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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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Saint Dimitrios The Myrrh-Yielder – 1

James W. Lillie Saint Dimitrios is the protector and patron saint of Thessaloniki, a saint from whose relics myrrh flows and also a Great Martyr. There are actually conflicting accounts in the sources, but the overwhelming view is that he was born and bred in Thessaloniki. As a young man, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 25, 2023 ago
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The Divine Liturgy of Saint James the Brother of Our Lord, the Day After

Hieromonk Eleftherios Balakos   Yesterday was the feast-day of Saint James, the Brother of Our Lord. On that day, some bishops and priests make a point of celebrating the Divine Liturgy that bears his name. I shan’t get involved with the question of how authentic or pseudonymous it is, to Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 24, 2023 ago
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How does the Holy Trinity create a person?

Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia   It’s been noted by theological scholarship on more than one occasion that, in Orthodoxy, dogma and ethos, theory and practice, faith and life are indissolubly bound together. Every invitation to spiritual struggle has a powerful dogmatic foundation and vice versa: the spiritual Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 23, 2023 ago
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Proof that God is One, not Many

Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †   [Having shown what God is and that He is incomprehensible] Saint John goes on to prove that He is One, not many. This is clear to those who are convinced by the Holy Scriptures. The Lord says as much at the beginning Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 22, 2023 ago
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Millennialists and the Precious Cross of the Lord

Protopresbyter Vasileios Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   For all Christians, the Lord’s precious Cross is a manifestation of God’s unfailing love for His creation, (Jn. 3, 14-15; 12, 32-33; Col. 1, 20). It is the boast of Christ’s ordeal (Gal. 6, 4) and the invincible Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 21, 2023 ago
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Living with cunning people

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   We usually view other people on the basis of our own inner eyes and ‘what the heart is full of’ (Luke 6, 45). If we’re cunning, we think other people are cunning, as well; if we’re guileless, we think that other people are, too. Saint Gregory the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 21, 2023 ago
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Blessed Gerasimos the Younger, from Kefallonia

Our blessed father Yerasimos was born in 1509, in the village of Trikala, near Corinth in the Peloponnese. His God-fearing parents, Dimitrios and Kali came from the prominent Notaras family and, from a young age, he was taught his letters, at which he excelled. While still a young man, he Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 20, 2023 ago
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On Perspicacity

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi   Perspicacity is the healthy and unerring assessment of concepts and things so that they can be judged properly in terms of time, manner, place and occasion, and always in terms of edification. Perspicacity is the ability to identify imminent developments before they occur and thus Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 19, 2023 ago
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Sermon on the feast day of St Luke the Evangelist

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   On October 18th, our Church honors the distinguished figure of St. Luke the Evangelist. He was a Greek from the Great city of Antioch in Syria (today’s Antakya). It was here that he studied medicine, in a city that was renowned for the development of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 18, 2023 ago
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The Seed of the Word of God and the Ground

Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor of the School of Theology of the University of Thessaloniki   The parable of the sower is a wake-up call for self-criticism and self-knowledge. People often wonder and are surprised at the apparent failure of Christianity in the world, which can be seen to a greater or Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 17, 2023 ago
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The Parable of the Sower

Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes   In today’s Gospel reading, the Evangelist Luke presented the Parable of Sower. Our Lord Jesus Christ used examples from the daily life to express the heavenly and divine truths. He was able in this way to help the man of good will to understand and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 16, 2023 ago
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The 7th Ecumenical Synod

Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios   Beloved brothers and sisters, when he was speaking one time to the elders of the Church of Ephesus, Saint Paul told them that he was aware that, after he left them, savage wolves would come in among them and would not spare the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 15, 2023 ago

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