On February 7, our church honors the memory of Saint Neomartyr George Divolis from Alikianos, Kydonia, Crete, and from Folegandrio. Two chapels dedicated to Saint George are found in Greece, one in the place where he was born and lived, in...

Returning from the 'foreign land' of the ungodly life... to the 'homeland' of the godly life! It is unspeakably comforting for our 'prodigal' soul to know (when it returns repentant to the 'oasis' of the Divine communion... after its wandering in the 'desert' of the Egoistic...

                On February 11, another Saint was added to the list of saints of our Orthodox Church. A diamond came and was added to the golden chain of martyrs and holy men and women. His form and his action for more than one hundred and fifty years...

The glorious city of Athens is not only famous for its pre-Christian past, but also for its later Christian one. From the first Christian years it raised great saints. In the dark years of Turkish slavery it also raised many New Martyrs. One...

Egypt was the cradle of monasticism in early Christian times. Great ascetic figures brightened Egyptian monasticism. One of them was Saint Isidore the Pelusiotis. A truly great personality of Orthodox monasticism, who combined...

In times of trouble where sin abounds, with Divine Grace, Saints will emerge. Saints, like the newly appeared modern great Elders, and Martyrs, like our Orthodox brothers in Syria recently. Holiness will always exist, until the end of time. The...

"Let us flee from the Pharisee's arrogance, and let us learn humility from the Publican, with sighs, crying out to the Savior: O sinner, have mercy on us alone." (From the Sacred Hymnology of the Triodion) INTERPRETATION: Let us avoid the arrogant behavior of the Pharisee, and let us study the...

"Grant me, Lord, Repentance... and Time for Repentance...!" (Words of divine wisdom, from the "Gerontiko" [ 1 ] of the Orthodox East) INTERPRETATION: Lord, grant me a spirit of Repentance... and sufficient time for Repentance... so that I may prepare myself - with the help of Your Divine...

The Saints were people like us. Many of them were born to pagan parents in the early Christian centuries, and many of them were mutilated by their parents. The Holy men and women chose the path of Christ. The narrow and...

Every year, on January 30, a special memory is celebrated in schools. They honor the Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. But beyond their religious weight, these three people were, above all,...

A noble figure of the early Church was the holy apostle Timothy, the faithful disciple, follower and valuable collaborator of the apostle Paul. We get most of the information about him from the holy book of the Acts of the Apostles. He was born...

Saint John the Baptist belongs to the group of great prophets and confessors of our faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself described him as the greatest man who appeared in the world: "Amen I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist...

Both history and the Church have been sparing in characterizing the "Great". Few received the title "Great". One of them was the leading saint of our Church, Basil the Great, who deservedly received this title, because he stamped his personality...

"God is able to raise up children from these stones..." (Luke 3:8) INTERPRETATION: Almighty God has the creative power to raise up children... even from these stones! (Note: Here, Christ alludes to a 'targetable'...

(Historical approach to the Divine Incarnation) The Incarnation of God the Word constitutes the greatest event in human history, dividing it into the pre-Christ and post-Christ eras and changing the flow of historical events and the course of the world, from...

"And gave Him the name which is above every name..." (Phil. 2:9) Christ -> Christian = a Name "above every (other) name..."! [ 1 ] Our name is... the title of our 'story'. Our life (no matter how much it may seem the same or similar... when compared externally with the...

A category of holy women of our Church is that of the Holy Virgin Martyrs. These are Christian women who had promised lifelong virginity and suffered torture for their faith. One of them was the Holy Virgin Martyr Eugenia. ...

    Venerable fathers, beloved brothers in Christ, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). This is the most joyful and hopeful message of all times. The all-gospel to all the worlds, that “today a Savior has been born for us, who is...

The Church of Rome, in the early Christian years, when it was still Orthodox and had not fallen into heresy (1054) and ceased to be a Church, was the birthplace of great saints. Among them is the Great Martyr Saint Anastasia the Pharmacist. ...

The Incarnation of God the Word is the greatest event in human history. An event that literally changed the course of historical events and divided human history into two, the pre-Christ and post-Christ eras. The Birth of the God-Man...

The Hieromartyrs constitute a special order in the canon of our Church. They are the priests who were subjected to torture and martyred for Christ. One of them is the holy Hieromartyr Eleftherios. He was born in Rome in the 2nd century AD from...

Asia Minor was the cradle of Saints of the ancient Church, but also the birthplace of New Martyrs in more recent times. A multitude of heroic men and women exchanged their lives for martyrdom and death for the love of Christ. One of them was the holy New Martyr...

Our holy Orthodox Church has endless lists of bishops who honored their high mission and became living models for imitation. One of the most representative figures of her ideal bishops is the people-loving Saint Nicholas,...

"The righteous will be remembered forever..." (Psalm 111:6) INTERPRETATION: The righteous man, for his virtuous and humble life, is rewarded by God in return, with eternal, glorious remembrance & glory... Like today, December 5 - at the dawn of Saint Sava's Day - before...

      Among the great saints of our Church, great ascetic and monastic figures hold an important place. Saint Savvas the Sanctified is one of them. He was born in the year 439 in the village of Mutalaski in Cappadocia. His parents were named...

Saint Seraphim the Hieromartyr, Bishop of Phanar, fighter for Christ and patriotic defender of the freedom of enslaved Greeks. He was born in the 16th century, we do not know the exact date, in the village of Bezoula in the prefecture of Karditsa. He was born into a family...

