Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos The Church is a spiritual place where we find communion with God and this is very important. This is why, if you want to be peaceful, if you want to be calm, if you want to find your inner harmony, you have to communicate properly with Read more
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios We often hear in the Divine LIturgy and other Holy Services of the Church prayers and supplications before God that are related to “mercy,” such as: “Have mercy on us,O God, according to your great mercy…”; “ For you, O God, are merciful and love Read more
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous If we consider sin as transgression against the ‘law of God’ rather than an ailment we inherited as children of the first Adam, it’s natural that this will create feelings of guilt. Because, if sin becomes second nature over time, it acquires authority over our soul Read more
Metropolitan Nikodemos (Vallindras) of Patras † With great emotion, Symeon the righteous holds the divine infant in his arms. His heart is inundated with joy. His gaze is fixed upon the heavens and his lips move devoutly, in the fervent prayer which has risen to his mouth at that Read more
In a world filled with fake news—Research — the ‘R’ in CRI — is more critical than ever. While researching Columbus Day, Hank Hanegraaff read countless articles conveying Christopher Columbus as one of history’s greatest villains—far from the hero of…
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos What was Christ’s greatest miracle? Most people would say the raising of Lazarus. But Saint Isaac the Syrian disagrees, saying: ‘Someone who is aware of his or her sins and genuinely repents is on a higher level than a person who raises the dead. Raising a Read more
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian In today’s Gospel reading, we hear that Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town. There was a man there called Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus was a chief tax-collector by profession. This was a job identified in people’s minds with deceit, theft and lies. At that Read more
Bishop Efthymios of Aheloos ‘The Impudence of the Heresies is Defeated’ The phenomenon of atheism arose in the West and became a world-wide movement for which Western civilization paid dearly in the 20th century. Atheism began within the Western Church as a reaction on the part of learned men Read more
The myOCN Community Monday night Icon Series: an alternating live interactive video program series exploring our nature and purpose as Christians, Orthodox Christians and living Icons of Christ. Led by Christina Hanegraaff and Father Dimitrios Lee, this weekly series of presentations and discussions will run from February 1 – April Read more
God wants to Save the Lost Have you ever lost something that you really, really liked? A favorite toy? A piece to a puzzle? A piece of jewelry? Something special from a grandparent? Maybe you searched all over the place for it. And if you found it…do you remember how Read more
Protopresbyter Vasileios Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki A worrying phenomenon of our day, a New Age befuddlement passing as spiritual practice, is the fact that in recent years there has been a heightened interest in and concern with angels in a host of New Read more
The myOCN Community Monday night Icon Series: an alternating live interactive video program series exploring our nature and purpose as Christians, Orthodox Christians and living Icons of Christ. Led by Christina Hanegraaff and Father Dimitrios Lee, this weekly series of presentations and discussions will run from February 1 – April Read more