Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Today’s Epistle (2nd Sunday of luke) 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 long as there is faith in God and surrendering Read more
Sunday Epistles & Gospels Third Sunday of Luke Urgency & Irony Epistle Reading for the Third Sunday of Luke II Corinthians 6:1-10 Working together with Him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For He says, “At the acceptable time I have listened to Read more
We’ve all heard sad stories, haven’t we? Sometimes things are hard for people, or even for us. In today’s Gospel reading, we hear one of the saddest of all. We hear about a woman whose son had died. She was already a widow—her husband had died. Now her son had Read more
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios 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 and Judea, because they were privileged Read more
One of the keys to life is learning how to thrive in every circumstance, and making the choice to give glory to God in each circumstance.
Don’t Be Ordinary — Be Extraordinary Isaiah 62:11-12 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.” And they shall be called The Holy People, the redeemed
We Should Go to the “Church of the Home” Seven Days a Week “Icon Corner” by Ted ©2011, Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Psalm 88:8(9) Every day I call upon You, O Lord; I spread out my hands to You. In the last reflection, we discussed how the primary activity of
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia ‘Therefore become merciful, as your Father is merciful’. If we read the literature of the ancient Greek sages and, indeed, that of wise people from all over the world, we see that, in their efforts to define what is just, proper,
The Primary Activity in a Church Must Be Worship Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8 The most important thing that happens at a church is worship. Every church has a certain number of people who worship every Sunday. There is another number that worships periodically. There
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos The most prominent ‘torchbearer’ in the Church, Saint Paul the Apostle, lit his torch from the uncreated light of Christ, though he lost his bodily sight: ‘he who is to illumine the world is darkened’, says one of the hymns from his feast-day. God the giver
The Primary Emphasis Needs to Be a Relationship with Jesus Christ “Hearers & Doers” Every one then who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds
SUNDAY EPISTLES & GOSPELS SECOND SUNDAY OF LUKE Stop Obsessing About Credit Gospel for the Second Sunday of Luke The Lord said, “As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even