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The rich young man in today’s Gospel reading seems to have metaphysical concerns and considerable spiritual interests. His young heart burned for the sublime, the eternal, the things to come. He approached the Lord with zeal and with a genuine willingness to learn. A desire and flame had awakened within him which forced him to approach Christ and ask Him the following question: ‘Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ The Lord replies: ‘Why do you call me good, since you consider me to be a normal person? No-one’s completely good except God alone’. Thereafter Jesus reminds the young man of the commandments of the Law of Moses: don’t commit adultery, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t bear false ...

Struggle with all your power to gain Paradise. And do not listen to those who say that everyone will be...

To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the reverend priests and deacons, the monks and nuns, the Presidents and Members of the...

Christians have no right to harbor feelings of ill-will towards other people. Such sentiments are the work of the devil. Christians should have nothing but love in their heart, which means they can’t think about wickedness and can’t have bad thoughts about others.

In his First Epistle, Saint John the Evangelist tells us that the aim of Christ’s redemptive work was the abolition of the devil’s dominion over human nature: ‘The Son of God appeared so that He might destroy the works of the devil’ (1 Jn. 3, 8). The Lord didn’t just destroy the works of the devil, but the devil himself. We can see this happening in the temptations in the wilderness, in the healing of those possessed and, in particular, in His death on the Cross. 1. The temptations in the wilderness. After His baptism in the River Jordan, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness, in order to face the temptations of the devil and defeat him. Through ...

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Saturday attended the enthronement of new Metropolitan of Kalavryta and...

Excessive concern for the cares of this life is a sign of someone who’s mean-spirited and a non-believer. And it’s a disaster if we are so bent on looking after ourselves that we don’t depend on God, Who makes provision for everything for us.

In the city of Ankara, in Galatia, there once lived a monk. We don’t know when he lived. We don’t even know his name. The little we do know about him is that he came from the army, lived near the bishop of the city and was so philanthropic and charitable that he’d even go round at night to help those in need. The clothing he wore wasn’t worth a mite and his food was commensurate. When he was given books, he’d sell them straight away and give the proceeds to the poor. Even if he’d kept the books, he wouldn’t have read them, because his constant involvement with charity precluded any ‘poring over codices’. He hurried around everywhere, to prisons, to hospital ...

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  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, in a sermon, this week referred to the manner in which...

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, on Thursday officiated at the Feast Day of the Archangels, which the Serbian...

  The Patriarch of Jerusalem on Thursday was bestowed the Prize of Patriarch Alexy II, for 2018, by the Unity...

  Friday marks the 28th anniversary of the repose of the Elder Iakovos Tsalikis of Evia, who was canonized by...

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week again reiterated the determination of Hellenism and...

  Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Friday received at the Archdiocese the US ambassador to...

Ask the angels and the saints to intercede for you, just as you’d ask people who are alive. Stand face to face with them, in the belief that they’re also standing face to face with you.

On Wednesday, 20 November 2019, His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, conducted at the Patriarchal Church a memorial service for the...

If one were to attempt to describe the role and purpose of the Church in a single phrase, one might say that: ‘The aim of the Church is to manifest God to people’. In order to achieve this goal, the Church uses theology, which expresses the faith of the Church in two ways: either through words or through images. However, the power of words and images, when attempting to reveal God, are necessarily limited and so, if we’re to understand their content properly, we have to approach them with great care and always to be aware of the requirements this approach implies. A typical example of the use of images, of icons, to express the faith of the Church is ...

A new convent has opened in the Diocese of Nyeri and Mt. Kenya in the Patriarchate of Alexandria. “Welcome to...

The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago and Young Adult League Chicago announced today that Chicago is the host of the...