Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. Psalm 115 Read more
Are we living in the last days? Many people point to the deluge of disorder and division in the world today as evidence that we are living in the last days. However, this is often the result of sacred scripture being taken out of context….
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Question: If Christ has come and has made us a new creation, why is the law of sin still so active in us? Archim. Zacharias: Christ has not come to abolish the freedom of man. Man is still free to accept or not to accept Him. Read more
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back. . .Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Read more
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. The Gospel readings which the Church has appointed to be read at the Divine Liturgy from the end of September (actually from the Sunday after the Exaltation of the Precious Cross) until Christmas, are all taken from Saint Read more
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes, with the Read more
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. While the people pressed upon Him to hear the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. And He saw Read more
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Question: Is pride the cause of jealousy? Archim. Zacharias: There may be many causes, but above all it is lack of trust in God Who gives all things to all men. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Father says to his elder son: ‘Why Read more
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commandments! Wealth and riches are in his house; and his Read more
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Saint Silouan says that he never found an Elder that reached the measure of his father, who was so kind-hearted. He desired a meek Elder, not a fearful one with a mighty hand. Before he met Saint Silouan, Father Sophrony had cried burning tears asking for Read more
Do you know how you could make other people rich? They’re opposites, aren’t they? Well, in today’s epistle reading, Saint Paul tells how he was rich and poor, all at the same time. Saint Paul tells us of all the awful things that happened to him, as he traveled around, Read more
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios Our Church commemorates on the 24th of September a prominent saint, one of the great women of the Apostolic age, St. Thekla, the great Champion of the Faith. She was born in Iconium (today’s Konya) around the year 28 AD, to a pagan family. The Saint Read more