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Love humility

Abba Isaiah   People who are humble, don’t have a tongue that makes observations about others who show neglect or who are living a casual life. They don’t have eyes that look out for failings in others, nor ears to listen to something that doesn’t benefit their soul. They aren’t Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 daysJanuary 25, 2023 ago
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The Manifestation of God’s Infinite Love

Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †   Christmas, which by God’s Grace we’re celebrating again this year, gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into the mystery of God’s love. His gifts to us are manifold and priceless. The greatest of them, however, is the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksDecember 28, 2022 ago
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A chat with Papa-Theoliptos. Love has a face

Ilias Liamis   ‘Father, I don’t love’. ‘Well done’. ‘Well done that I don’t love?’ ‘No, no. I mean something else’. ‘What would that be?’. ‘You’ll understand as we go on. Just tell me what you mean when you say you don’t love’. ‘I mean, I feel like my heart’s Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsOctober 20, 2022 ago
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Love for your enemies is a challenge of life (Luke 6, 31-36)

Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis   Christ stands us before a mirror today so that can see our weakness and monitor our condition. ‘As you wish people to do to you, do so to them’. In other words, do as you would be done by. Such an attitude is essentially the first Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 monthsOctober 5, 2022 ago
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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, 4 monthsOctober 2, 2022 ago
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Who loves perfectly?

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   I don’t know if, in other eras, people experienced confusion regarding words, that is, that they said one thing and meant another. Despite the great achievements of scientific progress, technological development, the shrinking of distances, and tremendous communications, I think that, in our own age there’s Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 monthsSeptember 27, 2022 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, 4 monthsSeptember 17, 2022 ago
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Motherhood as imitation of the selfless love of Christ

Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis   The truth of the Church regarding the equivalent position of women and men has been maintained even in times which were difficult for women in society, such as when the Turks occupied Greece. Indicative of this are the words of the great teacher of the Greeks, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 monthsAugust 18, 2022 ago
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Hypocritical faith and unfeigned love

Sophia Bekri, Theologian   The faith of both the paralytic and those who carried him (Matth. 9, 1-8) is really remarkable. Unable to help himself because of the nature of his illness, the man placed himself in the hands of his brethren and accepted their assistance with humility and aquiescence; Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 monthsJuly 29, 2022 ago
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What is the most characteristic quality of love?

Saint Luke the Doctor   The golden rule ‘Do to others as you would have them do to you’.  ‘If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.  And if you do good to those who are good to you, what Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 7 monthsJune 28, 2022 ago

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