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Professor Mihaïl Tritos, School of Theology A.U.Th. No other text is able to express with such force and fulness the redemptive, existential and metaphysical dimension of the resurrection so well as the incomparable canon by Saint John the Damascan. It’s a masterpiece of Byzantine poetry and one of the Read more
Sotirios Theologou Christ has risen. Since last Sunday, we’ve been celebrating and honoring the great message of Christ’s resurrection. It’s a message that’s always enduring and a reminder that, however we live, however many difficulties and problems we may have, however many people are against us, Christ has risen. Read more
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian A prominent officer in the Roman army, Saint George enjoyed the favor of the Emperor Diocletian because of his bravery and abilities. Publicly, and in front of the emperor himself, he opposed the latter’s decision to launch a persecution against Christians, boldly confessing that he Read more
Saint George is one of the most beloved saints of the Eastern Church. In particular, the people of Cappadocia, his homeland, had recourse to him for help and assistance from very early on and his honour and fame spread throughout the world. The achievements of the saint didn’t remain only Read more
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘How great and unsearchable is the depth of your compassion, Merciful Lord. You were patient with the Jews who struck you; with the apostle who touched you; with the perplexed who dismissed you. How were you incarnated? How were you crucified, you who are sinless? But Read more
Protopresbyter Antonios Christou My dear readers, CHRIST HAS RISEN! After Great Lent, we entered Holy Week, and after Easter Sunday (the evening of Great Saturday) we’re now into the ‘Rose’ Triodio, that is the period of the Pentikostario (the book of Pentecost). This is the preeminent time of the Read more
Edited by Stelios Koukos This truly life-bearing spring once raised a dead man. This amazing miracle happened in this way: There was once a man from Thessaly who died, on a boat ,while making a trip to Constantinople and to the Life-Receiving Spring in particular. Before he died, however, and Read more
Georgios Martzelos St Joasaph was the son of the pious ruler of Epirus and Thessaly Symeon Sinisi, who was descended from the royal house of Nemanja and was proclaimed “tsar of the Greeks, the Serbs and the Albanians” under the name of “Symeon Uros Palaeologus”. His mother, Thomaïs, was Read more
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens My beloved brothers and sisters, my beloved children, At this time of the year, we hear the encouraging words: ‘Let no-one fear death; for the death of the Savior has set us free’. We look forward expectantly to the resurrection of the dead. This hope Read more
Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras In the magnificent service on Great Friday, we sang the compelling and wonderful doxastiko from the ninth hour ‘Today he who hung the earth on the waters hangs upon the cross’, which ends ‘we venerate your Passion, Christ. Show Read more
Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras In the magnificent service on Great Friday, we sang the compelling and wonderful doxastiko from the ninth hour ‘Today he who hung the earth on the waters hangs upon the cross’, which ends ‘we venerate your Passion, Christ. Show Read more
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos There can hardly be any Christian believer who doesn’t know that an angel descended from heaven and rolled away the stone from the entry to the tomb where the Creator of life lay dead, without breath. Very few, however really know why the stone was rolled Read more