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The Cure of the Blind Man

Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia   ‘They saw a man blind from birth’ The curing of the man blind from birth is a terrible rebuke for the Pharisees, who didn’t want to accept the words of Christ. Before this momentous event, Christ had had an extensive dialogue Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekMay 20, 2023 ago
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Sunday of the Paralytic

Excerpt from a Homily by Saint John Chrysostom If someone’s really knowledgeable about gold mines, they wouldn’t be able to bear not examining the smallest vein for the wealth it contained. So, in the Scriptures, it’s impossible without loss to pass over the merest jot. We must investigate everything since Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksMay 7, 2023 ago
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Christ’s miraculous cure in Capernaum

Sotiris Stylianou   The Gospel extract which is read on 12 March 2023 is from Mark (2, 1-12)  and concerns the cure of a paralyzed man in Capernaum. The Lord was teaching in a certain house and so many people had come that there was no room to move. Four Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsMarch 13, 2023 ago
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The Repose of Father Job (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)

Elder Ephraim of Arizona †   In 1978 when I was at Philotheou Monastery, Father Job passed away. He was a good disciple of mine. Soon afterwards we had an all-night vigil for St. John the Forerunner. I have a soft spot for him, because I was born on his Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 9 monthsAugust 28, 2022 ago
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Geronda in Hawaii (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)

Elder Ephraim of Arizona †   Geronda loved the sea and trees. That is Geronda why, when I went to Hawaii to hear confessions in 1987, I saw him in a vision in the midst of orange trees. Those orange trees were tall and loaded with oranges and apples. Up Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 9 monthsAugust 27, 2022 ago
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Miracles, the ‘Signs’ of the New Life (7th Sunday of Matthew)

Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian   And the crowds marveled, saying, ‘Never was anything like this seen in Israel’ (Matth.. 9, 33). In today’s Gospel reading, mention is made of two miracles performed by Our Lord Jesus Christ. One is the cure of the two blind men and the other the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 10 monthsJuly 31, 2022 ago
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The everyday miracles we don’t notice

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   Saint Sophrony in Essex said that we still have not a few ascetics (whom the Lord has hidden) who don’t perform obvious miracles, though great miracles occur every day in their souls, unobserved by most people. One such miracle is when the soul leans towards pride, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 10 monthsJuly 21, 2022 ago
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‘Who is to blame?’ (Sunday of the Blind Man)

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich   ‘And his disciples asked him: “Teacher, who is to blame, him or his parents, that he was born blind’” (Jn. 9, 2). A short time before, the Lord had cured the paralytic at the pool of the Sheep’s Gate and had told him: ‘Go and sin Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 12 monthsMay 30, 2022 ago
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The Life-Giving Word (Sunday of the Paralytic)

Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.   The subject of the narrative in the Gospel of Saint John (5, 1) concerning the complaint of the man who’d been paralyzed for 38 years, is genuinely moving: ‘I have no-one to put me into the pool when Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearMay 17, 2022 ago
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A Multitude of Invalids

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the waters to be moved’. One of the factors of human existence, which often constitutes a trap Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearMay 16, 2022 ago

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