Κατηγορία

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1 Ιουνίου 2020
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Looking Down (Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos)

Κατηγορίες: Χωρίς κατηγορία

There are feasts in out tradition that don’t last long. For example, the Lord’s Ascension, for many people, is Christ’s return to heaven, leaving us alone to deal with what He bequeathed us: the Gospel, the life of the Church and the faith. And, looking up, we often wonder why He doesn’t come back down to order our lives. We have the impression that He’s forgotten us and that He Himself is waiting for the Second Coming to provide a definitive answer to the problem of death, to the problem of evil, to the problem of misery among people and in the world. The Ascension is associated with a return to the ‘Our Father’ and ‘Through the prayers’, with the ...

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31 Μαΐου 2020
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Don’t get upset (Abba Isaiah)

Κατηγορίες: Χωρίς κατηγορία

If the need arises for you to chastise one of the brotherhood, and you’re upset and angry, don’t speak at all, otherwise you’ll become even more distressed. But when you see both him and yourself in a better state of meekness, then speak- not to chide him, but as if you’re reminding him of the way things should be, with great humility.

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30 Μαΐου 2020
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Jesus Christ: the Son and Word of God (Sunday of the Holy Fathers) (Bishop Agathangelos of Fanari)

Κατηγορίες: Χωρίς κατηγορία

The Sunday of the Holy Fathers, which our Church celebrates during the period of Pentecost, is dedicated to the memory of the Holy and God-Bearing Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod in Nicea, at which Athanasios the Great and Saint Spyridon the Wonder-Worker were present and testified as to the true faith. The Synod, acting in the Holy Spirit, expressed the traditional faith of the Church and formulated its dogmatic teaching on the second Person of the Holy Trinity, that is, Jesus Christ the Son and Word of God, Who was both God and human. The importance of the 1st Ecumenical Synod lies in the fact that it protected the faith from the heretical teaching of Arius and his supporters, who ...

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