Certain saints of our Church have the title of Great Martyrs, because they suffered particularly cruel tortures for their confession of Christ and their refusal to embrace other false "gods" and to sacrifice to lifeless idols. Among them...

Our Holy Triune God is the only Creative Cause for the creation out of nothing... and the functional perfection of the spiritual (heavenly) World of the incorporeal Forces...! Also, for the uninterrupted creation and providential maintenance of the living (earthly) World of...

When the fullness of time arrived and the Lord called His disciples to Him, the first call was addressed to Andrew. Who is Andrew and was he called First Called by our Holy Church? We will try to answer this with our small forces....

     The female martyrs of our Church are just as heroic as the male martyrs, who together constitute the most distinguished choir of saints. The problem of gender equality was solved for our Church in Her saints, as was the convergence of knowledge and...

(Theological commentary on the feast of the Presentation of the Theotokos) The feast of the Presentation of the Theotokos is an important feast of the Mother of God, which is celebrated with respect and splendor by Orthodox believers all over the world. It was established around the 6th century in...

Saint Catherine, also known as the Great Martyr, was a special figure for Orthodoxy and offered much for her love for Christ. She endured many martyrdoms and her honest blood watered the tree of Faith. The Saint was the daughter of a very beautiful, wealthy...

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... for you, Lord, are with me..." (Psalm 22:4)! INTERPRETATION: Even though I walk through the dark deserts, full of deadly dangers... I will not fear, my Lord, for you are with me...

The four Evangelists enjoy special honor in the Church, because, together with the other authors of the books of the Holy Bible, they were the instruments of the Holy Spirit, for the recording of divine revelation, for the salvation of the world. One of them...

The 15th of November of each Autumn - according to the Tradition of the Orthodox East - marks the beginning of the 40-day Lent of Christmas... but also the 1st Liturgical day, from the beginning of the Christmas 40-day liturgy, which is proposed as a period of spiritual...

      One of the Christian New Martyrs who converted to Islam is the holy New Martyr Constantine of Hydra, who paid with his martyrdom for his decision to abandon Islam and return to the Church. He was born in Hydra in...

"This small world, the great..." (Odysseas Elytis, Axion Esti...) Instead of a prologue. An imaginative... but absolutely realistic 'scenario': a desperate cry of mental despair... of a 'grain of stardust', searching within the universal 'framework' of...

     One of the prominent apostles of the wider group, the Seventy, is the holy apostle Aristobulus. His homeland was Cyprus, he was of Jewish origin, he is referred to as the brother of the holy apostle Barnabas and he was one of the many Jews...

The Martyrs hold the vanguard in the chorus of saints of our Church, because they gave their testimony for Christ and sealed it with their martyrdom. They exchanged their lives for faith in the true God, setting in practice the example of the greatest...

"Know the truth... and the truth will set you free!..." (John 8:32) INTERPRETATION: Only by knowing the truth... will you be freed from the terrible slavery of ignorance...! Humans, although beings with a 'god-related' origin... and a 'god-worthy' spiritual...

"The mind sees and the mind hears... the rest are blind and deaf..." (Epicharmus, Greek poet from Kos: 530-440 BC) INTERPRETATION: The mind is the one that, essentially, sees and hears! And the autonomous bodily senses, without the mind, are blind and deaf... How...

"It is good to exist biologically, but to LIVE... is something else! And, of course, you LIVE... only in Christ!..." (Fotis Kontoglou, +1965) We must admit - and I am the first! - humbly and honestly, that... we 'live' conventionally, frivolously and aimlessly... in...

      A very important event in the young church was the election of seven deacons, as recounted by the evangelist Luke in the book of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 6:1-6). They were elected to offer their services in a very important activity of ancient...

Searching for the immortal and evergreen Beauty... within the decadent and deciduous beauty of this world...! "Beauty will save the world...!" [ 1 ] (Fyodor Dostoevsky: "The Idiot") Taking inspiration from 'harsh realism'...

"When I was a child, I thought like a child, I spoke like a child... But when I became a man, I put away childish things..." (1 Cor. 13:11) INTERPRETATION: When I was a child, I thought and spoke like a child of my age. But when I grew up, I stopped thinking like a child... The...

The Pindar of ecclesiastical poetry, born in Syria, and probably of Jewish origin, emerged as a Saint of our Church. The seemingly untalented chanter became a great hymn writer. We are referring to Saint Romanos the Melodist, whose feast day is celebrated on October 1st every year....

The apostle and evangelist John belongs to those holy persons who formed the close circle of the Lord's disciples. In fact, he is referred to as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 13,23:4,21). He was the son of Zebedee and Salome (Matthew 15,40:XNUMX; Mark XNUMX:XNUMX) and...

...All the birds that flew all day long unfettered within God's Creation... and returned to their nests to roost all night, when they wake up in the morning they will see their wings clipped to the root...! In the last months of 2025... most...

(Theological commentary on the feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy Cross) The great feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross is a day of joy and sorrow for us believers. A day of joy, because through the death on the cross of our Redeemer Christ we have received the...

True wisdom, which is authoritative and unfailing, is godly wisdom. This is the fruit and gift of the Holy Spirit to people who are faithful and humble in heart, that is, the saints. The saints of our Church transcended worldly wisdom and reached the...

Cross: A terrifying symbol of a horrible death sentence until 33 AD, and from the Crucifixion/Resurrection of Christ onwards... Glorious Trophy of Divine Omnipotence and Joyful Symbol of the Defeat of Death! "Cross, the Guardian of the Whole Universe! Cross, the...

