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Do we love them?
Elder Efstratios Golovanski
18 September 2022
If we really loved our enemies as God wants us to, then we wouldn’t feel antipathy towards them and we wouldn’t harbor malice towards them. Instead we’d treat them as our siblings, made in the ima... 
It conceals traps
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
17 September 2022
Let’s become free and not remain in bondage to this hollow life. Let’s give wings to our soul, so that it may soar daily towards God, far from snares and scandals. The evil one is continually sett...
Abortions, the Church and Low Birth Rate
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
16 September 2022
The recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States of America regarding returning abortion rights to the jurisdiction of individual states has re-opened intense discussions on the issue.
D...
It comes to those
16 September 2022
Divine light comes to those who are in darkness, in death. It comes precisely to sinners. God’s power is shown not by making saints out of saints, but by making saints out of great sinners.
Fr....
Much less possible
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
15 September 2022
You can’t wash dirty clothes without water. Without tears of repentance it’s much less possible for the soul to be cleansed and purified of stains and blemishes.
Saint Symeon the New Theologian...
Α Goth Saint: The Holy Martyr Nikitas
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
15 September 2022
Nikitas was born in the land of the Goths and was a disciple of their God-bearing bishop, Theofilos, who took part in the 1st Ecumenical Synod in Nicaea in 325.
Saint Nikitas the Goth, Russian I...
Saint Symeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki (+1429)
George Zaravelas
15 September 2022
Saint Symeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, was one of the most significant figures in the Orthodox Church during the Late Byzantine period and a landmark for Divine Worship. We have very little infor...
‘We venerate your cross, Lord’
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian
14 September 2022
The Universal Elevation of the Precious Cross is an important festal landmark in the ecclesiastical year. On 14 September the whole of Orthodoxy honors the cross of our Lord, Jesus Christ, which we ca...
He’s given the chance
14 September 2022
Once we realize that our own self lies at the heart of all sickness and we obtain a cure, we immediately have specific results. Having been healed, we immediately enter into a proper relationship ...
Sermon on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
14 September 2022
On September 14, the whole of the Orthodox world rejoices as we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: “Behold, through the cross joy has come to the world!” (Paschal prayer)
Three historical ev...
