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A terrible word (Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis)

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Despair! A terrible word, a word that denotes catastrophe, and a concatenation of all woes. There’s nothing worse than despair. When people are in despair, they never run and try to find a cure. They leave the passion untreated, they allow it to become infected, to eat away at their hearts and to corrode their soul.

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Saint Mary the Egyptian – Part 1 (Metropolitan Joseph of Proikonissos)

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The fifth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to Saint Mary the Egyptian. This Mary is a unique and eternal example of repentance and of rehabilitation and perfection in Christ. As we enter the final straight towards the Spotless Passion, and the Life-Bearing Resurrection of Our Lord, the need for proper preparation through repentance, so that we can experience in a redemptive manner the Cross and Resurrection, becomes ever more urgent and imperative. This is why, on this Sunday, the Church highlights the figure and example of Saint Mary, in order to provide the help we need. So who was this Mary that the Orthodox Church has found to be of such great importance that we celebrate her memory twice, on the ...

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How the Saints Write (Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis)

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a) These days, there are many theologians, clergymen and lay people who compose and publish texts. Some, however, who aren’t aware of the gravity of what they’re writing, follow the secular practice of competitive journalism. With smugness and pride, they count the number of hits their sites have received, turning theological discourse into commercial news. Not infrequently, they debase the divine word. b) Acrimony, hostility, insinuation, ill will, abuse of those who disagree, unfounded allegations and generalities are used without let or hindrance, and these people often ‘bite and devour one another’ (Gal. 5, 15). And we never fear that, perhaps, as we’re tearing our flesh and expending our theological powers, we may be outside the Patristic tradition which we invoke ...

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