The terrible period of persecutions of the first three Christian centuries gave rise to a great multitude of Martyrs, among whom were the Hieromartyrs, that is, the clerical Martyrs. One of the most glorious Hieromartyrs was Saint Babilas. ...

  Nostalgically recalling our childhood... we are, in essence, seeking our lost innocence! "Unless you are born as children... you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!..." (Matt. 18:3) INTERPRETATION: You adults, if you do not become - with the...

Thoughts and Reflections, in front of the hopeless ashes of a huge ecological disaster... which 'denounces' our indifference, sounding the 'alarm bell' for the upcoming... 'revenge' of Nature!... It is not only the rational buildings (people......

Saint John the Baptist belongs to the group of great prophets and confessors of our faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself described him as the greatest man who appeared in the world: "Amen I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist...

"My spirit yearns for You, O God, in the night, for Your commandments are a light upon the earth..." (Isaiah 26:9)! INTERPRETATION: My soul rises at midnight to appear, my God, before You... for the Light that leads my life, from earth to Heaven, is...

"All the glory of the king's daughter from within, surrounded by fringed gold, adorned with... " (Psalm 44:14) INTERPRETATION: All the glorious majesty of the Daughter of the King of the ages, is hidden within Her most pure soul, as it is inwardly invested with...

The greatest feast of the Mother of God is August 15th. The Dormition of the Theotokos is honored. It is the day on which the Most Holy Theotokos closes the cycle of life on earth. She passes from earthly things with their sorrows and difficulties to the ineffable eternal life and joy....

(Approaching the mystery of the Mother of God) The great Mother of God feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is (should be) an opportunity for us believers to reflect on the abyss of mystery that covers the all-revered face of our Virgin Mary, but also the...

Why did Christ choose to be transformed into... LIGHT (substance...) shortly before His voluntary Crucifixion...?! Let's listen to the Manna-Church explaining to us the HOW and the WHY... From the hymnology of the Feast: "On the Mount You were transformed / and as Your disciples entered...

Lipon the Niphon the lower presidency, Christ the presence of the president of all. We are referring to Saint Niphon the patriarch of Constantinople. For this great Saint of the Church, the humble one who was worthy of being elected three times to the throne of Constantinople. His parents...

"Not everything can be said to everyone..." (Philosopher Pythagoras of Samos, 580-490 BC) INTERPRETATION: Not everything can be said to everyone... When/where the all-good God wills and blesses... the unproud Christ-worshippers experience superlative mysteries (the proud, of course, do not...

A serious crisis appears to be developing within the Holy Monastery of Sinai, one of the most historic and respected monastic institutions of Orthodoxy, as 15 monks of the brotherhood have called for the dethronement of Archbishop of Sinai, Faran and Raitho, Mr. Damianos. The...

Many of our saints have the reputation of miracle workers, because they claimed to be gifted by God to perform miracles in His name. Among the choir of miracle-working saints of our Church, a special place is held by Saint Irene, the so-called Chrysovalantou. ...

"As if there were ever an end... to the passions and woes of the world!" (From "The Obituary of the Seal" by Mr. Alexandros Papadiamantis) In the 'theological anthropology' of the Holy Fathers and Mothers of the Orthodox East, 'passions' are defined and understood as all...

"That which eats me, that which saves me... is where I dream like a clown!" [ 1 ] Within the deep dreams of our soul, where all the 'sensible' border, intertwine and intertwine with the 'supersensible' (...), the thick realism of the present...

      In the numerous firmament of holy women of our Church, a bright star stands out, which illuminates throughout the centuries and reveals the value of women, which only Christianity brought to its proper dimension and our holy Church glorified. It is about...

Mount Athos! Every year, after the Spring Equinox... when the blinding Light of the Resurrection of the God-Man spreads everywhere and deeply imbues our Orthodox life (while outside it the gloomy darkness of the rule of death prevails...), our psycho/mental...

The female Martyrs of our Church were not inferior in heroic wisdom to the men. They showed the same heroism as them or even surpassed them many times. That is why they are honored just as brilliantly as they are. One of the great female martyrs is the saint...

A phrase-distillate of our folk wisdom, which expresses in a concise and 'coded' allegory manner, the poetic approach of two concepts: homeland and foreignness! These seemingly opposite concepts, although they start - the first (homeland) as earthly...

The symbolism of the Church of Christ as a floating "Ark", which rescues humanity - like Noah's Ark - from the stormy and deadly waters of a Biblical Flood... is a familiar 'representation' in our Roman culture. The Orthodox Church, as the only...

During the years of Turkish rule, Agrafa became a cradle of freedom and the Christian faith, due to the peculiarities of the terrain. Many saints and New Martyrs emerged in the wider area. One of them was the holy martyr Gerasimos the...

..from an unholy (BC) mountain, with demonic idols scattered on its shores! The Sunday of the "Athonite Fathers" (9th Sunday after Easter or 2nd Sunday after Pentecost) is dedicated by the Manna-Church to the Athonite Holy Fathers. Those, i.e. the...

"There were lights... a thousand lights... but they were not THE LIGHT!..." (G. Veritis: "Night-Soldiers") [ 1 ] All the lights -natural or artificial- of this world (from the sun and the stars in the sky... to the electric and electronic lights of the earth...) are created and...

...a monk 'in repentance' in the "Orchard of the Virgin Mary"! A few years ago, the blessed Elder Moses passed away peacefully in our Mount Athos Monastery. Before becoming a monk, he lived as a hermit for years in our Monastery Arsanas (harbor), being known throughout the...

