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Honor and Responsibility

Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos   It’s an open secret that even the smallest amount of praise concerning any real or, more commonly, imagined gifts we may have is almost always the occasion for conceit and vanity. Imagine if we heard someone say to us: ‘You are the light of the world’. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 31, 2022 ago
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Feast of the Three Hierarchs: the obligations of parents and educators

Sophia Kafkopoulou   Today, 30 January, we celebrate the three hierarchs. There are lots of hierarch saints whom we honour throughout the year in the Church, but this is a feast of three together, although they also each have their own day on which we commemorate them. They’re Basil the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 30, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The Three Hierarchs and Education

Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong and South-East Asia   In the 11th Century, at the time of Emperor Alexios Komninos, the common feast of the three great Fathers of the Church, Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople and Basil the Great, Archbishop of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 29, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Beware of Habit

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘Do not become accustomed to being defeated in the spiritual war, because habit becomes second nature’ (Saint Efraim the Syrian). The great Saint Efraim the Syrian makes a profound psychological and also spiritual observation, the truth of which we can all confirm from our daily experience. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 28, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Return to Civility

Triandafillos Sermetzis   For a good number of years now there’s been a virus going round infecting societies. It’s the illusion that ignorance is as compelling as knowledge. This means that, in order for people take a stand in the public arena, they choose to be disgustingly rude and to Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 27, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Light and Lights

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘Because the Lord has prepared it to be his throne and dwelling-place, the soul which has been granted spiritual union with the light of Christ and has been illumined by the moral beauty of his inexpressible glory completely becomes light, completely becomes a persona*, completely becomes Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 26, 2022 ago
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On why we must reproach ourselves

Abba Dorotheos   Let us investigate how it is that sometimes, if a person hears something unkind, they’re able to let it go without becoming upset, whereas at other times, they hear something and are immediately offended. What’s the reason behind this difference? Is there only one cause or many? Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 25, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The Blind Man in Jericho

Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †   Today’s Gospel tells us of the miracle of the cure of the blind man in Jericho. This man was not only blind, he was also poor. This is why he begged. ‘He sat at the side of the road, begging’, as the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 24, 2022 ago
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14th Sunday of Luke: Physical or Spiritual Blindness?

Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos   14th Sunday of Saint Luke today, and we’ve now entered the month of Christmas. Jesus enters Jericho and comes across a suffering person whose affliction is blindness. It’s a terrible cross for him not to enjoy the first and greatest of God’s goods: perceptible light. Apart Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 23, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Give me security

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘The devil hates any message or attitude that keep us safe from evil’ (Abba Dorotheos) One of the main requirements we have as people is the need to feel safe and secure, not only in our relationships but in every circumstance of our life which we Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 22, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

What does it mean to become a Cyrenian?

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   No one has gone through life without ever being worried, hurt, or driven to tears. As children of Adam, all of us, young and old, have to live with the consequences of the fall of our forefather, precisely because that forefather is each one of us. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 20, 2022 ago
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Why are there expressions in the Old Testament which present God as ‘vengeful’?

Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis   Study of the Old Testament requires discernment and a firm grounding in the knowledge of the holy books. You might, for example, be surprised by many of the expressions you read in Leviticus, precisely because it requires genuine learning, an evidence-based and subtle approach to interpretation. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsJanuary 19, 2022 ago

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