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Saint Catherine and the Smart Impious
James W. Lillie
25 November 2022
What are we to make of Saint Catherine? We know really very little about her. Even her name is a mystery. According to some, she was originally called Damiani (by a happy coincidence the present Archb... 
“No Saint was loved in the West more than St Catherine”
25 November 2022
Sinai became widely known, particularly in Europe, with the spreading of the fame and cult of St. Catherine. Symeon Metaphrastes contributed greatly in making the life of the Saint known to the laity ...
Extinguish it
Elder Panayis from Lysi
25 November 2022
Weep and mourn in order to wash away your sins, to cleanse the filth of your soul, to recover from spiritual blindness, to drown the notional pursuer, Pharaoh, in the sea of your tears, to extingu...
Two paths
Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians
24 November 2022
At our birth, we set out on two journeys in life: the biological, here on earth, and the one which leads to heaven. We start off on these two parallel courses which we follow whether we want to or not...
Here’s a gift for you
Elder Panayis from Lysi
24 November 2022
God forgives easily, because he loves us and wants our salvation. ‘Here’s a gift for you’, he says. He’s prepared to forgive our debt. He sacrificed himself for the sake of our salvation, even tho...
It guides them
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
23 November 2022
When people are in touch with the cathartic, uncreated energy of God, they feel divine grace as ‘consuming fire’. It guides them to the acquisition of divine zeal so that they carry out God’s comm...
The Feast of the Entry of Our Lady the Mother of God
Metropolitan Serafeim of Zimbabwe
22 November 2022
The feast of the Entry of our Lady connects us to God’s providence and Christ’s salvation of humanity and of the whole of God’s creation.
The plan of divine dispensation for our salvation, however, a...
It’s human
Saint John of the Ladder
22 November 2022
It’s human for people to fall into sin. But if they persist in remaining under the sway of sin, that isn’t human but satanic.
Saint John of the Ladder...
The Entrance into the Temple
Fr. Alexander Schmemann
21 November 2022
It seems thousands of years removed from us, but it was not so very long ago that life was marked out by religious feasts. Although everyone went to church, not everyone, of course, knew the exact con...
It doesn’t have a law
Elder Theodosios Damvakerakis
21 November 2022
People have to make sure they do good as long as they live. Do good; good doesn’t have a law. You’re going to die tomorrow? Do some good. Say a prayer. Say you’re going to die tomorrow: plant a co...
