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Pemptousia Partnership

Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   Question: Why have they included marriage in the Sacraments of the Church, and not monasticism? Answer: Fr Sophrony said to me once: ‘Imagine that they do not accept monasticism as a sacrament of the Church, and marriage is one of the sacraments!’ Both of them should Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 yearsMay 5, 2020 ago
Articles

When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers with Marcellino D’Ambrosio

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Long before the schism between East and West, Protestant and Catholic, long before the words catholic, orthodox, and evangelical referred to communities distinct and separated from each other, the Fathers of the Church gloried in the one faith of the…

By myOCN, 5 years ago
The Prayer Team

Psalm 18 – The Lord is My ________

I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. . Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 5 yearsMay 4, 2020 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Homily on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing women

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   When reading the Holy Gospels, one of the most striking things we see is that after the Lord’s Resurrection, His Disciples were not the first to see Him. Instead, it was the women who had anointed Jesus’ dead body with myrrh, who would receive the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 yearsMay 4, 2020 ago
The Prayer Team

The Courage of Joseph and the Myrrh-Bearing Women

Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate wondered if He were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether He was Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 5 yearsMay 3, 2020 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The Myrrh-Bearing Women arrive at the empty Tomb

Athanasios Moustakis, D. Th.   According to the Jewish custom which was observed at the time of Christ, a dead body was to be anointed with precious myrrh, so that it would be prepared to be given over to the decay of death. Christ’s body was no exception to this Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 yearsMay 3, 2020 ago
The Prayer Team

The Basic Work of the Church

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 5 yearsMay 2, 2020 ago
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The Basic Work of the Church

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 5 yearsMay 2, 2020 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Father Isaak had a Snake for Company!

This story was told by Archimandrite Gavriil (1886-1983), former Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou. Back in the late 1970s, early ’80s, I was making a visit to the Holy Mountain, which is easy from Thessaloniki, where we live. In those days, the ship’s first stop was the boat-house Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 yearsMay 2, 2020 ago
The Prayer Team

Psalm 16—God Is Our Security

Preserve me, O God, for in Thee I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from Thee. As for the saints in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight. Those who choose another god multiply their Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 5 yearsMay 1, 2020 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The only unerring star

Saint Maximos the Greek   You should know that the only unerring star that leads you to practice the holy virtues is fear, divine and always pure, through which each one of us is removed far from evil. Always steer strictly by it as you sail straight for the heavenly, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 yearsMay 1, 2020 ago
The Children's Word

Let’s Spread this Good News

Did anybody ever tell you, “Be sure to tell your parents” something? Probably, a neighbor or one of your teachers told you to give your mom or dad an important message. Did you remember to do it? Today, two weeks after Pascha (Easter) we are still celebrating the Lord’s holy Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 5 yearsApril 30, 2020 ago

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