Κατηγορία

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The easiest place (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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The purer a heart is, the larger and more open it is, and the more easily it finds space to accommodate more people. The more sinful it is, the more it contracts, shuts down, and so it can find room for only a few.

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Pentecost (Ioannis Foundoulis †)

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‘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 places this wonderful hymn at the threshold of the feast of Pentecost. It is an encapsulation of the ‘vast and most venerable’ mystery we celebrate on that day: the fulfillment of hope, the time appointed for the promise and the descent of the Holy Spirit. Because, indeed, the event we celebrate, the breathing of the Holy Spirit on Christ’s Apostles represents the culmination of the whole task of salvation. All the activity of Christ- His ...

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