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God Never Ends

Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages by Fr. Stavros N. Akrotirianakis, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. […]

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Prayer One—Many Intentions

Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages by Fr. Stavros N. Akrotirianakis, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of […]

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Lord Have Mercy

The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent; but they cried out the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” Matthew 20:31 We have already discussed that the Biblical Greek word for “oil” is “eleon.” This is closely related to the word for “mercy” which is “eleos.” There is […]

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Psalm 143

Teach me the way I should go, for to Thee I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8 There are two Psalms that are read in the early part of the sacrament of Holy Unction. These Psalms are also my personal go-to Psalms. They are both read at every Orthros, Paraklesis, Salutations to […]

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The Lord’s Prayer

Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages by Fr. Stavros N. Akrotirianakis, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 5:11 Last week, on February 23, the Prayer […]

My Neighbour, my Salvation

Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos   One of the greatest problems of Orthodox spirituality in recent years has been the distortion applied to Orthodox eschatology, that is the prophetic discourse concerning the last times. It’s common for spiritually inexperienced people, without any real knowledge of what Orthodoxy means or […]

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Time and Human Life

George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   Time is interwoven with life and brings it to death. Just as passengers on a ship are brought to harbor, even if they’re asleep and not aware of anything, so we’re all brought to the […]

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