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If confession’s a court, it hands down only innocent verdicts!
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos
3 May 2016
Somebody steals two hens from the priest’s henhouse and after a while decides to go and confess.
‘Father, I stole two hens’.
‘Take them back’.
‘Would you like them?’
‘Me? No. Give them back to the... 
Be patient when someone’s upset.
Saint Abba Dorotheos
3 May 2016
Let's suppose that you can't be merciful through your speech. What you can do, however, if somebody gets angry with you, is to have mercy on them and show them patience at the time when they're upset,...
Whatever you can do
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
2 May 2016
People who seek Christian perfection renounce all their possessions. And those who wish to be saved give alms, in accordance with their means. They avoid misuse of their wealth
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The Date for the Celebration of Easter
Protopresbyter Georgios Metallinos
2 May 2016
Fr. Georgios Metallinos
Despite the fact that calendars and the measurement of time are purely conventional in the Christian conscience, temporal definition has sometimes affected Christian society ...
Discovering the Rich Meaning of Pascha (Easter)
William Bush
1 May 2016
Pascha service
It is impossible to describe the profound, almost visceral shock I received when, as a new convert, I came face to face with my first Good Friday in the Greek parish in London, Ontari...
Celebrating Pascha in St. Nicolas of Lasithi in Crete
30 April 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeskW7dmOMI...
The Meaning of Infant Baptism and Naming
Nektarios, Metropolitan of Argolis
30 April 2016
Baptism in the Ancient Church
In the first years of Christianity and at the time of the persecutions, no-one could be baptized unless they had first gone through the stage of catechism. When someone ...
It continues after death
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
30 April 2016
The Mother of hell is vainglory, which makes a fierce flame and feeds the poisonous snake. Whereas everything else ends with death, it continues to squabble even after death, to show off its nature ov...
«Give to the stranger – Give me this stranger»
Chrysostomos Stamoulis
30 April 2016
I say this because, in poetic thought we find revealed the kernel of a culture of incarnation, of a Church of incarnation, of a spiritual theater of incarnation, where the Other is not like our self...
