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Life of the Saints

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Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra

Saint Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople towards the middle of the ninth century, wrote a life of Saint Nicholas in which he declares that “up to the present the life of the distinguished shepherd has been unknown to the majority of the faithful.” Nearly five hundred years had passed since the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsDecember 6, 2022 ago
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Saint Porphyrios Kavsokalyvitis (Part III)

George Arvanitis   d) Immortality The victory over death, the sense and assurance of immortality is an experience that is common to all the saints and Elder Porphyrios himself. In the recorded interview mentioned above he also says: ‘The man who belongs to Christ should love Christ, and when he Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsDecember 3, 2022 ago
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Saint Porphyrios Kavskokalyvitis (Part II)

George Arvanitis   His most essential characteristics In our opinion, the most essential characteristics of Elder Porphyrios’s personality were as follows: first of all, the fact that his membership of the Church was of a substantial and not a nominal kind; secondly, his boundless love for Christ and through Him Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsDecember 2, 2022 ago
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Saint Porphyrios Kavskokalyvitis (Part I)

George Arvanitis   ‘Now you must be thinking, from what I’ve told you, that – well, I don’t know – I’m quite something. Well, I’m nothing, although I do try and am just beginning, it seems, to get a taste of the things that I talk about. I try to, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsDecember 1, 2022 ago
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Saint Catherine and the Smart Impious

James W. Lillie   What are we to make of Saint Catherine? We know really very little about her. Even her name is a mystery. According to some, she was originally called Damiani (by a happy coincidence the present Archbishop of Sinai and Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Katherine Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsNovember 25, 2022 ago
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Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis, the Wonder-Worker (1846-1920)

Feast Day: 9 November The Road to Happiness Nothing’s greater than a pure heart, because such a heart becomes the throne of God. And what’s more glorious than the throne of God? Absolutely nothing. God says of those who have a pure heart: ‘I will live with them and walk Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsNovember 9, 2022 ago
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Saint Anastasia of Rome

George Poulos   If it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, then it should have been virtually impossible for the beautiful and glamorous Ana­stasia to enter the service of Christ. The attributes Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsOctober 29, 2022 ago
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Saint Nestor, the Martyr for Christ

James W. Lillie   We know very little concerning the martyr Nestor, other than that he was a close spiritual brother of Saint Dimitrios. He may have volunteered to fight the giant Vandal, Lyaeus, in order to prevent other Christians being drafted in to do so against their will. According Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsOctober 27, 2022 ago
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Feast of Great Martyr Demetrios, The Myrrh-Streamer

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…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsOctober 26, 2022 ago
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The Great Martyr Saint Dimitrios

Pantelis Paschos, Professor of Theology   In a lyrical psalm [132], the great poet of our Church, the Prophet David, gives the name ‘myrrh’ to the spirit of unity among those dwelling together under the sanctified protection of the Church. They have common desires, longings, the same fight against the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsOctober 25, 2022 ago

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