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Hasty and Careless Prayer

Saint Theophan the Recluse   Coldness May the grace of God be with you. You write: ‘My prayer is somewhat cold and weak’. The coldness and weakness aren’t in the prayer, but in the person praying. Try to pray as you should and your prayer will go better. If a Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 29, 2022 ago
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Hail, for through you our sin is remitted: Hail, for through you Paradise is opened

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   Freedom’s a gift from God. And since we’re made in God’s image, we can’t be deprived of it. Its use, of course, may follow two main paths. One leads to God and other people, that is, that we become bound together in love and become companions Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 28, 2022 ago
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The Soul Is What Has the Most Value

And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 3 yearsMarch 27, 2022 ago
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Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross

George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   In the middle of the time of Great Lent, we have the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross. The rubrics for the day begin as follows: ‘Since we, too, are, in a sense, crucified Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 27, 2022 ago
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Easter before Easter, the Annunciation of the Resurrection

Father Nikolaos Patsalos   This year, the 5th Sunday in Lent coincided with the great feast of the Mother of God, her Annunciation. We’d left the middle of Lent the previous Sunday, that of John of the Ladder, and, instead of the 5th being centred on the great desert ascetic, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 26, 2022 ago
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Orthodoxy Now Quarterly Magazine. Spring 2022

Contents 3 Director’s Letter  Sign up to receive Orthodoxy Now Magazine Updates. Click to Read the Full Issue 4 IOCC Sets $1 Million Goal for Ukraine  The humanitarian and development agency International Orthodox Christian Charities  (IOCC) is responding to needs created by the war in Ukraine. Given the enormity of Read more…

By myOCN, 3 yearsMarch 25, 2022 ago
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First Discourse on the Annunciation (part 3)

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   Just as the pearl comes from two natures, from lightning and water, from the unfathomable parts of the sea, so also our Lord Jesus Christ proceeds, without confusion and without change, from the pure, chaste, undefiled and holy Virgin Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 25, 2022 ago
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First Discourse on the Annunciation (part 2)

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   [The archangel continued]: ‘You alone, All-Holy Virgin, now receive the mysteries unknown to all of these and learn their origin. For where the Holy Spirit is, everything is already well-ordered. Where there is Divine Grace, everything is possible for Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 24, 2022 ago
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First Discourse on the Annunciation (part 1)

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   Today, the ranks of the angels rejoice at the hymns being sung and the light of the presence of Christ shines brightly upon the faithful. Today, is glad spring-time for us, and Christ the Sun of Righteousness shines all Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 23, 2022 ago
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The Remission of Sins (2nd Sunday of Great Lent)

Pavlos Mouktaroudis   What is it exactly that the Gospel for this day [Mark, 2, 1-12] tells us? That we should do everything, the impossible, in order to draw close to the Lord in our lives and in our experience of the cross. We must overcome every obstacle, every sin Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 22, 2022 ago
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The Simplicity of God according to Saint Gregory Palamas

George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   The prime feature of God is His simplicity. If God is not simple, but composed of different parts, then these parts must have existed before Him. Such a God would not be the Cause and Creator of all things, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 20, 2022 ago
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Saint Gregory Palamas and the Hesychasts (2nd Sunday in Lent)

Pavlos Mouktaroudis   The second Sunday in Lent is devoted to Saint Gregory Palamas (14th century), a hesychast from the Holy Mountain and later Archbishop of Thessaloniki. Saint Gregory Palamas defended the hesychasts of the Holy Mountain who were being mocked and attacked by the person who expressed the spirit Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 19, 2022 ago

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