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16 Μαΐου 2020
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Sunday of the Samaritan woman (John 4:5-42) (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this woman gives an example for converse with our fellow men. In this passage, on the one hand, we behold the majesty of God’s love, hunting man along all the paths of his life to work his salvation, and on the other, man even in the extremity of his fall able to co-work with God and ascend to an angelic height. The Jews considered the Samaritans unclean. This is superseded by Christ’s action, so the Apostle Paul ...

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16 Μαΐου 2020
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Deliverance from Thoughts (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast) (Elder Ephraim of Arizona †)

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Many other people received miraculous help from Elder Joseph. Father Prokopios, a disciple of harsh Papa-Nikiphoros, once was strongly tempted to abandon his elder. So Papa-Ephraim (who was also a disciple of Papa-Nikiphoros) advised him: “Go over to Elder Joseph, do a prostration at his grave, and you will feel relief from your thoughts.” Father Prokopios did as he said, and he later described what had happened as follows: When I set off from Katounakia, a fragrance enveloped me. When I reached Geronda’s grave, I did a prostration. I told him my thought, prayed, and then returned to Katounakia. On my way back, the same fragrance surrounded me. When I entered my cell that fragrance was gone, but the temptation also disappeared. ...

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