Saint Ephraim the Syrian While we’re in this life, we have the power and authority from God to break by ourselves the chains of the desires of the enemy, to cast off the burden of our sins through repentance and to be saved, thereby gaining the kingdom of heaven. Read more
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos When people aren’t feeling at their best, what they least want to hear is bad news. On the other hand, what they’re always wanting to hear is a good bit of news that’ll give them a boost and the courage to get on with life. Incontrovertible Read more
In Partnership with Orthodox Pebbles we offer a downloadable printable packet to access the craft templates for children. In the Old Testament, we read about the forefathers of our Lord Jesus Christ. This part of the Bible explains how God the Father promised to the chosen people of Israel to send Read more
In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days He has spoken to us by a Son, Whom He appointed the heir of all things, through Whom also He created the world. He reflects the glory of God and bears the Read more
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos The Sunday before Christmas is full of names. Both in the Epistle, but particularly in the Gospel reading, there are long lists presented of people who preceded the Lord Jesus, and who, despite the variety in their ways of life, are all characterized Read more
Listen now The Doxastiko at Lauds on the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ in plagal tone four (Των νομικών διδαγμάτων [The Accumulated Teachings of the Law]) by the late Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas, Archon Protopsaltis of the Great Church of Christ, performed by himself and his choir at the lectern. Recorded Read more
Listen Now. We will now be including the daily reading of Epistle and Gospel with The Prayer Team. By faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward Read more
Would you like to meet a king? Usually, a king is a king because his father is a king, and his father is too. Being a king goes on down the line. We are getting closer and closer to Christmas, and we are almost ready to celebrate our Lord’s birth! Read more
Evagoras Mahaira Aglaïa was a prosperous woman who lived in the region around Rome in the time of Diocletian and had Boniface as a slave. Bonifatius was her steward, very good-looking in appearance, generous to the poor and kind-hearted, but with a liking for drink and debauchery. They soon Read more
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘Don’t, out of vanity or sycophancy, insist on having your own way, quarrelling with and tormenting yourselves and your neighbor, just so that, afterwards, you can hear people saying that nobody can beat you’ (Abba Dorotheos) There are two ways of carrying out a task: with Read more
Listen Now. We will now be including the daily reading of Epistle and Gospel with The Prayer Team. Figures of the Nativity When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10 Good morning Prayer Team! Today we continue on our study of the “Figures of the Nativity” Read more
Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the Gospel in the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of His own purpose Read more