Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol How greatly almsgiving contributes to prayer. If you want to pray you have to become a generous person. Generous in the whole meaning of the word. If people say a kind word to someone else, or offer them something or give alms, this condition moves Read more…
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou In our quiet expectation of the great feast of Christmas, ‘the metropolitan of feasts’, the Gospel readings of this period revolve around the burning question: ‘What shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ Man was formed for eternity and his spirit urgently demands it. Even centuries Read more…
Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians At our birth, we set out on two journeys in life: the biological, here on earth, and the one which leads to heaven. We start off on these two parallel courses which we follow whether we want to Read more…
It’s said that, in this day and age, there’s a lot of mental and bodily pain. But it’s not only in our own times that we see illnesses, personal rivalries, stress and a mountain of difficulties which pressurize and crush people, wherever they live on earth. Of course, there’s no Read more…
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous The Book of the Elders [το Γεροντικό] mentions a question which Amma Theodora put to Patriarch Theofilos of Alexandria: ‘What does Saint Paul mean when he says: ‘Redeeming the time’ (Col. 4, 50) [In King James. The New International Version has ‘Make the most of every Read more…
Saint Efraim Katounakiotis People who praise others and reproach themselves have reached a measure of sanctity. If somebody distresses you and you ask them to make a prostration to you, you’ve got a problem. You’re quite wrong. Source: pemptousia.com
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous We all have our problems which might be obvious to others or not,[ and our worries, great or small. We want somebody to share them, not so much as to give us advice. Sharing them, mentioning them, brings relief to the soul. You feel as if Read more…
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis All the antagonism that we, regrettably, experience as people, between those we know and those we don’t, friends and enemies, religious-minded or otherwise, confirm the fact that, two thousand years after the coming of Jesus Christ, we’re in a state of ignorance regarding God, who’s already Read more…
Ioannis Moskhos Heretics Return The ‘Severus’ mentioned in the text was Patriarch of Antioch from 512 until 518, when he was deposed. He continued to be regarded as Patriarch by those who did not accept the Christological terminology of the Ecumenical Synod of Chalcedon (451). He is honored as Read more…