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It wasn’t used properly
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
30 October 2022
The sudden death of atheists, unbelievers and the unrepentant is a terrible thing, with dreadful consequences. Because the time given by God to these particular people in this present life hasn’t ...
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Monk Agapios
30 October 2022
Gospel Reading for the 5th Sunday of Luke
From the Kyriakodromion of Monk Agapios, 17th century*.
The Lord said, ‘There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumpt...
Saint Anastasia of Rome
George Poulos
29 October 2022
If it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, then it should have been virtually impossible for the beautiful and glamorous Anast...
False gods
Saint Justin Popovich
29 October 2022
Christ, as God and human person, is the only one who vanquished death, through his resurrection. This is why he’s the true God and eternal life. All the others are false gods. Recognition, confess...
Resistance on the Holy Mountain
28 October 2022
During the Occupation , Fr. Georgios Ayiopavlitis was a gardener and he was inducted into the Resistance. Together with other monks, he assisted Allied escapees, but was betrayed by a Romanian .
He w...
This is what he says
Elder Efstratios Golovanski
28 October 2022
We’re made in the image of God. So it’s not possible to love God and not to love our neighbor. This is precisely what Saint John the Evangelist tells us: ‘If people hate their neighbor but say the...
Our name is Christian
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
27 October 2022
We’re called upon by our Church to remember and ceaselessly put into effect in our lives the name we’ve been given: the general one of Christian and the particular one we received at our baptism. Beca...
Saint Nestor, the Martyr for Christ
James W. Lillie
27 October 2022
We know very little concerning the martyr Nestor, other than that he was a close spiritual brother of Saint Dimitrios. He may have volunteered to fight the giant Vandal, Lyaeus, in order to prevent ot...
We’re fortunate
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
27 October 2022
What’s required in our life is love, worship of Christ and love for other people. We should all be one, with Christ as our head. This is the only way to acquire grace, heaven and eternal life. Lov...
Don’t miss the opportunity
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
26 October 2022
There’s an old Hebrew tradition which tells of an incident from the time when the Jews were still slaves in Egypt. One day a snake bit the Pharaoh and endangered his life. A young Jew, who had a knowl...