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OCN Weekly Printable Children’s Word

  Welcome to “The Children’s Word,” a weekly ministry of the Orthodox Christian Network. Each week, Presvytera Alexandra Houck writes this little newsletter for young parishioners! You will find age-appropriate articles, stories, and activities in every edition. The newsletter is provided in PDF format so that you can easily download Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 1 dayJanuary 25, 2023 ago
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Saint Maximus the Greek

Georgios Martzelos     St Maximos the Greek was one of the most distinguished monks and theologians of the 16th century, famed for his missionary activities and reforming achievements in the Russia of his time. He was born in Arta in around 1470 of respected and prosperous parents, and his Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 daysJanuary 21, 2023 ago
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Saint Basil and our Spiritual Roots

Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.   Whenever there’s mention of Saint Basil, we always highlight his studies in Athens, his ascetic life in Pontus, his lack of possessions, his contributions to society, and his literary oeuvre. It’s certainly true that the author of that outstanding theological Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksJanuary 2, 2023 ago
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The Miraculous Appearance of the Archdeacon, Saint Stephen, in Karyes

Monk Lazaros Dionysiatis   Our holy Abbot, Archimandrite Gavriil, had gone to Karyes for the Double Assembly which had been called by the Holy Community, and on his return told us about the appearance of the Holy First-Martyr Stephen, which occurred in the chapel in our representative’s house (konaki). On Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthDecember 27, 2022 ago
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Saint Eugenia the Abbot

Archimandrite Ananias Koustenis   Today we celebrate the memory of a great saint, the holy blessed virgin martyr Evyenia. She lived at the time of Decius, in the mid-third century, in Old Rome, the great world power of the time. Old Rome, because later came New Rome, Constantinople, which is Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthDecember 24, 2022 ago
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The Holy Martyr Ignatios the God-Bearer

Saint John Chrysostom   At one time, a terrible war broke out against the Churches and spread all over the world like a most dreadful tyranny, with people being seized from the market place on no other accusation but that they had become free of delusion and had hastened towards Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthDecember 20, 2022 ago
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Saint Patapios of Thebes, the Wonderworker

† Dionysios, Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani   Today the Church celebrates and honours the memory of the blessed Patapios the Desert-Dweller. This is the title accorded to the saint who lived in isolation in the desert, leaving behind the turmoil and joys of the secular life. He was born Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsDecember 8, 2022 ago
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Syrian Saints: Barbara of Heliopolis & John of Damascus

James W. Lillie   The Holy Great Martyr Barbara lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, Dioskoros, was a rich pagan, a prominent citizen in Ilioupolis in Syria. After the death of his wife, he devoted himself to the upbringing of his only daughter. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsDecember 4, 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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