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Death is vanquished through the mortification of the passions (3rd Sunday of Luke) Pavlos Mouktaroudis 8 October 2023 From the moment when our first ancestors ‘inclined their ears’, paid attention, to the proposition of the devil that they set aside God’s commandment and eat the fruit which wasn’t blessed for their c...
Idolatry Saint Justin Popovich 7 October 2023 ‘And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. My chil...
Bearing within Us the Dying of the Lord Jesus Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 6 October 2023 Today’s Epistle reading preaches with assurance the paradoxical and antinomical truth that in the life of the disciples of Christ, sorrow and joy, death and life depend on each other and alternate, as...
Understanding of the Divine Liturgy is necessary Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 5 October 2023 The greatest and most blessed event in the history of mankind was the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to earth for His salvific work. Many of us may envy the people who lived at that time in Galilee a...
No-one has found prayer without attention and vigilance Saint Joseph the Hesychast 5 October 2023 So make haste. Say the prayer all the time. Don’t let your mouth stop at all. In this way you’ll become accustomed to it internally and then it’ll be taken up by the mind. Don’t be put off by negativ...
Who says God exists? Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 4 October 2023 (From a letter to a school-teacher and her mother). Both you and your elderly mother are interested in the Orthodox faith. Since you began to fulfil the commandments of fasting, prayer, charity and c...
Life and miracles of St John of Choziba the wonderworker (Nameday October 3rd) 3 October 2023 Saint John came from Thives of Egypt and was raised by a rich family. After he took his monastic order from his grandfather ,he said goodbye to the Elder and went to the Holy Land of Jerusalem. He was...
‘Be Ye in Crucified Love’ Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 3 October 2023 The monk who strives to offer the Lord a mighty love, as He showed unto us, and tries to invent ways to find stronger contact with Christ so that his heart may confess this mighty love towards Him, wi...
Saint John Koukouzelis 2 October 2023 Saint John Koukouzelis, a native of Dirrachia (now Bulgaria), was orphaned in childhood. Endowed with a very fine voice, he entered the Constantinople court school. He found favor with the emperor J...
Love is the Criterion of Faith and Works (2nd Sunday of Luke) Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens 1 October 2023 The Gospel reading for 2nd Luke comes from the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, in which almost all Jesus’ teaching during his public ministry is gathered together, emphasis is p...
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