Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this Read more
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios Beloved brothers and sisters, when he was speaking one time to the elders of the Church of Ephesus, Saint Paul told them that he was aware that, after he left them, savage wolves would come in among them and would not spare the Read more
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios What should be admired first from what the Evangelist Luke told us today? The people of Galilee, who thirsted to hear the words of Jesus? They filled the shore of Lake Gennesaret as soon as they learned that Jesus was there, and they longed to Read more
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis Even though it’s been answered a thousand times, the question is often posed as to why Saint Paul is so ‘provocative’ in his letter to the Ephesians, which is read at the marriage service. He says: ‘and let the wife fear her husband’ and that she Read more
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery Nowadays when science and technology are flying, when cultures converge and there is a crisis in values, even the word ‘death’ is avoided and anything reminiscent of it is ignored and discarded. Modern man views death as something negative and as a Read more
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘…and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 1, 11). The feast of the Transfiguration, largely forgotten as regards much of our secularized life, is a great festival and a reminder that our life is Read more
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous Shortly before Christ ascended the cross, he took Peter and James and John up onto a high mountain and was transfigured before them. Two features are woven into the fabric of the event of the transfiguration: the cross and height. The cross of each of us, Read more
Sister Parakliti, Holy Skete of Saint Mary Magdalene, in Liti Grief has its own stages. According to the psychological approach [1], we need to pass through them with care and support. We need time to begin to discover meaning in everything that’s happening to us. With Magdalene, it didn’t Read more
Sister Parakliti, Holy Skete of Saint Mary Magdalene, in Liti This year, we’d like to dedicate the great virtue, that of love, to the memory of Saint Mary Magdalene. In volume two of the Philokalia, we find the ‘Four Hundred Texts on Love’ by Saint Maximos the Confessor. There Read more
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos A superficial reading of the epistle for the 6th Sunday of Matthew gives the impression of dry moralism. The apostle twice repeats the exhortation to the faithful to learn to take the lead in the performance of good deeds, which he considers to be examples of spiritual Read more