Orthodox Archbishop of Albania urges calmness and respect for the rule of law 22 Aug 2013 The Christian Orthodox Church of Albania has condemned the violent ousting of clergy and believers from a temple in Premeti, during the celebrations for the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the 16th of August, by private security guards and municipal authorities. Worshippers and …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “Courage! It is I, do not be afraid” (Matthew 14:22-34). The spiritual as well as the material supper with which Christ had fed the multitudes who had followed Him was over. Five thousand men (not counting women and children) …
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Ilias Sourdis asks whether or not a lack of values, family love and a taught respect has created a generation of liars and cheats… (Source: Neos Kosmos – 16 Aug 2012) Many of my generation were born long before electricity had reached our rural areas and started our lives with many beautiful human values such as respect for self and …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “And they did all eat, and were filled and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full” (Matthew 14:14-22). Matthew starts the fourteenth chapter of his Gospel narrative, with one of the saddest historical events …
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– ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS – SERMON I [147] THE memory of the just takes place with rejoicing, said Solomon, the wisest of men; for precious in God’s sight is the death of His Saints, according to the royal David. If, then, the memory of all the just is a subject of rejoicing, who will not offer praise to justice …
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Our Most Holy Lady, the Ever-Virgin Mary is a wonder and mystery which not even the angels can understand: “Heaven was astonished and the ends of the earth amazed, for God appeared bodily to mankind, and your bosom became broader than the heavens. Therefore, Mother of God, the leaders of the orders of angels and of men magnify you”, writes …
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP STYLIANOS Dear Brothers and Sisters, In commencing the Proceedings of our 11th Clergy-Laity Congress, we first of all offer a heartfelt doxology to God who is praised in Trinity, for enabling us all to meet together once again, in order to make a common evaluation and analysis of our Church matters in general. Following …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “But the Pharisee kept on saying, ‘It is by the help of the prince of the demons that He drives them out’” (Matthew 9:27-35). St John Chrysostom says that nothing is worse than ingratitude. And indeed, dear brethren, nothing …
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Author: ED LIVESEY Sydney Morning Herald – July 10, 2013 Georgia Leaker wrote of her experience being one of the nearly one in five under-25s unemployed in Australia. Now, a fellow 24-year-old job hunter responds. The interns and Gen Ys of the world are calling their banners. We have finished university, have experience through internships and applied for copious jobs …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “Jesus said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, my son, your sins are forgiven’”. (Matthew 9:1-8) Our modern era, dearly beloved, has been characterised as the atomic age, the era of splitting the atom. I think we will all agree that, …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.