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1 Φεβρουαρίου 2021
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The First Resurrection (Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos)

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What was Christ’s greatest miracle? Most people would say the raising of Lazarus. But Saint Isaac the Syrian disagrees, saying: ‘Someone who is aware of his or her sins and genuinely repents is on a higher level than a person who raises the dead. Raising a sinner from the necrosis of sin is greater than raising the body of a corpse. Certainly, all the occasions when Christ and the saints raised people in the body are astonishing miracles and are testimony to his victory over death and to the ‘general resurrection’ of our bodies which will be granted to us at his Second Coming. But if we are to share in the eternal glory of his reign, this requires the incomparably ...

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1 Φεβρουαρίου 2021
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What delusion, what feebleness (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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What darkness, what derangement, what weakness and what a terrible, deathly force sin is. Why should we hate somebody else because their character’s different from ours? Because they disagree with us? Or because they don’t fuel our ego or feed our passions? Doesn’t each of us have our own free will, our own particular character, temperament, habits and ways of doing things? We should be gracious towards everyone and should respect their freedom, which even God Himself doesn’t violate. Saint John Kronstadtskij

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31 Ιανουαρίου 2021
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Love silence (Saint Theophan the Recluse)

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Cultivate within yourself the fear of God and reverence for His inexpressible majesty. Have a broken and contrite heart. Consider everyone to be better than you. Love silence, isolation, and interaction with the Lord, who will become your guide and teacher. Saint Theophan the Recluse

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30 Ιανουαρίου 2021
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Time and Eternity (George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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As an interpreter of the Christian view of time, Basil the Great reveals to us a new perspective, which leads to a creative, transcendent synthesis. This new perspective, which was more than ancient Greek philosophy and, indeed, human thought in general were able to achieve, is offered by the Church. The Church, not as a worldly, social reality, but as the body of Christ, who ‘is, was and will come’ . As his body, which combines the dimensions of time and incorporates them as a person in the eternal ‘now’ of his presence. Within the Church, remembrance of the past becomes remembrance in Christ. Hope for the future becomes hope in Christ. This is why the life of Christians as ...

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30 Ιανουαρίου 2021
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The Three Hierarchs (Ioannis Foundoulis †)

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On 30 January, the Church celebrates the memory of the three great hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. This is not a commemoration in the strict sense of the word, i.e. the anniversary of the death of these Fathers, but a common feast, a “synaxis”, to use liturgical terminology. Basil the Great died on 1 January in the year 379 and his memory is celebrated, as is well-known, on January 1; Gregory the Theologian departed this life on 25 January, 389, so his feast is just past; and John Chrysostom fell asleep in the Lord on 14 September 407, on the day of the Elevation of the Precious Cross. The latter’s commemoration has been moved, however, ...

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