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The Second Monday of Great Lent. The Sunday of Orthodoxy

03/10/2025

~ By Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos On the first Sunday of Lent [yesterday, Sunday], we celebrate[d] the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is to say the feast of the restitution of the holy icons, as the Church once again, by the grace of God, vanquished the heresy of the iconoclasts and preserved with exactitude the faith and the tradition of the Holy Fathers of the Church, as it has been preserved throughout the ages. This faith

The Thirty-Eighth Day of Christmas Advent. What Shall We Offer You, O Christ?

12/22/2020

The Church’s liturgy of the winter festal season speaks not only of the hospitality which the Son of God comes to give to His people. It tells also of the hospitality which He hopes to receive from them when He comes. The songs and hymns of the services call the faithful to welcome God’s Son, to accept Him, to greet Him, to go forth to meet Him. The most wise Lord comes to be born,

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Pascha. Endless Suffering

05/09/2018

Earthly existence is for man an endless suffering. Why do we bear all this? Because the Creator has come and has dwelt among us. And we now know Him personally. We are created ‘in the image and likeness of God’. When we measure the reality of our everyday life against this divine revelation, we fall into despair. Why is it so difficult to act as a Christian in the here and now? Because it is

God Is Humble Enough to Be Anonymous

08/23/2016

I think the notion of love has been seriously minimized by today’s popular understanding of love, as we see with Valentine’s Day. This secular holiday reveals a very unsustainable notion of love as romance, infatuation (ignis fatuus, false fire), impassioned sex, sentimental words, romantic gift giving, etc. It eventually creates cynicism and disillusionment because the promise is so high but incomplete. It is never the whole story. When we experience love as different than culture’s

Voices of Wisdom (III)

09/03/2015

In all forms of ego-defense, from the generation of bodily aches and pains and itches to distract one from quiet to the beginning stages of spiritual narcissism as manifested in expectations and false dark nights, the ego is reacting against an intentional attempt to enter into willingness and surrender. It is defending itself against an outright, self -imposed attack. People whom William James considered to be a “once-born” or “healthy” mentality may be spared all

The Jesus Hermeneutic

09/29/2014

You deserve to know my science for interpreting sacred texts. It is called a “hermeneutic.” Without an honest and declared hermeneutic, we have no consistency or authority in our interpretation of the Bible. My methodology is very simple; I will try to interpret Scripture the way that Jesus did. Even more than telling us exactly what to see in the Scriptures, Jesus taught us how to see, what to emphasize, and also what could be

The First Monday of Great Lent

03/03/2014

Seek to be like God The main aim of all rational creatures, defined by many philosophers as the greatest good, is to become like God. Actually this is not so much a discovery of the philosophers as something derived from Holy Scripture. The book of Genesis illustrates it when it describes the original creation of the human race….that the human race received the dignity of God’s image at the beginning of its creation, whereas the

Thirty-Third Day of Christmas Advent: What Shall We Offer You, O Christ?

12/17/2013

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The Second Monday of Great Lent. The Sunday of Orthodoxy

The Thirty-Eighth Day of Christmas Advent. What Shall We Offer You, O Christ?

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Pascha. Endless Suffering

God Is Humble Enough to Be Anonymous

Voices of Wisdom (III)

The Jesus Hermeneutic

The First Monday of Great Lent

Thirty-Third Day of Christmas Advent: What Shall We Offer You, O Christ?

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