The Life of Saint Cosmas Aitolos
The Memory of the Holy New Hieromartyr and Equal to the Apostles, COSMAS of AITOLIA Saint Cosmas was born in a small...
The Two Wings of Love – Saint Kosmas Aitolos
The most gracious and merciful God, my brethren, has many and various names. He is called light, life, and resurrection. But God's chief name...
September 26 – Feast of Saint John the Theologian
Today is the feast of the Metastasis (Translation) of Saint John the Theologian, the Evangelist and Apostle. The Tradition of the Church states that...
What We Celebrate On The Feast of the Holy Cross
In the liturgical observances of Good Friday the Church views the Crucifixion within its original setting, as an event in the first Holy Week...
Hymns to the Holy Cross
The following are the Aposticha hymns that are chanted for Great Vespers (Ἑσπερινός) for the feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving...
Saint John Maximovitch and the Nativity of the Theotokos
The following is from The Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God by Archbishop (now Saint) John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco, a...
Miracle of the Archangel Michael in Colossae
The following is a passage from Orthodox Saints: Volume Three by Father George Poulos regarding a miracle of the Archangel Michael which is celebrated...
Feast of the Prophet Zacharias, the Father of Saint John the Baptist
The Fifth Day of September The 5th of the month, Memory of the Holy and Glorious Prophet ZACHARIAS, Father of Saint John the Baptist...
Saint Antonios the Great & Humility
"I once saw all of the snares of the devil spread out across the earth," said the Great Antonios, "and I became terrified." "Is...
“What Would You Like to Eat, Brother?”
Once the holy Makarios went to keep an ill hermit company. Casting an eye around the ill man's naked cell, he saw that there...
August 29: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Today, August 29, in the Orthodox Church we commemorate the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. Σήμερα η Εκκλησία γιόρταζει την μνήμη της Αποκεφάλισης...
An Image of a True Human Being is the Panagia
Here the unique image of true man, who through purity and obedience goes beyond the bounds of nature and becomes more honorable than the...
Speak More to God About Your Children
Speak more to God about your children than to your children about God...The soul of the teenager is in a state of an explosion...
The Panagia is the First Monastic
St Gregory Palamas refers to the All-holy Theotokos as the first monastic, dedicated in the temple of God from her third year of life,...
Elder Porphyrios Advises Parents To Ask the Panagia For Help
Don't pressure your children. In your prayers say the things that you want to tell them. Children don't listen through their ears, but only...