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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

The Work of the Son

For, since through man sin came into the world and through sin death, it pleased Your only begotten Son, who is in Your bosom, God and Father, born of a woman, the holy Theotokos and ever virgin Mary; born under the Law, to condemn sin in His flesh, so that Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsApril 4, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

The Incarnation

And when the fullness of time had come, You spoke to us through Your Son Himself, through Whom You created the ages. He, being the splendor of Your glory and the image of Your being, upholding all things by the word of His power, thought it not robbery to be Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsApril 3, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Fifth Sunday of Lent—St. Mary of Egypt | True Leaders Are Servants

And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, He began to tell them what was to happen to Him, saying, “Behold, we are going up to Read more…

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

Setting the Stage

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) He entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsApril 1, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

A Summary of the Old Testament

For You did not forever reject Your creature whom You made, O Good One, nor did You forget the work of Your hands, but because of Your tender compassion, You visited him in various ways: You sent forth prophets; You performed mighty works by Your saints who in every generation Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 31, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

The Fall

But when he disobeyed You, the true God who had created him, and was led astray by the deception of the serpent, becoming subject to death through his own transgressions, You, O God, in Your righteous judgment, expelled him from Paradise into this world, returning him to the earth from Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 30, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

The Creation of the World

For having made man by taking dust from the earth, and having honored him with Your own image, O God, You placed him in a garden of delight, promising him eternal life and the enjoyment of everlasting blessings in the observance of Your commandments. (Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 29, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

The Praise of God

Together with these blessed powers, loving Master we sinners also cry out and say: Truly You are holy and most holy, and there are no bounds to the majesty of Your holiness. You are holy in all Your works, for with righteousness and true judgment You have ordered all things Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 28, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

A Vision of Isaiah

  For You are praised by the angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities, powers, and the many eyed Cherubim. Round about You stand the Seraphim, one with six wings and the other with six wings; with two they cover their faces; with two they cover their feet; with two they Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 27, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Fourth Sunday of Great Lent—St. John Climacus | Faith, Prayer, Fasting and the Ladder of Divine Ascent

And one of the crowd answered Jesus, “Teacher, I brought my son to You, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked Your disciples to cast it out, and they Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 26, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Who the Heck was Melchizedek?

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 25, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Feast of the Annunciation – Thankfully, She Said “Yes”—Will You?

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she hid herself, saying, “Thus the Lord has done to me in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.” In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsMarch 24, 2023 ago

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