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Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

Fr. Stavros N. Akrotirianakis is the Proistamenos of St. John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Fr. contributes the Prayer Team Ministry, a daily reflection, which began in February 2015. The Prayer Team now has its own dedicated website! Fr. Stavros has produced multiple books, you can view here: https://amzn.to/3nVPY5M
The Prayer Team

Remember the World and the Church as Part of It

Visit us with Your goodness, Lord; manifest Yourself to us through Your rich compassion. Grant us seasonable weather and fruitful seasons; send gentle showers upon the earth so that it may bear fruit; bless the crown of the year of Your goodness. Prevent schism in the Church; pacify the raging Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 22, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Sunday of the Blind Man

As he passed by, Jesus saw a man blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 21, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Sts. Constantine and Helen

Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: “Thus I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 20, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Remember the Clergy

Above all, remember Lord, our Archbishop (Name), grant that he may serve Your Holy Churches in peace. Keep him safe, honorable and healthy for many years, rightly teaching the word of Your truth. Remember, Lord, all Orthodox bishops who rightly teach the word of Your truth. Remember Lord, my unworthiness according Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 19, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

The Hope of the Hopeless

For You, Lord, are the helper of the helpless, the hope of the hopeless, the Savior of the afflicted, the haven of the voyager, and the physician of the sick. Be all things to all people, You who know each person, his requests, his household, and his need. Deliver this Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 18, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Remember the Forgotten

Remember, Lord our God, all Your people, and pour out Your rich mercy upon them, granting them their petitions for salvation. Remember, O God, all those whom we have not remembered through ignorance, forgetfulness or because of their multitude since You know the name and age of each, even from Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 17, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

A Reflection I Offered Last Night

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 16, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

25 Years as a Priest

But on some points I have written to you very boldly, by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God, to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 15, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman | If We Only Knew

So He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as He was with His journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 14, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Acts—The First Chapter of Church History

Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 13, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Remember the Afflicted

Free those who are held captive by unclean spirits; sail with those who sail; travel with those who travel; defend the widows; protect the orphans; liberate the captives; heal the sick. Remember, Lord, those who are in mines, in exile, in harsh labor, and those in every kind of affliction, Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 12, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Remember Our Enemies

Those who entreat Your lovingkindness; those who love us and those who hate us; those who have asked us to pray for them, unworthy though we may be. (Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, p. 34) — Jesus said “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMay 11, 2023 ago

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