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Saint Haralambos, a Model of Humility (Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios)

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As of today, we enter the period of the Triodio, a time of more intense prayer, during which the Church, through its Scriptural readings and devout hymns strengthens us for our spiritual struggles and for the acquisition of the virtues of humility, obedience, love and true faith. All of these virtues adorned Saint Haralambis, whose memory we celebrate today. Saint Haralambis (or Haralambos) was born in Magnesia, Asia Minor (near Ephesus) in 89 A.D., while the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John was still living there. At that blessed time of the Apostolic Fathers, the successors of the Holy Apostles, Saint Haralambos lived, for 113 years, until 202. He was found worthy of the rank of the priesthood. With the sanctity of ...

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Don’t make Me the guilty one

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I’m the LIGHT and you don’t see Me. I’m the WAY but you don’t follow Me. I’m the TRUTH and you don’t believe Me. I’m LIFE and you don’t seek Me. I’m the TEACHER and you don’t listen to Me. I’m the LORD and you don’t submit to Me. I’m your GOD and you don’t pray to Me. I’m your best FRIEND and you don’t love Me. If you’re forlorn, don’t blame me.

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Complacency and Humility (Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.)

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two characteristic types of people are presented in the Gospel reading, both of them praying in the temple. They were at opposite poles of society as it was then. One was pious and righteous in the eyes of others, a scholar of the Law, a member of the party of the Pharisees who were the leading religious grouping. The other was a representative of the class of sinners, a member of a profession which was a by-word for extortion, brutality and the expropriation of other people’s property. In the mind of the whole of society at that time, a tax-collector was the lowest of sinners. So what do these two people say in their prayer? Let’s look first at the ...

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