After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum, with His mother and His brothers and disciples; and there they stayed for a few days. The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and Read more…
Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:22-24 Christ is Risen! The Orthodox Read more…
The following in an excerpt from “Eros of Orthodoxy,” translated by Fr. Nicholas Palis and written by Mr. Pantelis Paschou. By God’s grace, we have reached the end of the road, which our holy church established for her spiritual children with the opening of the Triodion. That is, to walk Read more…
About that time Herod the King laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword; and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. And Read more…
He is Risen! Mark 16:6 Christ is Risen! I greet you on this Bright Tuesday sharing the sermon I gave on Holy Saturday evening, just before midnight. In this week of renewal, it is important to focus not on the journey that has ended, but using the Holy Week journey Read more…
Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:22-24 Christ is Risen! Read more…
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light Read more…
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up, after He had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen. To them He presented himself alive after His Read more…
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My word and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. John 5:24 On Good Friday night, most churches will make an elaborate procession outside of the Read more…
An Extra Prayer Team Message on Holy Thursday about a Woman Who Died on Holy Thursday The Story of Eva Cledaras, the woman who died at the same hour as the Lord Here is another inspiring story, that I post every year on Holy Thursday, about another inspiring woman, who Read more…
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 12-13 On Holy Thursday evening, the Orthodox Church celebrates a service called “The Passion of Christ,” or Read more…
Is any one among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Lett him sing praise. Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick Read more…