One of the most dramatic periods in our ecclesiastical history is the 20th century, when many Orthodox Churches were severely tested by Marxist regimes. Thousands of clergy of all ranks as well as millions of believers were persecuted, tortured and...

"My God... my soul thirsts for You, my flesh thirsts for You in a desert and thirsty land, without water..." (Ps. 62:1). Wandering for a lifetime incessantly across the vast desert dunes of the unyielding 'Sahara' of this world, under a relentlessly caustic sun......

The venerable patriarchal throne of Constantinople, in its two-thousand-year history, highlighted a multitude of holy Bishops, who brighten up our Church. One of them was Saint Mitrophanes, Archbishop of Constantinople, a truly great man...

(Theological commentary on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord) The feast of the Ascension of our Lord and God Jesus Christ constitutes a joyful festive station within the truly joyful Easter season of...

 On May 21, our Church celebrates and gloriously commemorates the memory of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen. Both Constantine the Great and his holy mother Helen belong to the great personalities of our Church, because their contribution to the cessation of...

Asceticism is a timeless practice of Orthodox monasticism. Monks chose to live and practice in deserts, where, "face to face" with God, they struggled to be purified, sanctified and deified. One of them was Saint Andrew the...

We find saints of our Church in all peoples and all tribes, because our Savior and Redeemer Christ came into the world to save the entire human race. Even barbarian tribes have raised saints. One of them was Saint Christopher, the...

The cloud of the New Martyrs illuminate, like imaginary stars, the imaginary firmament of our Church. They were, in heroic spirit, equal to the Martyrs of the ancient Church, adhering to the saving Christian faith and to the holy life, which the Gospel proclaims...

Our holy Church has a cloud of Martyrs to show. Myriads of believers were tortured and shed their blood for the faith of Christ, the saving faith of our Church. Many of them are characterized as Great Martyrs, because they were tortured more than the others...

Introductory theological commentary on Holy and Great Week Once again, by the grace of God, we are heading into Holy and Great Week, the holiest festive season of the year. Once again, we will follow in the footsteps of the Bridegroom of our Church, Christ...

After the miraculous resurrection of Lazarus, his pious sisters gave the Lord and His disciples a great and splendid dinner to thank their Great Benefactor. Martha made sure that nothing was missing from the rich table. Sitting with them was...

 If anyone goes to a Coptic church on Palm Sunday morning to watch the ceremony and celebration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, a beautiful surprise awaits them. They will find that all the Copts enter triumphantly into the...

We encounter great saints and Fathers of our Church in every place and in every era. Western Christianity, before it separated from the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ and deviated from the true faith, raised up great saints and Fathers,...

The First Sunday of Lent is dedicated to the great feast of our Orthodoxy. The Church celebrates it with all splendor, with the main feature of the celebration being the procession of the holy icons and the reading of the Synodical of the Seventh Ecumenical Council to all...

The Choir of the New Martyrs also brightens the liturgy of our Church in its own way. Thousands of men and women, old, young, and even young, confessed their faith in Christ and sealed it with their blood and their lives. The...

Theological Commentary on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee By the grace and mercy of the Holy God we have once again reached the holy Triduum, the holiest and most devout festive period of the ecclesiastical year. This long period, which...

A noble figure of the early Church was the holy apostle Timothy, the faithful disciple, follower and valuable collaborator of the apostle Paul. We get most of the information about him from the holy book of the Acts of the Apostles. He was born in...

      At the top of the great ascetics of our Church is Anthony the Great, and for this reason our Church rightly bestowed upon him the title of the Great, because, as we will see later, he was the model of the Orthodox monastic ideal. After all, he is called...

(Theological commentary on the great Feast of the Epiphany) The Holy Epiphany is one of the greatest feasts of Christianity. According to her, the great event of the Baptism of the Lord is celebrated in the Jordanian threads and the wonderful and rare manifestation of...

We have already entered the new year by the grace of the Triune God. Along with our hopes and expectations for the new year, these days fill our souls with reasonable reflection on the meaning of the flow of time. And that's because time together with the "twin brother...

 The most joyous message of all times: "the Word became flesh" (John 1,14:XNUMX), is the beginning of joy and hope for the human race. The incarnation of God is the greatest event of human history, because thanks to it man found and...

     One of the most popular saints of our Church is Saint Spyridon the miracle worker, whose holy relic is in Corfu, incorruptible for seventeen hundred years. He was from Cyprus. He was born in the village of Assia around 270, from...

Our holy Orthodox Church has endless lists of bishops who honored their high mission and became living models for imitation. One of the most representative figures of her ideal bishops is the people-loving Saint Nicholas,...

      Among the great saints of our Church, great ascetic and monastic figures hold an important place. Saint Savvas the Sanctified is one of them. He was born in the year 439 in the village of Mutalaski in Cappadocia. His parents were named...

   People do not all live at the same rate of progress. Some fast, some screeching. Everyone, along the way, tries to interpret the world and man himself, i.e. life, historical events, philosophical, moral,...

(Theological Commentary on the Feast of the Entry of the Virgin Mary) The Feast of the Entry of the Mother of God is an important Mother of God feast, which is celebrated with respect and splendor by Orthodox believers all over the world. It was established around the 6th century in...

       The apostle Philip, one of His most devoted and enthusiastic disciples, also belonged to the blessed group of the twelve disciples of Christ. The testimonies about his person and his work are few and are mentioned in the New Testament. The...

