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It doesn’t make us guilty Saint Theophan the Recluse 2 February 2023 Passions arise in all of us from time to time. Their appearance confirms our uncleanness, but doesn’t make us guilty. We’re guilty only if we give in willingly to any passion, in other words if we...

The Feast of the Reception of the Lord as the Fulfilment of the Rite of Mosaic Law Theodore Rokas 2 February 2023 The feast of the Reception of the Lord (Candlemas, the Meeting of the Lord) which we celebrated recently is held exactly forty days after the Nativity. The name in Greek means ‘meeting’, but not in th...

The feast of the Reception and our spiritual challenges Archimandrite Gregorios Κonstantinou 1 February 2023 At the feast of the Reception of our Lord, the Church urges and encourages us to meet the spiritual challenges we face on a daily basis as part of our anxiety over the cares of life. The entry of Chr...

Then there’s no reason Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 1 February 2023 People of God, who’ve been convinced in their heart that God exists, fear nothing and nobody. This peace of God has enormous social repercussions. When we no longer feel envy, suspicion or fear, w...

Erstwhile events Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 31 January 2023 Every person’s history comprises various phases, some pleasant, others not so. When we reflect on them, it may be that we’d rather some of them hadn’t happened and that, if we were able, we’d alter th...

It’s divided into many Saint Symeon the New Theologian 31 January 2023 There are many paths and ways that lead us into the kingdom of heaven. Or rather, there seem to be, but in fact there’s only one, which is divided into many, depending on the strength and disposit...

Homily 32: What is Orthodoxy? Elder Ephraim in Arizona † 30 January 2023 We’re Orthodox, yet essentially we don’t know the height, depth and breadth of Orthodoxy. We must see it in all its holiness. What is Orthodoxy? Orthodoxy is the truth, the correct dogma concerning G...

The story of the Canaanite woman Metropolitan Serafeim of Zimbabwe 30 January 2023 The Gospel reading for this Sunday tells of a Canaanite woman who asked Christ to heal her sick daughter (Matth. 15, 21-28). The chief elements of the story are the following: First, it appears that...

Epistle for the 17th Sunday of Matthew Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani † 30 January 2023 My beloved Christians, Sanctity is a distinguishing feature and obligation of Christians. Christian means a holy person. And holy means pure, clean, sincere and lambent in body and soul, that is in o...

Without shame Elder Filotheos Zervakos 30 January 2023 If you find the right confessor, go with fear of God, with great humility and confess your sins without fear, without shame. Confess them as if you were confessing them before God, since God’s eve...

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