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Encomium on the two Great Archangels Michael and Gabriel – 1 Saint Nikodimos the Athonite 8 November 2022 If, my beloved fathers and brethren, I were granted the gift of acquiring one of the tongues which the angels have, as the Apostle of Christ Paul says, (“even if I speak in the tongues of the Angels”)...
‘Where the Shade of your Grace Falls, Archangel’ (choir of fathers from Vatopaidi) 8 November 2022 The monastic life has been called the angelic state, as being the pre-eminent way of imitating and following the life of the angels. Monastics are always striving to live as citizens of heaven. They c...
All about yourself Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi 8 November 2022 Love of the self- that is the irrational love for our body- eradicates loving-kindness. It reinforces and elevates greed. It fractures human nature itself, since each person becomes concerned with...
Faith in the name of the Lord works wonders Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 7 November 2022 Today’s Gospel reading presents two miracles: that of the cure of the woman with the issue of blood, who’d been sick for all of twelve years; and the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus, the head o...
From the other Saint Justin Popovich 7 November 2022 By its very nature, the human soul expands beyond the bounds of this visible, earthly world of ours and penetrates the limitlessness of the beyond. But the same is true of sin. It’s as if the soul...
Great strength Elder Panayis from Lysi 6 November 2022 We should love God and then our neighbor with all the strength we have. We should love strangers and foreigners, even our enemies. When we don’t love other people, in essence we don’t love ourselv...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading – 7th Sunday of Luke (Hebrews 9:1-7) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 5 November 2022 The Apostolic Reading for today is from the letter sent by the Apostle Paul to the Hebrew Christians. In this letter, the Apostle of Christ wants to affirm to the Jewish Christians that Jesus Christ i...
You’re certain Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 5 November 2022   When you love Christ, despite all your weaknesses and the emotions you have about them, you’ve still got the certainty that you’ve overcome death, because you’re in communion with the lo...
Society is crumbling 4 November 2022 This article is taken from a Greek periodical and refers specifically to Greece. However, it is of general interest because of events in Western Europe and the United States. The instances of heinou...
In fact they desire it Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 4 November 2022 The greater the spiritual stature of a person, the less they fear death. We’d say that, in fact, they actually desire it. Not because they hate this life or because they think of the body as a pri...
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