Sermon on the 1st Sunday of Luke (Luke 5: 1-11)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios What should be admired first from what the Evangelist Luke told us today? The people of Galilee, who thirsted to hear the words of Jesus? They filled the shore of Lake Gennesaret as soon as they learned that Jesus was there, and they longed to...
Conversations with Father Zacharias – Envy
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Question: Is pride the cause of jealousy? Archim. Zacharias: There may be many causes, but above all it is lack of trust in God Who gives all things to all men. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Father says to his elder son: ‘Why...
Conversations with Father Zacharias – Charismatic Theocracy
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Saint Silouan says that he never found an Elder that reached the measure of his father, who was so kind-hearted. He desired a meek Elder, not a fearful one with a mighty hand. Before he met Saint Silouan, Father Sophrony had cried burning tears asking for...
Homily on the Holy Great Martyr and equal to the Apostles Thekla
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios Our Church commemorates on the 24th of September a prominent saint, one of the great women of the Apostolic age, St. Thekla, the great Champion of the Faith. She was born in Iconium (today’s Konya) around the year 28 AD, to a pagan family. The Saint...
Conversations with Father Zacharias – More on love
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Question: Sometimes it is difficult to accept that our God of love can pronounce such words as ‘outer darkness’ (Matt. 8:12) or ‘the worm that dies not’ (Mark 9:44). Archim. Zacharias: On the one hand He says, ‘Him that cometh to Me I will in no...
On Love (2)
Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis There’s love in a Godly manner, but there’s also love in a devilish manner. There’s Godly hatred and also devilish hatred. Godly love is that which springs from the observance of His commandments. Devilish love is demonic, hedonistic, malevolent, such as, for example that which a...
Sunday after the Exaltation: Being and Having
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. The real scourge of humankind, particularly nowadays, is the feeling of insecurity and uncertainty which is the concomitant of sin, of our effort to revolt, that is, our desire to become ‘the masters of our fate’ and thereby...
Conversations with Father Zacharias – The Crucified eros
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Question: If earthly life without the love of Christ is deprived of all good, how much more is this true in the other world? Living without this love will be ‘the gnashing of teeth’ (Matt. 8:12), ‘the worm that dies not’ (Mark 9:44). Archim. Zacharias: One...
They need a shock
Abbess Christonymfi, Monastery of Our Lady the Queen of All, Keratea People today don’t understand, don’t repent, won’t come to their senses. The devil needs to butt them with his horns. Source: pemptousia.com
Legitimate Exercise
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos Whatever movement you make, starting with its conception and following through to the implementation, you have to examine all the time what God will take from it. Because that’s all that’ll remain; all the rest will be done away with. This is why we’re always telling...
In a strange manner
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos Abbas Pimen had a wonderful saying: ‘Bind yourself to a man who fears God and you will have fear of God’. Who is it who really fears God? People who are without passions, are virtuous, sanctified, and constantly repenting. And how beneficial it is for us...
