Saint Nikodimos the Athonite Secondly, God created the perceptible world in six days. He bedecked the heavens with the multitude of stars and the suns; He adorned the earth with all manner of plants and animals; He filled the air with the sweet trilling of the birds. Finally, He Read more…
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite If, my beloved fathers and brethren, I were granted the gift of acquiring one of the tongues which the angels have, as the Apostle of Christ Paul says, (“even if I speak in the tongues of the Angels”) it would be certain and only to Read more…
Saint Demetrios suffered in Thessalonica during the reign of Galerius Maximian (c. 306). He belonged to one of the most distinguished families of the province of Macedonia and was widely admired not only because of his noble ancestry and grace of bearing, but also for virtue, wisdom and goodness of Read more…
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The Transfiguration of the Saviour occupies a central position in the Orthodox Church and theology. It is the event that reveals the glory of the Church and of the faithful. It is the evidence of Read more…
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK The Lord Jesus said that the Holy Spirit reproves the world ‘of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment’,[1] and this is not a reproving unto perdition, but unto life. If the Spirit of God is ‘in all Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came and instituted a feast that remains for ever. The coming of the Spirit reconfigured the time of our life making it all into a feast, imparting grace to us that we may draw nigh unto God. The Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou ‘I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely’[1]. During Great Lent, to a certain degree, we taste of Christ’s death. In the middle of this period, the Church institutes the Veneration of the Precious Cross, to quicken Read more…
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios ‘Behold, this child is set for the fall and resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against’ (Luke 2, 34). This prophecy was made during the lifetime of Christ, but continues to be effective in the history of humankind Read more…
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos Already we’re in the second month of the New Year. And we begin with the feast of the Reception of Christ, on February 2. It’s a very great feast. Christ is received by a man for whom the expectation of this moment governed his life. He Read more…
Sophia Kafkopoulou Today, 30 January, we celebrate the three hierarchs. There are lots of hierarch saints whom we honour throughout the year in the Church, but this is a feast of three together, although they also each have their own day on which we commemorate them. They’re Basil the Read more…