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Pentecost (Ioannis Foundoulis †)

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‘We celebrate Pentecost and the visitation of the Spirit, the time appointed for the promise and the fulfillment of hope. How great is this mystery? It is both vast and most venerable. Therefore, we cry to you, Creator of all, Lord, glory to you’. The Church places this wonderful hymn at the threshold of the feast of Pentecost. It is an encapsulation of the ‘vast and most venerable’ mystery we celebrate on that day: the fulfillment of hope, the time appointed for the promise and the descent of the Holy Spirit. Because, indeed, the event we celebrate, the breathing of the Holy Spirit on Christ’s Apostles represents the culmination of the whole task of salvation. All the activity of Christ- His ...

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Message of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew On World Oceans Day 2020 On World Oceans Day 2020, we renew our...

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A Story about Judging Others (Elder Panaretos Filotheitis)

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The late Papa-Nikodimos, a spiritual father from the Skete of Kavsokalyvia told me the following story, which is recorded in Athonite Patristic manuscripts. There was a devout Christian who went to his confessor for fifteen years and told him his human weaknesses. One day he went as usual to make his confession, but when he opened the door he found the man fornicating with a woman. He left immediately and, as he did so, he said to himself: ‘What on earth’s just ?. This is terrible. I’ve been confessing to him for years and now what am I going to do? Will I go to hell? All the sins I’ve confessed to him, given he’s such a sinner, are they forgiven ...

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