And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. John 1:14 Christ is Risen! May 15 marks 27 years since my ordination to the Holy Priesthood of the Orthodox Church. As Read more…
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki While the Samaritan woman was talking to Christ, she basically didn’t understand what he was saying. He was talking on the level of eternal life. She automatically transferred what she heard to the level of this transitory life. There Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this Read more…
About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jews marveled at it, saying, “How is it that this man has learning] when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me; if any man’s will is to do Read more…
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.” This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly Read more…
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 Christ is Risen! There are three critical things one must believe in order to be a Christian. The first is Genesis 1:1-3, that God Read more…
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the Read more…
Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and Read more…
The next day, he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who ranks before me, for He was before me.’ I myself did not know Read more…
Read and Download Sign up to receive Orthodoxy Now Magazine Updates. Contents Director’s Message: Experiencing the Beauty of Orthodoxy Through the Arts Are We Giving All That We’ve Got to God? Father Stavros Akrotirianakis reminds us that every new day is a gift from God, and it is up to Read more…
Standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing near, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, Read more…
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it, and proclaim to you the Read more…