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The Miraculous Appearance of the Archdeacon, Saint Stephen, in Karyes
Monk Lazaros Dionysiatis
27 December 2022
Our holy Abbot, Archimandrite Gavriil, had gone to Karyes for the Double Assembly which had been called by the Holy Community, and on his return told us about the appearance of the Holy First-Martyr S...
Love them
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
27 December 2022
If you want to achieve that which you want and desire- I mean God’s blessings- and if you want to change from a human being into an angel on earth, love the affliction of the body, accept adversit...
The Incarnation of God, the Good News of the New Testament and the Mother of God
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
26 December 2022
With His incarnation, His humanization, God entered the innermost core of our lives in the most obvious way. He entered our circulatory system, our heart, the centre of everything, the centre of the u...
In the highest degree
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
26 December 2022
If Orthodox believers continue to repent and apply themselves to the pure prayer of the heart, they’ll transform that heart to such an extent that it’ll be receptive to the vision of the uncreated...
On the Nativity of Our Saviour Jesus Christ
Saint John Chrysostom
25 December 2022
I see a strange and wondrous mystery.
Shepherds’ music reaches my ears: not the piping of a plaintive melody, but the singing of a heavenly hymn. The angels are singing. The archangels join in. The c...
There are no words
Elder Panayis from Lysi
25 December 2022
We must always bear in mind the love God has for us. There are no words to thank God enough. He suffered so much for us, for our sins, and this is why we should endure and be patient.
Elder Pan...
The Manifestation of God’s Infinite Love
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
24 December 2022
Christmas, which by God’s Grace we’re celebrating again this year, gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into the mystery of God’s love. His gifts to us are manifold and priceless. The greatest of ...
The Word became Flesh: the inexpressible mystery of salvation
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
24 December 2022
When God, the Son of God, entered the womb of All-Holy Virgin and took flesh from her, He was born a perfect person and perfect God, without confusion. When has anything more important ever happened f...
Saint Eugenia the Abbot
Archimandrite Ananias Koustenis
24 December 2022
Today we celebrate the memory of a great saint, the holy blessed virgin martyr Evyenia. She lived at the time of Decius, in the mid-third century, in Old Rome, the great world power of the time. Old R...
A soothing hand
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
24 December 2022
Faith is a cooling hand stretched out to those dwelling in hell. Apart from this hand, everything else is raging fire. Brainless people who burden themselves with worries are pouring molten iron o...