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Sermon on the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
20 November 2022
On the 21st of November, the Church celebrates a special Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her going to the Temple of Jerusalem. As we know from Holy Tradition, her parents Sts. Joachim and Anna were ... 
9th Sunday of Luke: ‘A Fierce Condemnation of Greed’
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos
20 November 2022
The ninth Sunday of Luke, and the subject matter of the Gospel reading is again related to the great temptation of the misguided use of wealth. The parable of the foolish rich man is well known but at...
It germinates inside you
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
20 November 2022
Sin isn’t an enemy that attacks you from the outside but the wickedness that germinates and grows within you. As long as you bear in mind the future judgement, no passion and no foul desire will t...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the 9th Sunday of Luke (Ephesians 4: 1-7)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
19 November 2022
Today's passage from the Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians emphasizes the unity of the One Holy Church of Christ. This unity is needed for the baptized members of the Church among themselves, an...
The Foolish Rich Man
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †
19 November 2022
1. I mentioned to you on another occasion, my Christian friends, that our Church, like the caring mother it is, uses this period of winter- when living conditions have always been difficult- to presen...
It’s not written down
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
19 November 2022
There’s nothing about justification in the scriptures. The saints didn’t concern themselves with being ‘right’; they even suffered voluntarily for others.
Saint Efraim Katounakiotis...
He’ll enslave you
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
18 November 2022
Don’t behave towards your neighbor with guile and deceit. Otherwise you’re giving a place in your heart to the devil and he’ll make a slave of you.
Saint Tikhon, Archbishop of Voronezh and Zado...
‘Turn your pain into joy’
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
17 November 2022
It’s said that, in this day and age, there’s a lot of mental and bodily pain. But it’s not only in our own times that we see illnesses, personal rivalries, stress and a mountain of difficulties which ...
Who knows
Elder Efstratios Golovanski
17 November 2022
We have to love sinners, no matter how badly they’ve sinned. Despite their sinfulness, they’re still our brothers and sisters and have the potential for repentance and reform. Do any of us know wh...
Orthodox faith and life
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
16 November 2022
Faith isn’t some vague and abstract theory, a nice ideology or a self-serving religious view. The Orthodox faith is an experience, an ethos, a way of life and being.
Faith means the life of Christ be...
