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Patience

Κατηγορίες: In English

‘By your patience possess your souls,’ (Lk 21:19) Patience is something we often advise others to implement, yet when it...

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Living Images (Titus 3, 8-15) (Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos)

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Today the Church celebrates the memory of the holy Fathers of the 7th Holy and Ecumenical Synod, which was called in Nicaea, Bithynia, in the year 787, and was presided over by Saint Tarasios, the Patriarch of Constantinople. It was attended by three hundred and fifty Orthodox bishops, to whom were added another seventeen hierarchs, and also boasted the presence of one hundred and thirty six monks who had suffered terrible persecution under the iconoclast emperors Leo III and his son Konstantinos V. The particpants anathematized the heretics who, for more than fifty years had forbidden Orthodox Christians to honor the venerable icons of Christ and His saints, supposedly because this constituted idolatry. The most reliable truth At first sight, today’s epistle ...

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