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A joyous reflection on the Newly-canonized Saints (Stelios Koukos)

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Note: This is a pious reflection by a layman on the joy being experienced at the newly-announced upcoming canonization of new Saints of our Church. In a world with so much pain, sorrow, suffering and hatred (along with painful divisions among Orthodox Christians), we are thankful for these tokens of joy given by our Lord. We pray that these new Saints will entreat Him that peace be granted to the whole world, and especially that all hatred, divisions and animosity be dissolved between Orthodox Christians, and that we all might be granted love, humility, peace and unity in the Holy Trinity! A joyous reflection on the Newly-canonized Saints It feels like this is a festival without end–the joy of Pascha–which was given ...

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‘When I was illustrating the book I felt awe, as if I were holding holy relics’ (Christos Gousidis)

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An interview with Stelios Koukos After his work on the graphic novel ‘Visit to the Loft’, about the childhood of Saint Nektarios, the multi-talented artist Christos Gousidis has now turned his attention to a childhood event in the life of another saint, Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis. The book is called Τρίτο Ταξίδι, Αλήτης για την αγάπη του Χριστού , published by En Plo, and it describes the  frantic efforts of young Evangelos Baïraktaris (Saint Porfyrios) to reach the ‘Bower of the Mother of God’ and live the life of the ascetics. The cover of the book ‘The Third Journey. A Drifter for Christ’s Love (detail) In essence, Gousidis’ task was to illustrate the original narrative as told in the book Γέροντος Πορφυρίου, Βίος και Λόγοι ...

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Dogmatic Guidance (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast) (Elder Ephraim of Arizona †)

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Elder Joseph has appeared even to people who did not know about him. Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesos in Cyprus told the following about a woman in America: She was a good person, but she had been misled by Jehovah’s Witnesses and began to associate with them and accepted their heretical views. One night Elder Joseph appeared to her and started teaching her that what she was doing would destroy her soul. He then took her by the hand and said, “Come, I will take you to venerate Christ, and you will see that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are wrong.” He then took her before Christ, and then Christ Himself told her that our Church has the truth. Source: Elder Efraim (of Arizona), My ...

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