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How to react to doubts about the faith

Saint Theophan the Recluse   At one time or another, everyone has doubts about the faith. These can easily be dismissed, however, by opposing thoughts which reveal the truth about the divine revelation regarding both the cosmos and humankind: the order and harmony of the universe, the miracle of life, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 24 hoursMay 26, 2022 ago
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Remembrance of God’s Blessings

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   The problems, sins and mistakes we have in our lives are many and various. At times a sense of disappointment weighs upon our hearts. We wonder whether this is how life’s going to continue. Is there any prospect of improvement? Will we ever see better days? Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 daysMay 25, 2022 ago
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OCN Weekly Printable Children’s Word

Welcome to “The Children’s Word,” a weekly ministry of the Orthodox Christian Network. Each week, Presvytera Alexandra Houck writes this little newsletter for young parishioners! You will find age-appropriate articles, stories, and activities in every edition. The newsletter is provided in PDF format so that you can easily download and Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 3 daysMay 24, 2022 ago
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Monastic Conversations

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   Hesychasm is a spiritual phenomenon, the quintessence of the ascetical tradition in the Orthodox Church. Through the practice of hesychasm, the soul of man is ‘fattened’ by the grace of God, it receives a hypostasis. The martyrs offer their life to God and enter Paradise in Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 daysMay 24, 2022 ago
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Encounter with Eternal Life: ‘Whoever drinks of the water which I will give, will never thirst again’

Sotirios Theologou   Today, Saint John the Evangelist describes for us a very interesting encounter. Before we see the meeting, let’s look at the person who was to meet Christ. The woman whom the Evangelist mentions was someone who took no thought for the morrow. She wasn’t interested in what Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 daysMay 23, 2022 ago
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Sunday of the Samaritan woman (John 4:5-42)

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 daysMay 22, 2022 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, 6 daysMay 21, 2022 ago
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Freedom’s Hideaway

Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis †   On the evening of Great Friday, we begin the service with a rather strange tropario. It’s a hymn which is joyful rather than mournful. Not a lament, but a hymn of praise: ‘God is the Lord and has appeared to us…’. The one and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 7 daysMay 20, 2022 ago
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The First-Born of the Dead and the Land of the Living (4)

George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   God doesn’t impose himself on people in a high-handed manner. The kingdom of God isn’t a kingdom of imperious authority but of interactive love and freedom. It’s a communion which offers boundless love and freedom. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 19, 2022 ago
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Midpentecost

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   ‘I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely’[1]. During Great Lent, to a certain degree, we taste of Christ’s death. In the middle of this period, the Church institutes the Veneration of the Precious Cross, to quicken Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 18, 2022 ago
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The Life-Giving Word (Sunday of the Paralytic)

Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.   The subject of the narrative in the Gospel of Saint John (5, 1) concerning the complaint of the man who’d been paralyzed for 38 years, is genuinely moving: ‘I have no-one to put me into the pool when Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 17, 2022 ago
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A Multitude of Invalids

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the waters to be moved’. One of the factors of human existence, which often constitutes a trap Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksMay 16, 2022 ago

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