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Christmas can be approached only through faith

Athanasios Moustakis     ‘When Abraham was called, by faith…’ As is the case every year, the Epistle reading for the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ focuses on faith. It consists of two excerpts from chapter 11 of Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews (verses 9-10 and 32-40) in which Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 8 monthsDecember 23, 2021 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, 8 monthsDecember 15, 2021 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, 8 monthsDecember 14, 2021 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, 8 monthsDecember 13, 2021 ago
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The Gift and Pain of Mystical Faith

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   Those who, at some period in their life, have had a routine for prayer, spiritual study and participation in the services of the Church and then somehow, because of some ‘concerns of life’, lost it feel a void. This is why, when they’re asked ‘How’s it Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 9 monthsNovember 23, 2021 ago
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Martyr Sophia and her 3 Daughters: Faith, Hope and Love

Georgios Papademetropoulos   The holy martyr Sophia and her three daughters, Elpis (Faith), Pistis (Hope) and Agapi (Love) [Sophia, here is taken to be a woman’s name rather than “Wisdom”, as in the church of Holy Wisdom (Agia Sophia) in Constantinople; similarly, the third daughter is Love, in accordance with Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 11 monthsSeptember 17, 2021 ago
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Faith in Christ is a Matter of the Heart

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   Faith in Christ is firstly a matter of the heart and then of reason. The Lord didn’t say ‘Keep my commandments if you understand me’, but ‘if you love me’, which means that we can understand him only to the extent to which we love him. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearAugust 3, 2021 ago
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Recognizable Attributes of the Christian Faith

Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis   […] Our religion is love, it’s burning love, it’s excitement, it’s madness, it’s longing for God. It’s all of this, within us. Our soul demands that we make these things our own. For lots of people, though, religion’s a struggle, a worry and an anxiety. This Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearJuly 15, 2021 ago
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Creation and Faith

Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis   Enjoy everything around us. Everything teaches us and brings us to God. Everything around is a drop of God’s love. The animate, the inanimate, plants and animals, birds and mountains, the sea, the sunset and the starry sky. They’re little loves, through which we come to Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearJune 28, 2021 ago
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Christ is Risen! Now, What?

Let’s Talk with Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis. We’ve made the Lenten journey, completed Holy Week and celebrated the Resurrection.  Now, what?  How can we keep the focus of Lent and the joy of the Resurrection from fading away? Why does this journey even matter? Thursday, 5/13 at 7pm EST. Join the Read more…

By Fr. Chris Metropulos, 1 yearMay 13, 2021 ago

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