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The Triodio and our spiritual life

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol   The time of the Triodio is the whole of our spiritual life in miniature. If you follow the messages in the hymns every day, it’s enough to show the journey you have to make in the struggle that awaits you. It begins with the basis Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksMarch 4, 2023 ago
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Genuine or affected godliness

Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos   As we enter the time of the Triodio, a period of contrition, the Church loses no time in reminding us of the clear distinction between genuine and affected godliness. At the start of the spiritual struggle, which will soon be intensified as we begin Great Lent, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthFebruary 10, 2023 ago
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Triodio, the Effort to Rescue the Human Person

Protopresbyter Antonios Christou   Dear readers, it’s true that this year we were going to try to avoid referring to the time of the Triodio, because we’ve done so at length in the past, in some of our older articles, and it’s not good, it’s tedious, to return to the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthFebruary 8, 2023 ago
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Humility and prayer (Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee)

Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari   The contrast in the image of the parable is stark. ‘Two men went up to the sanctuary to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a publican’. In the first scene of the parable, the attitude of the Pharisee at prayer is described, as Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthFebruary 7, 2023 ago
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The Tax-collector and the Pharisee and the Lenten Triodion

Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou   There is more to Lent than fasting, and there is more to fasting than food. This principle lies at the heart of the Lenten Triodion, the main hymnbook of Lent. Lent is without doubt the richest and most distinctive season of the ecclesiastical year. The Lenten Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsFebruary 5, 2023 ago
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The Old Testament Readings in the Triodio

Georgios Zaravelas, Theologian   Great Lent is the most holy and the most conservative time in the liturgical year. Among the ancient ritual customs during this period is the particular arrangement of the readings of extracts from books of the Old Testament. In the 7th century, such readings formed the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 12 monthsApril 4, 2022 ago
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The Privilege of Prodigality

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   If we adapt the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee to today’s conditions, we might say  that it’s addressed to religious-minded people who are confident in their good works and their virtue, justifying themselves and rejecting sinners of every stripe. By the same token, the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearFebruary 21, 2022 ago
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Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †   19 February 1984 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Time and again I have occasion to preach on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, on the story of the Publican and the Pharisee, and every time I notice how Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearFebruary 20, 2022 ago
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Genuine Devotion and Tainted Piety (2 Tim. 3, 10-15)

Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos   As we enter the reflective period of the Triodio, the Church urges us to remember the clear distinction between genuine devotion and tainted piety. At the beginning of this spiritual struggle, which will soon intensify with our entry into Great Lent, the Church reminds us of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearFebruary 15, 2022 ago
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The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

Monk Agapios From the Kyriakodromion of Monk Agapios The Holy Fathers of the Church have commanded us to sing and read today about the case and parable of the Publican and the Pharisee, in order that we might prepare for the spiritual struggles and warfare of Holy Lent, which is approaching. This Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearFebruary 13, 2022 ago

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