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Contrition not Dejection

Archimandrite Gregorios Κonstantinou   Holy Lent is starting and the Church has ordained that, at the services on the days of this period, texts and hymns should be read from the book of the Triodio. This book took its name from the three odes, that is the three groups of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 9, 2022 ago
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The Fast of the Senses

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘In exactly the same way as we fast from food, so our tongue should also fast from defamation and lies, from idle talk and condemnation of our neighbor, from anger. By the same token, we must fast with our eyes, so that we don’t gaze at shallow Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 8, 2022 ago
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I AM the Vine, You Are the Branches

Initiating Your disciples, O Lord, You instructed them, saying, “O my friends, see that no fear separates you from Me. Although I suffer, yet I do so for the sake of the world. So do not fall away because of Me; for I came not to be served but to Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 3 yearsMarch 8, 2022 ago
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Thoughts on Great Lent

Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos   Beloved parishioners, we are now embarking on the time of Great Lent, a period which will bring us to Easter. In this, we rather resemble the ancient Israelite people who left the country of slavery (Egypt) and made their way to the Promised Land. As is Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 7, 2022 ago
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Man of God Ticket Giveaway

OCN is partnering with Fathom Events and Cinemark for tickets to the upcoming theatre release of the film Man of God about the life of Saint Nektarios. Eligible winners will receive tickets to the March 21st showing at a Cinemark theatre near them. How to enter: Download and post this Read more…

By myOCN, 3 yearsMarch 7, 2022 ago
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Return to Paradise (Cheese-Fare Sunday)

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †   In the person of the old Adam, the human race fell, when it sinned against love; and God’s dread judgement will be a crisis (i.e. judgement) for human love. Humankind was called to total unity of the whole of our lives with God, through love, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 6, 2022 ago
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Cheese-Fare Sunday

Monk Agapios   Behold, my friends, the arena of Holy Lent opens today. Behold, we’ve arrived at the gate of the fast and are about to engage in the warfare of the spirit. We’re now approaching the harbour of salvation and should be glad and rejoice more than when we Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 5, 2022 ago
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God’s grace doesn’t exclude anyone

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘Even in the world, if Christians undertake the struggle with good intentions, God’s grace doesn’t exclude anyone. But, ‘excusing ourselves through excuses’ we say that we’re in the world and we can’t do anything. Desires defeat us. What do we need? This struggle, not only of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 4, 2022 ago
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Our Attitude to Scandal

Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis of the Ecumenical Throne   The hatred of the devil towards those engaged in the spiritual struggle is well known. This hatred was faced particularly by the fathers in the desert, whose purity, not only of body but also of mind, was greater than the enemy could Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 3, 2022 ago
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The Radical Nature of Christianity (2)

George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   The rejection of Christ, but also his acceptance by many, is an enduring phenomenon which can be seen in our own age, too. He himself said to his disciples: ‘If they have persecuted me, they Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 2, 2022 ago
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Why did the Church Establish the Saturdays of the Souls?

Fr. Ioannis Sourlingas   The Saturday before Meat-fare Sunday is called the ‘Saturday of the Souls’. It’s the first of two, the other being the Saturday before the Sunday of Pentecost. Even though every Saturday is dedicated to the departed, the Church established the Saturdays of the Souls for the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 1, 2022 ago
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Service of the Bridegroom: To Be Judged Worthy to Enter into Eternal Life

When You come in Glory with Your heavenly Hosts, and sit upon the throne of Judgment, O Good Shepherd, do not separate me, for You know the ways of those on the right, and that those on the left are perverted. Wherefore, though I be hardened in sin, do not condemn Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 3 yearsMarch 1, 2022 ago

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