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The Spiritual Desert of Our Times (John G. Panagiotou)

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Over the last several weeks and months, the world has been gripped by the turmoil that the Coronavirus pandemic has wrought upon its seven billion people.  Whether affected directly or not, we all have been impacted by its physical, social, psychological, and financial punch.  This pandemic will be remembered by historians as one of the major global events of the twenty-first century. One of its most paralyzing fangs of this invisible enemy has been the feeling of isolation that the necessary practice of social distancing has had on people.  Out of protection for ourselves and love and concern for others, sensible and responsible people have had to physically separate themselves from other people outside of their immediate household. In the news, we ...

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Hymns from the Service of Saint Nikiforos the Leper

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Advice from the Holy Mountain is that in these difficult times we should pray to Saint Nikiforos the Leper, a saint who was canonized as recently as 2012. His Life is available on the web, at sites such as, for example https://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicephorus_the_Leper or https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2016/01/04/205506-saint-nikephoros-the-leper. We at Pemptousia have therefore decided to provide a translation of some of the most important hymns from the service, kindly made available in the original Greek by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi. Ideally, we would prepare a translation of the Paraclitic Canon, which might still happen, time permitting, but meanwhile the following hymns can be used as prayers. W. J. Lillie Doxastiko of the Stichera Come, let us all honor venerable Nikiforos, the lover of godliness, ...

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