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2nd Sunday of Luke: What is Perfect Love? Sotirios Theologou 1 October 2023 All the legislation of the world is contained in 13 words of the Gospel reading for the 2nd Sunday of Luke. So simple. So easy. ‘As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them’. We pass tho...
Sermon on the 2nd Sunday of Luke (Luke 6: 31-36) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 1 October 2023 Our Lord Jesus Christ has revealed many wonderful truths, which until then were unknown. Many of these concern our relations with other people, either inside our homes or outside in society. Perhaps t...
Homily on the Apostolic reading for the 1st Sunday of Luke (2nd Corinthians 1:21-24 & 2:1-4) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 24 September 2023 To understand what St. Paul is talking about in today’s reading, we have to remember that in his previous Epistle to the Corinthians, the Holy Apostle severely rebuked the Christians of that community...
Sermon on the 1st Sunday of Luke (Luke 5: 1-11) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 24 September 2023 What should be admired first from what the Evangelist Luke told us today? The people of Galilee, who thirsted to hear the words of Jesus? They filled the shore of Lake Gennesaret as soon as they learn...
Sunday After the Elevation of the Holy Cross – The Form of Redemption Fr. Patrick H. Reardon 17 September 2023 Over the centuries preachers and hymnographers have declared that the shedding of a single drop of Christ's blood – una stilla, wrote St. Thomas Aquinas – would have sufficed for our Redemption. It ...
Sunday after the Elevation of the Honorable Cross: the Three Conditions for our Salvation Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naousa and Kampania 17 September 2023 ‘Let those who desire to come after me deny themselves, and take up their cross and follow me’ (Mark 8, 34). A few days ago, our Church celebrated the universal elevation of the honorable and life-gi...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the Sunday after the Elevation of the Precious Cross (Galatians 2:16-20) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 16 September 2023 Today, on this Sunday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross, we are once again reminded of the blessings that our Lord’s sacrifice on the Cross has given us. The Lord was crucified on Golgotha, and it...
Sunday before the Elevation of the Holy Cross (John 3:13-17) Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes 10 September 2023 A week before the feast day of the Universal Elevation of the Holy Cross, the Orthodox Church prepares the faithful through Scriptural readings, prayer and acts of good deeds to celebrate the event of...
Sermon on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Cross (John 3: 13-17) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 10 September 2023 Today, on this Sunday before the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Lord presents the central theme of the Gospel in a few words: God saves the world from the devil and sin driven by endle...
The Kontakio of the Indiction Theodore Rokas 1 September 2023 Apart from the saints who are remembered on the day, on September 1 our Holy Church also celebrates the beginning of the Indiction, that is the start of the new ecclesiastical year. Among the hymns fo...
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