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How people become atheists

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘There’s a danger that, if people pay no attention to little things, this neglect will then extend to greater and more sacred ones, without their realizing. They vindicate themselves by saying that this isn’t important, that that doesn’t matter and they’ll reach the point, God forfend, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 21 hoursJune 1, 2023 ago
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Ecumenical Synods and the Church of the Holy Wisdom

Protopresbyter Mihaïl Efthymiou   Before we embark on the presentation of our subject, we need to discuss the time of the construction of the church of the Holy Wisdom [of God]. The church of the Holy Wisdom was built in honor of Christ. The construction started after the 1st Ecumenical Synod Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 daysMay 31, 2023 ago
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Sunday of the Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent’ (Jn. 17, 3). The Gospel reading for the Sunday of the Fathers is part of the high priestly prayer  of the Lord, which he addressed to his Heavenly Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 daysMay 30, 2023 ago
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An Ottoman Volunteer Defends Besieged Constantinople (1453)

Nikos Nikoloudis   At the fall of Constantinople, in 1453, it was not only Greeks pitched against Turks, as is, perhaps, widely believed, but there was also a good number of foreigners involved. Some of these were forced to fight on the side of the Ottomans, such as an attachment Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 daysMay 29, 2023 ago
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The Sunday of the Holy Fathers of Nicaea

Fr. Lev Gillet   The Sunday which follows the Ascension, the sixth Sunday after Easter, is called the Sunday of the Holy Fathers. We commemorate then the bishops who met at the Synod of Nicaea, the earliest of the seven ecumenical Synods in terms of date. Regardless of each synod Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 daysMay 28, 2023 ago
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Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (Acts 20: 16-18, 28-36)

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   For this particular reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we see the Apostle Paul imparting his spiritual legacy upon the presbyters of Ephesus in an emotional farewell address at the seaside town of Miletus. Our Church, in its wisdom has chosen this passage as Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 daysMay 27, 2023 ago
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The Lord’s Ascension: the Visible Sign of God’s Reconciliation with Us

Fr. Gennadios Manolis, Theologian   The Lord’s Ascension is the visible sign of God’s reconciliation with us, but also the glorification of our human nature. This reconciliation and our glorification were achieved through the incarnation of the Son and Word of God, His teachings, His voluntary Passion, His glorious Resurrection, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 7 daysMay 26, 2023 ago
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The Ascension of Jesus Christ in Glory

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   ‘God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.’[1] The Ascension is the last event in Christ’s earthly life. Of course, Pentecost is the fulfilment of God’s dispensation, which is why is called ‘the last feast’[2]. God the Father was Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 25, 2023 ago
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On real prayer, which strikes through the heavens and reaches the throne of God

(edited by Stelios Koukos) Noetic prayer is also called prayer of the heart. You ask if oral prayer can also be called prayer of the heart. Unless it’s pure, neither noetic or oral prayer can be called ‘of the heart’. It’s prayer of the heart when the heart literally swallows Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 24, 2023 ago
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An open window

Elder Moisis the Athonite †   We’ve said before that God isn’t impassioned, punitive or vindictive. If he were so, he’d have to be evil. But there’s not a trace of wickedness in the divinity. Every trial’s a divine lesson and a form of asceticism, which we’ve otherwise voluntarily removed Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 23, 2023 ago
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‘Repentance is like lightning’

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   I was in the Evangelismos Hospital. I was concerned about my soul’s unreadiness. When my spiritual guide (the late Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos) visited me, I said: ‘I’m praying that God will give me a few more years of life, so that I can repent’. He answered: Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksMay 22, 2023 ago
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Ss. Constantine and Helen

James W. Lillie   At Eastertide, at some undetermined place and year, the Emperor Constantine I made his Oration to the Assembly of the Saints, either in Latin (Oratio ad sanctorum coetum) or Greek (Λόγος τῷ τῶν ἁγίων συλλόγῳ). It is a lengthy and not terribly interesting text, but given Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksMay 21, 2023 ago

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