Very often, what we say is limp and weak. If we want to transmit what we’re saying and make it lively, it has to be incarnate. When, with what you say, you give your flesh and blood to other people, then, and then alone, will your words say something. Archimandrite Vasileios Gontikakis
Of course, good works are not of value when ‘they fall as crumbs from our table’. You don’t give alms from the surplus you have, but from something which will cost you a little. Alms-giving also means hardship and effort. This is why, when Christ saw the widow’s mite, he said: ‘She has put more than anyone into the treasury’. Others put in what they had to spare, but for her it was as if she put in everything she owned, since that was all she had. It’s a good thing if good works involve effort and sacrifice. Metropolitan Athanasios Limassol
When we observe Christ’s commandments, we don’t offer him anything, because he needs nothing since he himself confers all good things. What we do is to benefit ourselves by bringing upon us eternal life and the enjoyment of ineffable blessings. Saint Theodoros of Edessa
Between us and God there’s a wall. This wall is called ‘Me’. This is what doesn’t let God enter. God’s repelled. Get down on your knees, pray, keep a vigil and then see if God doesn’t listen! Hieromonk Chrysostomos Stavronikitianos
Freedom from the passions is forgiveness of sins. Those who have not been freed of the passions by grace, haven’t yet found forgiveness. Saint Thalassios the Libyan
On Saturday morning, 2/15 January 2022, the Hagiotaphite Archimandrite Eusevios Dagalas slept in the Lord. Our blessed brother was found...
On Thursday, 1/14 January 2022 the Patriarchate celebrated the Despotic feast of the circumcision according to the flesh of our...
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The memory of George, the New Martyr of Ioannina, the patron saint of Greece’s presidential guard, is venerated today. The...
The memory of reposed Metropolitan of Kampala Theodoros was honored today by the Archdiocese of Kampala, in Uganda – on...
A re-dedication of a renovated chapel was held on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Sunday, and specifically at...
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Sunday, speaking after the ordinations of two clergymen, a deacon and a...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, speaking on the Sunday of the Ten Lepers, referred, in his sermon,...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, is set to conduct a pastoral visit to the northeast...
The Church today venerates the memory of St. Anthony the Great, considered the founder of monasticism in the East. On...
The Minister for Immigration, Mr Alex Hawke decided to exercise his discretionary power pursuant to Section 133C(3) of the Migration...
His Grace Bishop Jerotej of Toplica, Vicar Bishop of Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Liturgy in the Cathedral church of...
He is Worthy! AXIOS! With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, Mr Nicholas (Neal) Kakulas was ordained...
Two ordinations of clergy, a Deacon and a Priest, were conducted by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on Sunday,...
Jesus was going towards Jerusalem when, outside a small town, he encountered a group of ten lepers who entreated him loudly: ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us’ (Luke 17, 13). Leprosy was a terrible disease which in ancient times was devastating for those who contracted it and, in the end, proved fatal. If anyone showed the first signs of leprosy, they were seized and sent into exile, away from society, to prevent the spread of the disease. Thank God, we now have medicines to treat this terrible disease, and the relatively few new cases, mostly in the developing world, can be treated effectively. At the time of Christ, however, leprosy was very widespread. It presented an immediate danger to everyone and caused ...