Many saints of our Church received the description of the merciful, because they excessively practiced the Christian virtue of charity. Their sanctification and consummation passed through the exercise of practical love, which is considered the crown of all...

The Divine Creation is distinguished into the immaterial, the invisible and spiritual, and the visible material. In the first category belong the intangible angelic powers. According to the teaching of our Church, these are innumerable spiritual entities created by...

Modern societies are called upon to deal with environmental problems on a daily and practical level. Nowadays, the problem that arises with the development of solutions and plans for the environmental issue at the central level is that it does not...

One of the most convenient methods of Islamization, in the dark years of slavery, used by the Turks, was slander. They slandered a Christian for allegedly converting to Islam and then denounced him as an "apostate", which, if he didn't...

     The Martyrs hold the vanguard in the chorus of saints of our Church, because they gave their testimony for Christ and sealed it with their martyrdom. They exchanged their lives for faith in the true God, setting in practice the example of the greatest...

 One of the most important personalities of the ancient Church was Saint James the Brother, first bishop of the Church of Jerusalem and author of the homonymous Catholic Epistle of the New Testament. He was Jewish by origin and according to...

(Brother of the fighter Nikitaras) Among the many New Martyrs in the dark years of the Turkish rule, there are also many Child Martyrs, that is, minor children, who confessed their faith in Christ and gave their lives for this testimony. The...

         One of the most heroic periods of our ecclesiastical history is the period of iconoclasm (726-842), during which many confessors of the Orthodox Faith appeared. They vigorously defended Orthodoxy, standing tall in the...

The holy author of the book of the Acts of the Apostles, Evangelist Luke, recounting the events of the Apostle Paul's visit to Athens in 51 AD in the seventeenth chapter, refers to the few people who believed in the Apostle's preaching...

The apostle and evangelist John belongs to those holy persons who formed the close circle of the Lord's disciples. In fact, he is referred to as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 13,23:4,21). He was the son of Zebedee and Salome (Matthew 15,40:XNUMX; Mark XNUMX:XNUMX) and...

A category of saints of our Church is that of the military. In fact, this sanctified order produced many Martyrs in the early Christian years. One of them is the holy Great Martyr Efstathios. He lived in the years of Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian...

 The family is a primary value for our Christian faith, which was characterized in ancient times as a "home church". One of these holy families was that of Saint Sophia and her daughters, Faith, Hope and Love. They lived...

The great feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy Cross is another important celebratory station of our Church. The faithful on this day are called to honor and worship the Holy Cross of the Lord in order to draw strength and grace from it. OR...

The woman was recognized, for the first time, in Christianity and emerged as a human person equal to the man. The emergence of a myriad of holy women, who deservedly competed with the male saints in sanctity and merit, is an amazing proof. One of them was...

Our Greece is a land of saints! As a nation blessed by the Lord himself (John 12,23:21,43), "whose fruits" of the Kingdom of God (Matthew XNUMX:XNUMX), it has the blessing to highlight, in its two-thousand-year Christian journey, great saints and confessors of the faith . Not...

The thousands of New Martyrs in the dark years of Turkish rule were also National Martyrs, because for the Greek Orthodox, faith and Homeland are inseparable. They were martyred for the holy faith of Christ and the freedom of the country. One of the most heroic...

(Approaching the mystery of Theotokos) The great Theotokos festival of the Dormition of the Theotokos is (should be) an opportunity for us believers to reflect on the abyss of the mystery, which covers the all-sept face of our Virgin Mary, but also the...

The fifteenth of August is celebrated from end to end, not only in Greece, but also wherever there are Greeks. The monastery of Panagia Sumela (in Pontic: su-Mela, that is, from Mount Mela), is undoubtedly the most famous religious institution in Pontus....

(Dedication to the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary) In the midst of the physical and spiritual laziness of summer, our Church projects, as a cool mental oasis and spiritual upliftment, the great feast of our Virgin Mary. August fifteenth, or like...

Power in general wears and corrupts. Worst of all is the absolutist power and especially the royal power, which in earlier times was a hotbed of corruption and moral degradation. But there are also exceptions. In the thousand-year-old Byzantium, Christian Romania,...

A large number of New Martyrs were young children, boys and girls, who, despite their immature age, united their firm faith in the true Triune God, against the non-religious Ottoman tyrants, who wanted to convert them to Islam and...

     Many of the saints of our Church were in the dark years of the Turkish rule teachers of our Genus. One of them is Saint Eugene of Aetolos, a great spiritual and charismatic personality, who put his own stamp on...

Many of our saints have the reputation of miracle workers, because they claimed to be gifted by God to perform miracles in His name. Among the choir of miracle-working saints of our Church, a special place is held by Saint Irene, the so-called Chrysovalantou. ...

Our Church has to display a "cloud of martyrs", men and women, young and old, noble and silver, rich and poor, free and slaves. They are the Callimachus Martyrs, who were called by the circumstances, to give their testimony about...

It is an undeniable fact that the woman, for the first time in her history, found praise from our Lord Jesus Christ. Besides Our Lady, who was the only vessel of divine grace, a multitude of holy women were near the Lord, throughout...

All ages have been witnesses of our Church. Young, old, men and women adorn her testimonials like precious stones. One of the categories of our Martyrs is the Child Martyrs, which includes the heroic offspring of...

         The continuous emergence of saints in the two-thousand-year history is the permanent miracle in our Church. A great ascetic had said that when saints stop emerging, the end of the world will come. The 20th century brought forth a multitude of...

