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Saint Andrew, Christ’s First-Called Disciple
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
30 November 2022
Andrew the Apostle was one of Christ’s twelve disciples. He came from Bethsaida, a town located on the western bank of Lake Tiberias. He worked in the family business run by his father, Jonah, which w... 
But we?
Elder Panayis from Lysi
30 November 2022
The demons don’t squabble among themselves. They help each other. When one of the demons is in difficulties, he calls upon the others: ‘You and you, come and help me’, and they respond a...
The new person
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
29 November 2022
‘For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. Hi...
It debases and destroys
Saint Justin Popovich
29 November 2022
Sin is the only ‘unnatural’ thing in human nature and that of the world. Alien, foreign, extraneous, criminal, murderous and lethal- that’s what sin is in each of us. But in its destructive force,...
The transcendent as the objective of the Christian life
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos
28 November 2022
Thirteenth Sunday of Luke and Jesus Christ teaches us how we can gain eternal life. The occasion for what today’s Gospel reading teaches us is provided by a Jew who appears to have been a most diligen...
It’s not the result of study
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
28 November 2022
Remembrance of God nourishes and increases love for him and for our neighbors, because, as Saint Gregory Palamas emphasizes in his homilies, love for others is a concomitant of love for God. Illum...
The Rich Young Man Meets with Christ (Luke 18:18-30)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
27 November 2022
In our quiet expectation of the great feast of Christmas, ‘the metropolitan of feasts’, the Gospel readings of this period revolve around the burning question: ‘What shall I do to inherit eternal life...
He gives hope
27 November 2022
Our merciful God gives us hope of forgiveness if we repent with contrition and if we take a firm decision not to repeat our past sins, which sadden him.
Saint Theophan the Recluse...
Inalienable joy
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
26 November 2022
It’s particularly tragic that we aren’t appreciative enough of the tremendous event of the resurrection, which is an astonishing message of freedom and a declaration of joy. It liberates us from t...
The Soul of A Christian
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
25 November 2022
The soul of a Christian should be delicate, sensitive and emotional. It should take wings, live dreams, fly into infinity, into the stars, into God’s majesty, into silence.
If it wants to be Christia...
