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The Epistle Reading for the 4th Sunday in Lent

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †   In today’s Epistle, Saint Paul calls hope ‘a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul’. A ship without an anchor runs the risk of being dashed against the rocks along a coast. When people without hope are faced with the adversities of life, they’ve Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 daysMarch 26, 2023 ago
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The Veneration of the Cross

Fr. Alexander Schmemann   The Third Sunday of Lent is called “The Veneration of the Cross”. At the Vigil of that day, after the Great Doxology, the Cross is brought in a solemn procession to the center of the church and remains there for the entire week – with a special Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksMarch 18, 2023 ago
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Charity and Lent

Protopresbyter Antonios Christou   Dear readers, Great Lent is a time of strenuous, spiritual struggle with ourselves (less sleep, less nutrition, less ease and preoccupation with things we like doing, greater participation in the services and prayers, and so on). I don’t know, however, whether we truly realize the extent Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 weeksMarch 15, 2023 ago
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Great Lent: an empirical journey into the depths of our being

Elder Patapios Kavsokalyvitis, Superintendent of the Skete of the Holy Trinity, Mount Athos   By fasting, we learn to say ‘No’ to our desire for food and also learn to say ‘No’ to our  often self-destructive will. We also learn to say ‘Yes’ to God, which is always redemptive. We’ve Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksMarch 6, 2023 ago
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Sunday of Orthodoxy

Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos   On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is to say the feast of the restitution of the holy icons, as the Church once again, by the grace of God, vanquished the heresy of the iconoclasts and preserved with exactitude Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMarch 5, 2023 ago
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The Triodio and our spiritual life

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol   The time of the Triodio is the whole of our spiritual life in miniature. If you follow the messages in the hymns every day, it’s enough to show the journey you have to make in the struggle that awaits you. It begins with the basis Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMarch 4, 2023 ago
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From darkness to light

Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos   On the eve of our entry into Great Lent, everything in church speaks to us of repentance. The wonderful hymns ‘robe’ the message of repentance in a poetic manner; the Gospel reading gives us the keys to open the gates of repentance; and the Epistle reminds Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMarch 2, 2023 ago
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Lent: the other dimension of life

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   Amid the turbulence of our life, the deafening noise surrounding us, the long and pointless conversations on the telephone or in person, the stress and uncertainty regarding the state of the world today and tomorrow, the Church offers us the period of time of Great Lent. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMarch 1, 2023 ago
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The Struggle of Great Lent – ΙI

Elder Ephraim in Arizona †   Of course, we must keep the fast only as far as we’re able, with discretion, because we’re not all the same. “Unless the good be done well, it is not good”. In other words, unless good is done in a good way, method, time Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthFebruary 28, 2023 ago
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The Struggle of Great Lent – Ι

Elder Ephraim in Arizona †   At this time we’re entering the great spiritual arena of the blessed Great Lent. Holy and Great Lent is a time of compunction, for repentance, for tears, for a change in ourselves, for a new stage in the spiritual life. Like an affectionate mother Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthFebruary 27, 2023 ago

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