The Centurion’s Servant

Sotiris Stylianou   The Gospel Reading for the 4th Sunday of Matthew (Matthew 8, 5-13) is concerned with the  miraculous healing of the centurion’s servant. While the Lord was in the town of Capernaum, he was approached by a Roman, a pagan, who held the rank of centurion in the army, that Read more

The Call of the Disciples

Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia   ‘He called them’ In the Gospel reading for the 2nd Sunday of Matthew, Jesus invites the first four disciples to follow him. These were Peter, Andrew and the brothers, James and John. In the Gospels, it appears that Christ called these disciples Read more

We Must Be Merciful If We Expect God to Be Merciful

This article was originally published on August 20, 2017 Listen Now. We will now be including the daily reading of Epistle and Gospel with The Prayer Team. At that time, Jesus said this parable, “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his Read more