The Martyrs hold the most important place in our Church, because it is founded on the testimony, the tortures, the blood and the very life of those. The so-called "Testimonies" are the biographies of the Martyrs of our Church, which narrate the...

"YOU LEADERS ALWAYS DISCIPLINE THE NATIONS" (Mt. 28,19) On June 30, our Holy Church celebrates with special splendor the Synod of the Twelve Apostles. Of course there are also their personal memories on various dates of the year, but with this...

 A category of saints of our Church are the Anargyri and the Healers, who spent their lives in the relief of suffering and poor people. Saint Samson the Innkeeper was one of them. He was born in Rome in 511 to wealthy parents.

After the summer solstice and after Pentecost we celebrate the Holy Spirit on June 24. The Feast of the Holy Spirit always falls one day after Pentecost Sunday, a Monday, exactly 50 days after Easter Sunday. When the Apostles...

Theological commentary on the feast of Pentecost The holy feast of Pentecost is a special station in the celebratory cycle of the oneness for our Church. This, along with Easter, are the most ancient holidays, which go back to the apostolic...

Theological commentary on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers The seventh Sunday from Easter is dedicated to the holy and god-bearing Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, which, as is known, was convened in 325, in Nicaea, Bithynia, to deal with...

Dedication to the feast of the Ascension of the Lord The feast of the Ascension of our Lord and God Jesus Christ is a joyful celebratory station in the truly joyful resurrection period of our Church. With feelings of jubilation, the Orthodox...

Theological commentary on Sunday of the Blind The sixth Sunday from Easter is dedicated to one of the greatest miracles of our Lord, the healing of the blind from birth, which the evangelist John saves in his Gospel, with every...

The Ionian Islands are the birthplace of many saints of our Church. One of them was the newly-appeared Saint Panagis Basias from Lixouri in Kefalonia. He lived in the era, when the Ionian Islands were constantly changing conquerors and our Church was suffering under the unbearable pressures of...

The venerable patriarchal throne of Constantinople, in its two-thousand-year history, highlighted a multitude of holy Bishops, who brighten up our Church. One of them was Saint Mitrophanes, Archbishop of Constantinople, a truly great man...

Theological commentary on the Sunday of the Paralytic The fourth Sunday after Easter is dedicated to the great miracle of the healing of the paralytic by our Lord Jesus Christ. An unhappy man lay paralyzed and completely abandoned in a...

Theological commentary on the Sunday of the Myrobearers On the third Sunday after Easter, our Holy Church honors the assembly of the holy Myrobearers, men and women, and together with the assembly of the holy Seven Deacons. The memory of the latter brings to mind the sanctified climate of...

On May 21, our Church brilliantly celebrates and celebrates the memory of the holy co-apostles Constantine and Helen. Both Constantine the Great and his holy mother Helen belong to the great personalities of our Church, because their contribution to the cessation of...

The continental land, like the whole of Greece and the Balkans, produced many New Martyrs in the dark years of the Turkish rule. In the rugged and isolated continental regions, the Orthodox Greeks cultivated and kept the treasure of our true faith in...

The women and indeed the young virgins, Martyrs of our Church demonstrated the same heroism as the men during the early Christian times, where the faith of Christ was persecuted with demonic fury by the ancient pagan decadent world. One of...

        Saints of our Church are found in all peoples and all tribes, because our Savior and Redeemer Christ came into the world to save the entire human race. Even the barbarian tribes raised up saints. One of them was the saint...

Two are the most tragic events in human history. One is the fall of the originals and their expulsion from the Garden of Trypha, and the second and more terrible is the theocide on the part of man, as a horrible result and final descent because of the absolute...

Theological commentary on the content and meanings of Good Friday "On Holy and Great Friday, the holy and saving and horrible Passions of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ are carried out by the wrappings, the raptures, the crucifixions, the...

The sacrifice of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ symbolizes the highest act of love towards his creation, man. Through her the New Testament was inaugurated which marked a new beginning for the course of the human race. The relationship between God and...

Oh, my sweet Virgin Mary, my precious Mother, how deeply they hurt you who now seek redemption, joy, on their knees they fall, they timidly stretch out their hands, to find help... Those who crucified Your only Son, those who They scourged him, whipped him violently, the...

Theological Commentary on M. Wednesday Holy and Great Week is the holiest celebratory period of our Church and is a very rich pumping station of spiritual supply for the faithful. The holy Fathers, with an abundance of wisdom, ordained that we remember these...

Theological commentary on the content and meanings of Holy Tuesday "The holy and great Tuesday of the parable of the ten virgins, from the holy Gospel, we remember". This is the synaxari of the second day of Holy Week. Her Groom...

Introductory theological commentary on Holy and Great Week Once again, by God's grace, we are heading to Holy and Great Week, the holiest festive season of the year. Once again we will follow the footsteps of the Bridegroom of our Church...

Theological commentary on the content and meaning of Palm Sunday After the miraculous resurrection of Lazarus, his pious sisters offered the Lord and His disciples a great and glorious dinner to thank their Great Benefactor. Martha...

Biblical figures occupy an important place in the liturgies of our Church, because their testimony about Christ is of great importance, because they lived in His time and many of them knew Him personally. One of them was Saint Lazarus, the four-day...

Theological Commentary on the Saturday of Lazarus On the Saturday of the 6th Week of Fasting, our Holy Church ordained that we celebrate the miraculous resurrection of Lazarus. This is no accident. Because, first of all, this great and wonderful event coincides in time with...

