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Annunciation

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Homily on the Annunciation

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   Today Gabriel, who stands before God, came to the pure virgin, announcing the glad tidings: ‘Hail, you who are full of grace’. She tried to think what kind of salutation this might be. But the angel went straight on Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMarch 25, 2023 ago
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The Joy of the Annunciation

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   The Feast of the Annunciation lends a pre-Paschal feeling to Great Lent, during which it always falls. The atmosphere of compunction recedes and gives way to the joy of the great feast. This is why we have a dispensation to eat fish. The hymns, the celebrations Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMarch 24, 2023 ago
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Easter before Easter, the Annunciation of the Resurrection

Father Nikolaos Patsalos   This year, the 5th Sunday in Lent coincided with the great feast of the Mother of God, her Annunciation. We’d left the middle of Lent the previous Sunday, that of John of the Ladder, and, instead of the 5th being centred on the great desert ascetic, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 26, 2022 ago
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First Discourse on the Annunciation (part 3)

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   Just as the pearl comes from two natures, from lightning and water, from the unfathomable parts of the sea, so also our Lord Jesus Christ proceeds, without confusion and without change, from the pure, chaste, undefiled and holy Virgin Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 25, 2022 ago
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First Discourse on the Annunciation (part 2)

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   [The archangel continued]: ‘You alone, All-Holy Virgin, now receive the mysteries unknown to all of these and learn their origin. For where the Holy Spirit is, everything is already well-ordered. Where there is Divine Grace, everything is possible for Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMarch 24, 2022 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

First Discourse on the Annunciation (part 1)

Saint Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of New Caesarea (ca. 213-270)   Today, the ranks of the angels rejoice at the hymns being sung and the light of the presence of Christ shines brightly upon the faithful. Today, is glad spring-time for us, and Christ the Sun of Righteousness shines all Read more…

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

From heaven Gabriel cries Hail to the Virgin

Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian   ‘From heaven Gabriel cries Hail to the Virgin’ [1]. Glad tidings indeed today for Orthodoxy. A feast of the Lord and the Mother of God. Of the Lord because is has to do with Our Lord Jesus Christ who was conceived in the womb of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsMarch 26, 2021 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Saint Justin Popović, the ‘Evangelist’ of the Mystery of the Annunciation

Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian   Saint Justin (Popović) was born on March 25, 1894, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, in the town of Vranje in Southern Serbia, to devout parents, Father Spiridon and Tashe (Anastasia). At his baptism, in the church of the Annunciation, he was Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 years ago
The Children's Word

Be Faithful ALL the Time

Did you ever have a friend or a classmate who was nice to you sometimes…but then ignored you other times? Maybe you played together and hung out together a lot…but then all of a sudden that friend didn’t want to be with you? That sure doesn’t feel good, does it? Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 5 yearsMarch 18, 2020 ago
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Saint Justin Popović, the ‘Evangelist’ of the Mystery of the Annunciation

Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian   Saint Justin (Popović) was born on March 25, 1894, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, in the town of Vranje in Southern Serbia, to devout parents, Father Spiridon and Tashe (Anastasia). At his baptism, in the church of the Annunciation, he was Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMarch 30, 2019 ago

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