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The Great Martyr Saint Dimitrios
Pantelis Paschos, Professor of Theology
26 October 2022
In a lyrical psalm , the great poet of our Church, the Prophet David, gives the name ‘myrrh’ to the spirit of unity among those dwelling together under the sanctified protection of the Church. They ha... 
Don’t allow it
Elder Gavriil, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Apostle Barnabas
26 October 2022
Never lose your faith in divine providence and don’t allow reverence to be extinguished in your soul.
Elder Gavriil, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Barnabas...
Doxastiko at the Vespers of Saint Dimitrios (Plagal tone 2) – Chrysanthos Theodosopoulos
Chrysanthos Theodosopoulos, Archon Protopsaltis of the Holy Archdiocese of Constantinople
25 October 2022
The Doxastiko at the Vespers of Saint Dimitrios «Σήμερον συγκαλείται ημάς» ('Today we are called'), set to music by Chrysanthos Theodosopoulos in the 2nd plagal tone and sung by Chrysanthos Theodoso...
Means of salvation
Saint Theophan the Recluse
25 October 2022
Health and sickness are both means of salvation, when we use them in the spirit of faith in the fact that God loves and provides for us. The same things are also means of perdition, however, when ...
The holy martyr and apostle James, the Brother of our Lord
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
24 October 2022
Saint James (Iakovos), the brother of our Lord was the first bishop of Jerusalem. He was the first to write a divine liturgy, as it had been taught to him by the Lord himself. This liturgy was later s...
The wiles of the devil
Archimandrite Nikon Koutsidis
24 October 2022
Saint Ilarion the Great was a great ascetic. He lived in Palestine in the 4th century. Among the miracles we read about in his Life is the following.
A certain dissipated young man fell in love with...
More subtle and less apparent
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
24 October 2022
The devil uses three comprehensive deceptions to deprive people of their communion with God. First is disbelief, when people deny the existence of God and his commandments. The second is mistaken ...
Then we’ll gain it
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
23 October 2022
But if we’re inattentive, if we don’t run to the Lord and if we don’t follow him diligently, leaving our sins behind us, as did the tax-collector and later the Evangelist Matthew who abandoned his...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the 6th Sunday of Luke (Galatians 2: 16-20)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
22 October 2022
“It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (verse 20)
What we hear today in the Apostolic Reading, is an address by the Apostle Paul to the Galatian Christians.
Galatia was a Province of t...
They never lose it
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
22 October 2022
The souls of those who’ve become friends with God are at peace, rejoice, and are glad, because they’re able to be in a relationship and communion with him. For such people, the wilderness becomes ...
