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We don’t shoot the darkness… (Protopresbyter Georgios Dobarakis)

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‘We don’t shoot the darkness; we just turn the light on’ (Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis) The great contemporary saint and much-loved Elder Porfyrios is talking about an ordinary experience: if we want to get out of the dark, we don’t take violent action, such as taking potshots at it. All we do is turn the light on. He said this in order to emphasize that the same is true in the spiritual life. What’s that? Given that we live in a world which, because of sin, has lost contact with the light which is God, and are therefore living in spiritual darkness- ‘God is light and there is no darkness in Him’ - the only thing we can do is to turn ...

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The Triune God is our Saviour (Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian)

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Jesus taught in the synagogues on the Sabbath. The reason behind His choice of day was that the Sabbath was a day without work, dedicated to the worship of God. All tasks were completely forbidden. Even the distance you could walk was strictly regulated. So all the people gathered on those days in the synagogue in order to hear the word of God. One Sabbath, in one of the synagogues, a woman stood out from the crowd. Her body was badly bent over, so that she couldn’t stand up straight: ‘she could not straighten up at all’ (Luke 13, 11). For 18 years she hadn’t been able to look at people properly because of the problem. It was heart-breaking. Her ...

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Network of Orthodox Health Care Providers

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Today, as we live through the terrifying event of the pandemic, which has befallen us, we are called upon to respond to the enduring invitation of the Church to welcome and minister to our suffering brothers and sisters. We are invited to love and serve our fellow human beings. In particular, doctors and other health care providers, inspired by Christian solidarity, are called upon to shoulder the heavy burden and complete the task of the human effort to defend and treat other people all over the world. All such providers in the health sector deserve our warmest congratulations, since they do not merely turn up for work but also serve other people with their highly developed sense of self-denial. This corona ...

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