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28 Μαρτίου 2020
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The Power of Faith (4th Sunday in Lent) (Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.)

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The incident mentioned in today’s Gospel reading (Mark 9, 17-31) is placed immediately after the Lord’s descent from the mountain on which He was transfigured before three of His disciples. After the glory of the transfiguration, Christ encounters human wretchedness in all its tragic woe: a suffering father begs Jesus to heal his sick child, whom the other disciples, that is the nine, had previously been unable to cure. So, Christ was faced, on the one hand, with suffering and bruised humanity, and, on the other, his surrogates, who were unable to help. And, as if this weren’t enough, He also saw the scribes, that is the theologians of Judaism, talking to His disciples and doubtless trying to shake their ...

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28 Μαρτίου 2020
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Romania’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr Matei Balș” thanked all those who have shown their willingness to support...

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28 Μαρτίου 2020
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Do your duty, help others and be useful (Saint John Chrysostom)

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There’s nothing worse than Christians who don’t save other people. Don’t cry poverty, because you’ll be condemned by the widow who put in her two mites. Don’t claim that you come from a humble background, because the Apostles were insignificant and then became important. Don’t go on about your illiteracy, because they were also illiterate. Even if you’re a slave, if you’re a fugitive, you can do your duty, because Onisimos was one such. Yet, look at how Saint Paul calls him and advances him to high office ‘so that he might serve me in these chains’. And don’t claim that you’re ill, because Timothy also suffered from ‘frequent illnesses’. Don’t you see the barren trees, how strong and lovely they are, ...

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