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Pemptousia is published by the ‘SAINT MAXIM THE GREEK’ Institute for the Research, Preservation, and Promotion of Spiritual and Cultural Traditions. It appears online, in several languages. Pemptousia (www.pemptousia.com) and OCN have formed a strategic partnership, whereby content from each organization is shared online by both. We are delighted to bring you articles, videos, and other offerings from the Holy Mountain here at MyOCN.net.

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Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis Has Departed This Life

This morning, 9 May 2019, Archimandrite Elder Aimilianos, former Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras on the Holy Mountain fell asleep in the Lord at the Holy Convent of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, Ormylia, Halkidiki. Biographical details by Hieromonk Serapion Simonopetritis (†2019). You have made Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 9, 2019 ago
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Elder Ieronymos Simonopetritis (1871-1957)

Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian   Childhood Years (1871-1888) Elder Ieronymos was born in the village of Reïz-Dere in the Krini region of Asia Minor in 1871 to poor but devout parents, Nikolaos and Maria Diakoyiorgis. The village was wholly Christian and lay five kilometres to the north-east of Alatsata and two Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 7, 2019 ago
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Eternal riches, cost free

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis   Uncharitable people are unhappy because their heart has never felt the joy of doing good works and or giving alms. They haven’t understood that real enjoyment lies in loving your neighbor. They haven’t realized that, in giving to others, you pile up eternal riches, cost Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 6, 2019 ago
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After the Resurrection (3)

Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras   ‘When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight’. So we’ve seen Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 4, 2019 ago
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After the Resurrection (2)

Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras   Let us, then, have a look at this mystery and understand it from a single appearance of Christ after His resurrection: to two of His disciples who were on the road to Emmaus, a small town some 10 miles Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 3, 2019 ago
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After the Resurrection

Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras   In his Easter Homily, Saint John Chrysostom announces that ‘Christ has risen and we can take part in life’*. This means that Christ has risen and we now have true life, or, in other words, Christ has risen and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 2, 2019 ago
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The winner of the trophy of love (In memory of the great Martyr, St George, the Trophy bearer)

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi Our Church today celebrates the feast of a martyr. If we try to pay any tribute to the celebrated martyr, we will demean him. This particular Saint is the glory of all martyrs, the boast of the Saints and the prestige of the Heavens and the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 29, 2019 ago
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The Resurrection in the Orthodox Church

Saint Justin Popovich In the Orthodox Church, the Resurrection is not merely the ‘feast of feasts’, but the all-embracing feast, which is the soul of all the others and is always present in them. In it we find all the divine and theanthropic powers of the Saviour, which crush every Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 28, 2019 ago
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The appropriate organs to receive the divine gifts

Saint Maximos the Confessor The intellect is the organ of wisdom, whereas the reason is that of knowledge. The natural, internal certainty of the intellect and of the reason is the organ of faith, which is a product of wisdom and knowledge. Natural charity is the organ of the gift Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 17, 2019 ago
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On Love

Georgios Koios This period of Great Lent through which we’re passing, and also the worrying social phenomena we see on a global scale, challenge and invite us as people to reflect on and weigh up why it is that almost the whole of mankind is in turmoil. Tension between ourselves Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 16, 2019 ago
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Saint Mary of Egypt

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † 16 April 1989 In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We keep today the memory of Saint Mary of Egypt in the gradual progression from glory to glory which Lent is, and which must lead us step by step to facing Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 15, 2019 ago
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The Memory of the Blessed Mary the Egyptian

Nektarios Thanos “… her many sins have been remitted, because she loved greatly” Luke 7, 47. On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, the Church honours the memory of a “street-walker”, a woman who led such a dissolute life that the word “prostitute” is more of a euphemism rather than an Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 14, 2019 ago

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