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Saint John the Baptist (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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We shall make a few comments on a passage that Saint Sophrony wrote about Saint John the Baptist. The Lord exalted Saint John the Baptist and bore testimony that he is the greatest among them that are born of women, because he made himself the least (see Matt. 11:11). Although he had all the glory in Israel and many people even considered him to be Christ, he put himself under the shoes of the Lord and witnessed that he was unworthy to unloose the latchets of Christ’s shoes (see Luke 3:15-16, Mark. 1:7 and Acts 13:24-25), and that ‘Christ must increase, but I must decrease’ (cf. John 3:30). We must not forget that we fell from pride and the greatest ...

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Venomous poison (Saint Basil the Great)

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Just as the Lernaean Hydra of the ancients had seven heads, so it is with sin, with its seven deadly forms: pride, avarice, gluttony, injustice, fornication, anger and envy. Each of the seven casts deadly poison into the human soul. The most destructive, though, is the sin of envy. Because the sole aim of those who are envious is to harm their neighbors.

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Online discussion with Elder Ephraim Vatopaidinos and Fr. John Parker, Dean of St Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary

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Watch the online discussion with Elder Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi and Fr. John Parker, Dean of St Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania. The discussion took place on June 30 2020, during the online seminary ‘Living Waters-Transmitting the Apostolic Faith to America Today-The Feast of the Holy Apostles’.

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