Saint John of Kronstadt 16 February 2023 The Church doesn’t hide gloomy reality from you: i.e. that the deadly epidemic of sin has touched and corrupted everyone. In order to be healed, all of its children have wept much, prayed much, be...
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