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A miracle of St. Nicholas in Kozani (amateur translation from a talk by Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotis of Florina, of blessed memory) «Some say: “‘At that time!’ You make us crazy with this. We constantly hear ‘at that time’, ‘at that time’, ‘at that time’ [a miracle occurred]”. These are not correct, however. It was not…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςWork with a Blessing! “At that time…” Thus begins the Gospel, my beloved brethren. By means of these words we are called to think on that time when he to whom no one can compare – our Lord Jesus Christ – walked upon the face of the earth. “At that time…” Some…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςToday is the feast-day of the angels and especially of the two chief angels, archangels Michael and Gabriel. Angels! Who believes in angels today? People have become materialists unfortunately. And the following anecdote is characteristic. When the Russian astronaut flew high with the spaceship and after returned back to Moscow, he ridiculed the Christian faith….
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςWhat did this man not do for the benefit of the Greek nation! First, the young Christian women serving as wet-nurses to the tyrants’ children in the palaces of the Beys and Paschas were in constant danger of being lured away from the faith through various temptations, or of being lead into debauchery, and…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσης“…So that they too do not come to this place of torture” (Luke 16:28) Does another world exist? Behold, my beloved, the huge question that the sacred gospel sets forth today. I once went to a village, and there they asked me: Who came from the other world? Maybe someone was resurrected, to tell us what’s going…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςMy beloved, you heard the sacred and holy gospel. A small book the Gospel, but it is the most beautiful, most powerful, most superb, incomparable book of the world. Happy, then, is the one who not only reads it, but also tries to enforce it to a “T”; “blessed are those who hear the word…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσης“I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and of everything visible and invisible.” God exists, dear friends, God exists! It is declared in the first article of our Symbol of Faith. Millions of voices proclaim it. Atheism, as we said, has no evidence; it merely dogmatizes. And, as we…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςGrief is coming (Extract from a morning sermon) There are people, who, when they are healthy and their wallets are full, their children are progressing and everything is pleasant, they praise God. But, when sorrow comes, they lose their temper, they grouch and blaspheme and curse the day they were born; there are also others…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςOne day there came to the Metropolis a woman. She appeared to be very scared. I ask her: – What happened and you appear so scared? – Despot, a great evil has found me, she answers me. In the morning when I woke up and went out to sweep the courtyard, I found some things…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςToday, beloved brothers and sisters, we mark a great feast, a great celebration: it is the Exaltation of the Precious Cross. This feast carries us off to Golgotha on the day that the Son of Man and the Son of the Virgin was crucified. Today we will speak of the Cross, then. But who…
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