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Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis, the Wonder-Worker (1846-1920)

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Feast Day: 9 November The Road to Happiness Nothing’s greater than a pure heart, because such a heart becomes the throne of God. And what’s more glorious than the throne of God? Absolutely nothing. God says of those who have a pure heart: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to me’ (2 Cor. 6, 16). Who, then, are more happy than those people? And what good things do they lack? Don’t they find all good things and all the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their blessed souls? What else do they need? Nothing; in truth, nothing. Because they have in their hearts the greatest good: God Himself. People ...

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Life through Death (Luke 8, 41-56) (Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis)

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‘Do not weep. She has not died but is at rest*’. Then as now, these words of Christ challenge our reason and will always challenge us to put our trust and lay our hope in the reality of the mystery and truth of God. They invite us to look with faith at what is concealed in the dark looking-glass of death. It’s a fact that, from the moment people are born, there’s no other certainty than that they will die at some stage. And yet, this certainty is an unknown experience. We don’t have experience of our death. No-one’s lived through their biological death and can tell us what it means. Nobody can tell us what we’ll go through when ...

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Encyclical by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America: Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangels

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Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangels Prot. No. 206/2020 November 8, 2020 ‘Ορᾶτε μὴ καταφρονήσητε ἑνὸς τῶν μικρῶν τούτων· λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι οἱ ἄγγελοι αὐτῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς διὰ παντὸςβλέπουσι τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς. (κατά Ματθαίον 18:10) Take care...

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