On this day, the Church offers the precious cross for the faithful to venerate, as it is from the cross of Christ that our salvation begins. Sin died there, […]
Category: Catechisms and articles
On Afflictions, Pain, and Labors
Along the difficult way—that is, in the trial of sickness and so forth—the thorn of doubt, of impatience, of cowardice comes to rend the garment of the soul. What […]
A miracle of St. Nicholas in Kozani
A miracle of St. Nicholas in Kozani (amateur translation from a talk by Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotis of Florina, of blessed memory) «Some say: “‘At that time!’ You make us […]
The Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
With special skills and grace the hymn-writers of our Holy Orthodox Church exalt the event of the Divine Economia through the sacred hymns of today’s great feast, that of […]
Fathers of church about fasting
Beware of limiting the good of fasting to mere abstinence from meats. Real fasting is alienation from evil. ‘Loose the bands of wickedness.’ For give your neighbour the mischief […]
Who made God?
The human mind cannot capture the without beginning and without end of God. God, as God, is infinite in space and time, is without beginning and without end, is […]
Demoniacs then and now
My beloved, you heard the sacred and holy gospel. A small book the Gospel, but it is the most beautiful, most powerful, most superb, incomparable book of the world. […]
But One Prayer is Needful
When I asked if he knew the words to the Akathist hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos – since it is common in Greece for many faithful and monastics […]
How to confront grief?
Grief is coming (Extract from a morning sermon) There are people, who, when they are healthy and their wallets are full, their children are progressing and everything is pleasant, they […]
Before the new testament was the Divine liturgy.
We Orthodox live Christ within the Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy is a work of God. We say: […]