Ioannis Foundoulis † ‘We celebrate Pentecost and the visitation of the Spirit, the time appointed for the promise and the fulfillment of hope. How great is this mystery? It is both vast and most venerable. Therefore, we cry to you, Creator of all, Lord, glory to you’. The Church Read more…
Saint John Chrysostom This is the same Holy Spirit Who preached by the prophets, Who gave understanding to the Apostles, Who spoke to people. He was given to them by the Lord, and all their adversaries were unable to gainsay or resist Him. As the Lord said: ‘It is Read more…
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Our holy Church offers us another opportunity to remember and honor our dead people, our beloved persons who passed away, and all her members by whom we are in communion through God’ s love and the grace from Read more…
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK The Lord Jesus said that the Holy Spirit reproves the world ‘of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment’,[1] and this is not a reproving unto perdition, but unto life. If the Spirit of God is ‘in all Read more…
Saint John Chrysostom Let us extol the grace of the Holy Spirit in spiritual hymns, since grace has, on this day, manifested itself to us from heaven. Even though our words are inadequate to express the magnitude of this grace, we shall praise its power and activity insofar as Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came and instituted a feast that remains for ever. The coming of the Spirit reconfigured the time of our life making it all into a feast, imparting grace to us that we may draw nigh unto God. The Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou ‘I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely’[1]. During Great Lent, to a certain degree, we taste of Christ’s death. In the middle of this period, the Church institutes the Veneration of the Precious Cross, to quicken Read more…
Saint Justin Popovich Who is Jesus Christ, who is both God and human? What in him is God and what is human? How do we recognize the God in him and the human? What did God grant us in the person of Jesus? All of this is revealed to Read more…
Eleftherios Balakos “I shall be with you till the end of the world” (Matth. 28, 20). With these words, Christ bids farewell to His disciples at the Ascension, on the Mount of Olives. His last act is a departure and, at the same time, a pledge. This seems to Read more…
Join myOCN Interactive Virtual Community this Thursday, 6/17 at 7:00 pm EST. Register HERE. Guest host Hank Hanegraaff will be joined by special guest Fr. Lawrence Farley for a discussion on the Feast of Pentecost—living in the power of the Holy Spirit in celebration of the Resurrection and Ascension of Read more…