The period of the Triod, and especially of Great Lent, is for our Holy Church the holiest time of the year. It is the imaginary stage where every believer is called to fight his personal struggle for his psychosomatic purification from the...

How can every devout Christian maintain his faith, when he is daily beaten and tested in such difficult times? Faith in our Triune God is what will support us in all the difficulties we face in our lives. How uncertain...

Asia Minor was one of the cradles of primitive Christianity, where the Church of Christ was founded by the holy Apostles and strengthened by a multitude of great saints. One of them was the holy hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum. ...

Theological commentary on the Sunday of the Adoration of the Cross We have reached, by the grace of God, the 3rd Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of the Adoration of the Cross, during which the Holy Cross is displayed for adoration, in order to draw strength from it, to...

Thessaloniki was a cradle of saints. There are hundreds of Thessalonian saints who adorn the holy synaxaries. One of them is Saint Theonas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki. A truly important personality, who marked the city in the 16th...

     The word "quiet" is derived from the verb "quiet" which means to be in a state of silence, tranquility and self-awareness. The quiet monk, but also a layman, flooded with divine love, tries to eliminate all worldly preoccupations and thoughts, seeks quietness...

      Rev. Metropolitan of Piraeus Mr. Seraphim sent the following Pastoral Encyclical to the pious Clergy and the Christ-loving people of I. Metropolis of Piraeus, on the First Sunday of Lent, of Orthodoxy 2024. From I. Diocese of SEVASMIOTATO...

The New Martyrs, who gave their testimony for Christ in the dark years of the Turkish occupation, came from all walks of life and professions. Rich and poor, artisans, sailors, farmers, artisans, and from all professions emerged as heroes of...

The island of Patmos became sacred due to the presence of two great personalities of our Church, who were associated with it. Saint John the Theologian and Saint Christodoulos. The former wrote the holy book of Revelation in exile there, while the latter built...

Theological Commentary on Tyrini Sunday The fourth Sunday of the Triod, Tyrini Sunday as it is called, is dedicated to the commemoration of the exit of the Protoplasts from the paradise of truphi. In the bitter memory of the most tragic event of...

(theological commentary on Apocreos Sunday) The third Sunday of the Triod is dedicated to the most terrible event in human history, the coming Judgment, as a necessary reflection of the faithful in this competitive season. In memory of the Great...

(Theological commentary on the Sunday of the Prodigal) The holy Fathers designated the second Sunday of the Trinity to be dedicated to the amazing and instructive parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15,13:32-XNUMX). Their purpose was to emphasize to the faithful the bottomless love of...

On the First Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, our holy Church celebrates with all its splendor the restoration of the Holy Icons, which marked the end of a hundred years of terrible controversy in Byzantium (726-842). Protagonist at the end of...

Egypt was the cradle of monasticism in early Christian times. Great ascetic figures brightened Egyptian monasticism. One of them was Saint Isidore the Pelusiotis. A truly great personality of Orthodox monasticism, who combined...

The Cappadocian Fathers put their own stamp on the development of Theology during the 4th century AD in the Church. They are in essence the founders of the orthodox doctrine and the crystallization of the authentic teaching of our Church. One of them was...

The island of Imbros is an ancient Greek island in the Aegean Sea, not far from Limnos and Samothraki. It geographically belongs to the Thracian Sporades together with the island of Tenedos in close proximity next to the Asia Minor beach opposite Troy. Is...

Monasticism is for our Church the unique state that has been uninterrupted for twenty centuries, which has been illuminated, in all ages, by great ascetic figures. One of them is Saint Dionysios of Olympus, one of the greatest representatives of...

At the top of the great ascetics of our Church is Anthony the Great and that is why our Church rightly gave him the title of the Great, because, as we will see below, he was the model of the orthodox monastic ideal. After all, it is also called as the...

Russian Orthodoxy sufficiently enriched the myriad choirs of saints of our Church, with thousands of Martyrs, Confessors, Saints and true believers. One of these saints is Saint Theophanes the Enclosed. He was born in 1815 in the village of Chernavska in...

Theological commentary on the great feast of the Epiphany The Holy Epiphany is one of the greatest feasts of Christianity. According to her, the great event of the Baptism of the Lord is celebrated in the Jordanian threads...

  These days we wait, like every year, for the birth of our Christ. The truth is that the shadow of lights of joy that the divine infant sends us from Bethlehem is heavier since from Bethlehem itself the cries of war and the hissing of...

Both history and the Church have been sparing in characterizing the "Great". Few received the title "Great". One of them was the leading saint of our Church, Basil the Great, who deservedly received this title, because he stamped his personality...

My Christ, isn't it time to raise the flag, to those who discredit the Gospel? Is it not time to drive out of the wars the merchants, who destroy the precious seeds of love? It is not time to destroy the war machines that have flooded the...

(The soteriological significance of the Incarnation of the Word of God)            After our forty-day spiritual preparation, we are heading towards the great despotic holiday of Christmas. We head to the imaginary Bethlehem to meet the infant God for us...

The Apostolic Fathers are a separate category in our Church. They are called Apostolic because they are the immediate successors of the Apostles and therefore derive their authenticity from them. Saint Ignatius the God-bearer is one of them. A...

     One of the most popular saints of our Church is Saint Spyridon the miracle worker, whose holy relic is in Corfu, incorruptible for seventeen hundred years. He was from Cyprus. He was born in the village of Assia around 270, from...

