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LIVE Streaming Orthodox Church Services Around the World

Online Church Services Streamed from Your Device OCN offers online streaming of Orthodox worship services throughout the world. Watch them with your family or just have them play in the background. Please be sure to check to see the times of the services by visiting the respective homepages. Please also Read more…

By myOCN, 3 monthsFebruary 27, 2025 ago
Articles

Love is the Criterion of Faith and Works (2nd Sunday of Luke)

Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens   The Gospel reading for 2nd Luke comes from the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, in which almost all Jesus’ teaching during his public ministry is gathered together, emphasis is placed on the overall context of the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsOctober 1, 2023 ago
Articles

Faith in Christ is a matter of the heart

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   Faith in Christ is principally a matter of the heart, and then of reason. The Lord didn’t say, ‘If you understand me’, but ‘If you love me, keep my commandments’. This means that we can understand him to the degree that we try to love him. Read more…

By Dimitris Iliopoulos, 2 yearsAugust 1, 2023 ago
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Engaging the Senses: How the Orthodox Christian Church Appeals to All Five

In Orthodox Christianity, the five senses are seen as gifts from God, through which we can experience and understand the world around us. These senses are celebrated and celebrated through various sacraments, including baptism, chrismation, and Holy Communion. Today, the significance of the five senses in Orthodox Christianity remains relevant Read more…

By myOCN, 2 yearsJuly 5, 2023 ago
Articles

Our Orthodox Faith concerning God

Lambros Skontzos, Theologian   The feast of the Holy Spirit represents a special stage in the annual cycle of feasts in the Orthodox Church. On this holy day, we honor and venerate the Holy Spirit, who, the day before, had descended on the upper room in Jerusalem as ‘tongues of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsJune 10, 2023 ago
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How we should react to doubts about the faith

Saint Theophan the Recluse   Almost everyone has doubts about the faith at one time or another. It’s possible to dispel them, however, with opposing arguments which confirm the truth of the divine revelation regarding the world and humankind: the order and harmony of the universe; the miracle of life; Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMay 16, 2023 ago
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The supernatural requires faith and obedience

Saint John of Kronstadt   Before God made this beautiful world and the people in it, he knew that we would fall and, from the very beginning, had the means of setting us to rights after this fall. And that was to descend to earth himself, the Son of God, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsDecember 15, 2022 ago
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The Achievement of Faith (11th Sunday of Luke- of the Forefathers) [3]

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi   All the temptations, whenever they overcome us, do, indeed, injure us and are obstacles on our path. Their sole aim is to erode love. Satan concocts situations and events which, in essence, don’t really exist but which befuddle the minds of those who are either Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsDecember 12, 2022 ago
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The Achievement of Faith (11th Sunday of Luke- of the Forefathers) [2]

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi   Now we proceed with the same faith, which is no longer abstract, however, because the promises have come, the fullness of time has arrived, the incarnation of the Word of God has occurred and the ‘angel of great counsel’ has appeared (Is. 9, 6). Our Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsDecember 11, 2022 ago
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The Achievement of Faith (11th Sunday of Luke- of the Forefathers)

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi   The dismissal hymn for the feast of the Holy Forefathers, says: ‘You [i.e. Christ] justified the forefathers in faith, and through them betrothed Yourself, in advance, to the Church taken from out of the Gentiles’. These words, if you look at them carefully, are full Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsDecember 10, 2022 ago

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