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The Best I Can With What I Have
Today we think that more is better. What God expects is our best effort. A good motto is, “The best I can with what I have.” Circumstances
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Bearing within Us the Dying of the Lord Jesus
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
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Urgency and Irony
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
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Can You Look Past the Sadness?
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
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Understanding of the Divine Liturgy is necessary
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
The Prayer Team
Choosing to Thrive in My Circumstances: Part I
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.
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Don’t Be Ordinary — Be Extraordinary
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
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We Should Go to the “Church of the Home” Seven Days a Week
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
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In the Likeness of God (Luke 6, 31-36)
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,
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The Primary Activity in a Church Must Be Worship
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
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Passing the Apostolic Torch (2 Cor. 4, 6-15)
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