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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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Sunday before the Elevation of the Holy Cross (John 3:13-17)

Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes   A week before the feast day of the Universal Elevation of the Holy Cross, the Orthodox Church prepares the faithful through Scriptural readings, prayer and acts of good deeds to celebrate the event of the finding of the precious and life-giving Cross of our Lord Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksSeptember 10, 2023 ago
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The Holy Forebears Joachim and Anna

Lambros Skontzos, Theologian   Joachim and Anna, the forefather and foremother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, occupy an important place of honor in the hagiology of the Church. At almost every service, there’s a separate reference to these venerable persons, with the celebrating clergy invoking their prayers to God. They’re Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksSeptember 9, 2023 ago
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On the Birth of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God – 2

Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople   But once He had granted the usufruct and overlordship of all things in Paradise, He had to train the people he had entrusted with such great authority. He gave them a law, which was neither difficult to observe, nor extremely easy to Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksSeptember 8, 2023 ago
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On the Birth of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God – 1

Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople   Today, the Virgin Mother is born from a barren mother and the palace is bedecked for the coming of the Lord Christ. Today, the bonds of sterility are broken and the gates of the Virgin are barred. Because, as the barren womb Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksSeptember 7, 2023 ago
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Saint Hermione, the daughter of Saint Philip the Deacon

W. J. Lillie   Saint Hermione, one of the four daughters of the Deacon Philip, who, according to the evidence in Acts (21, 8-9) were virgins and prophetesses, Hermioneand Eftyhis went to Ephesus to meet Saint John the Theologian. But because the beloved apostle had already been taken up into Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksSeptember 4, 2023 ago
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Encomium on the Beheading of the Great Forerunner – 3

Saint Theodore the Studite   According to the Gospel, his disciples then came, took away his body and buried it (Matth. 14, 13). Those of you who love history, look at how the burial of this righteous man is depicted and gives the lie to those enemies of the holy Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksAugust 31, 2023 ago
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Encomium on the Beheading of the Great Forerunner – 2

Saint Theodore the Studite   So what did he say to Herod? “You’re not allowed to live with her”. He reminded him of the divine law, as if saying to him: “Look and see what the Law orders you to do. If there are two brothers and one of them Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksAugust 30, 2023 ago
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Encomium on the Beheading of the Great Forerunner

Saint Theodore the Studite   Dear God-fearing Christians, the feast which we have gathered here to celebrate together today is radiant and filled with divine joy. It is rightly called radiant because it shines from the very name of him whom we are honouring today, since he is called the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksAugust 29, 2023 ago
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Geronda in Hawaii (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)

Elder Ephraim in Arizona †   Geronda loved the sea and trees. That is Geronda why, when I went to Hawaii to hear confessions in 1987, I saw him in a vision in the midst of orange trees. Those orange trees were tall and loaded with oranges and apples. Up Read more…

By Dimitris Iliopoulos, 4 weeksAugust 28, 2023 ago
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Saint Martyr Fanourios

W.J. Lillie   We have nothing to say with certainty about the famous martyr of Christ, Fanourios, as regards where he came from, who his parents were and when his martyrdom occurred, because all information has been lost to the depredations of time and covered by the tombstone of oblivion. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksAugust 27, 2023 ago
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The respect shown by the faithful to Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis   The degree of respect, honor and love shown towards the Mother of God by the faithful is second only to that shown to God. The respect for the Mother of God dates back to the 1st and 2nd centuries and was decreed by Scripture itself which mentions Read more…

By Dimitris Iliopoulos, 1 monthAugust 23, 2023 ago
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On sudden death

Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery   Nowadays when science and technology are flying, when cultures converge and there is a crisis in values, even the word ‘death’ is avoided and anything reminiscent of it is ignored and discarded. Modern man views death as something negative and as a Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthAugust 22, 2023 ago

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