Orthodox monasticism is often connected with the mission of our Church. Ardent monks spread the saving Christian teaching to tribes and peoples, who had not heard the saving word of the Gospel. Such a fiery missionary monk...

The female martyrs of our Church are just as much heroes as the male martyrs, who together constitute the most select choir of saints. The problem of the equality of the two sexes was solved for our Church in Her saints, as was the fusion of knowledge and faith....

The Divine Creation is distinguished into the immaterial, the invisible and spiritual, and the visible material. In the first category belong the intangible angelic powers. According to the teaching of our Church, these are innumerable spiritual entities created by...

Many saints of our Church received the description of the merciful, because they excessively practiced the Christian virtue of charity. Their sanctification and consummation passed through the exercise of practical love, which is considered the crown of all...

*("Saint Nektarios Slandered and Persecuted": Presentation at the Holy Church of the Holy Cross Kastela Piraeus 10-9-2018) The great and lasting miracle in our Church is the continuous appearance of saints. There has never been a time, in the two thousand years of history...

Life of Osia Osia Methodia was born in Kimolos on November 10, 1861. Her parents were Iakovos -merchant- and Maria Sardis, pious people and faithful to God. In fact, after her father's death, Osia's mother also became a nun with the name...

An interesting interview of Metropolitan Morphos becomes an occasion to develop his ideas about the NTP (New Order of Things), and the image of the Greek Orthodox religion within it. As he mentions, Soros and Gates, who represent the...

One of the most important personalities of the ancient Church was Saint James the Brother, first bishop of the Church of Jerusalem and author of the homonymous Catholic Epistle of the New Testament. He was Jewish by origin and according to...

Our orthodox theology is not a theoretical scheme and it does not exist to satisfy our intellect, but it is an experience, a way of life, a sharing of the Divinity and, by grace, a theosis. This is also its significant difference with Western and heretical theology in general, the...

One of the tangible signs of holiness is the gift of miracles to our saints. They, through the uncreated actions of God, deserved to work miracles and thus glorify God's holy name. One of the miraculous saints of our Church...

The city of Athens can boast of the multitude of saints it has raised over the centuries. In particular, he should be proud of the holy Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite, who is counted among the great Fathers and Hierarchs of our Church. ...

Armenia was an important cradle of Christianity during the first Christian centuries. According to tradition, the first to bring the Christian message to the Caucasus countries were the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew. But the persecutions by the...

Our spiritual life must be our pursuit. The holy Fathers of our Church guide us, how to walk, to have priority in our lives. The great ascetic and saint of our Church, Abbas Isaac the Syrian, gives us valuable advice. ...

True wisdom, which is authoritative and unfailing, is godly wisdom. This is the fruit and gift of the Holy Spirit to people who are faithful and humble in heart, that is, the saints. The saints of our Church transcended worldly wisdom and reached the...

Among the choir of saints of our Church there are also many kings, emperors and members of palaces, who were not alienated by power. They included worldly glory in the glory of God and in the ministry of the Church. That's why they were declared saints...

Excerpt from my work that was awarded a prize for special writing by the 1st Nikolaos Delialis literary competition and participates in the collective edition of Philological New Year 2023 of Philological New Year publications, I dedicate it to the fans of light and...

(theological commentary on the Transfiguration of the Lord) The Divine Transfiguration is one of the last and greatest miraculous events of Christ's presence on earth, during which part of His divine glory was revealed to His disciples, "as possible", as...

Many holy hierarchs brightened with their personality and their work the first throne Church of Constantinople in its two thousand year historical course. One of them is Saint Alexander, who put his own stamp on the Church of Christ...

Some of the holy Fathers of our Church received the title of Ecumenical Teacher, because their contribution to Her was decisive for the formulation of Her teaching. Their action went beyond the narrow geographical boundaries and the era, in which they lived and...

The region of Pelion in Magnesia gave a number of great personalities to the Church and our Nation in the dark years of the Turkish rule. That blessed and God-endowed place brought forth bright spiritual figures and saints, who...

DEDICATION TO THE FESTIVAL OF THE ASSUMING OF THE VIRGIN) In the midst of the physical and spiritual laziness of summer, our Church projects, as a cool mental oasis and spiritual upliftment, the great feast of our Virgin Mary. August fifteenth, or like...

The Divine Transfiguration is one of the last and greatest miraculous events of Christ's presence on earth, during which a part of His divine glory was revealed to His disciples, "as it was possible", as mentioned in the euphoric asmatic procession of the feast. The...

        Our Church has to display a "cloud of martyrs", men and women, young and old, noble and silver, rich and poor, free and slaves. They are the Callimachus Martyrs, who were called by the circumstances, to give their testimony about...

Many of our saints have the reputation of miracle workers, because they claimed to be gifted by God to perform miracles in His name. Among the choir of miracle-working saints of our Church, a special position is held by Saint Irene, the so-called Chrysovalantou.

Chios highlighted a multitude of saints of our Church. This beautiful and fragrant island of the Aegean is decorated with many of the imaginable and fragrant flowers of piety. One of them is the glorious Martyr Markella, who preferred death to dishonor....

The Christianization of the Russians is one of the most important events in history. And that's because the numerous peoples of North-Eastern Europe came to know the light of Christ, and definitively left behind the nightmarish paganism and with it the barbaric and uncivilized...

   of LABROS K. SKONZOU Theologian - Professor The female Martyrs of our Church did not lag behind the men in heroic wisdom. They showed the same heroism as them or even surpassed them many times. That is why they are honored as brilliantly as those...