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8 Δεκεμβρίου 2020
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Lighter than a feather (Saint John Chrysostom)

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The prayer of the Church has such great power that even were we to be less capable of speech than rocks are, it could make our tongue lighter than a feather. Just as a breeze makes a boat speed faster than an arrow when it fills its sails, so the prayer of the Church, when it falls from the tongue of those saying it, makes the words  stronger than the breeze. Saint John Chrysostom

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7 Δεκεμβρίου 2020
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Form and Substance (Luke 12, 10-17) (Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis)

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Today’s Gospel reading is a clear and obvious condemnation of religious formalism. Saint Luke the Evangelist tells us that Christ healed people on the Sabbath and that this brought Him into conflict with the Judaism of His era, which had transformed the Ten Commandments and the Law into a barren system of obligations and restrictions. The absurdity in the reactions of the religious establishment was tragic. The leader of the synagogue was indignant because the Lord’s miracle breached the rules for the observation of the Sabbath, which came from God. So the message of today’s excerpt touches and concerns all of us, since we often, perhaps subconsciously, prioritize certain religious and ritual forms without any corresponding sensitivity in our heart or ...

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