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• Prayers/Services

Supplicatory Canon / Paraclesis to our Sweetest Lord Jesus Christ

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Supplicatory Canon / Paraclesis to our Lord Jesus Christ A poem by Theoctistus, a Monk of Stoudion The Monastery of...

• Saints

St. Ypomoni March 13/26 The Saint who is Named after the Virtue of Patience

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St. Ypomoni the Righteous (Feast Day - March 13/26) St. Ypomoni (Patience), in the world named Helen Dragaš, and later...

• To Ponder

Let’s go from Entreaty to Thanksgiving

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In the midst of a crisis (like this coronavirus crisis we are working through!) is a great time to show...

• Saints

Venerable Benedict of Nursia

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Commemorated on March 14 Saint Benedict, the founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the...

• Feasts

The Lydda Icon of the Mother of God – March 12

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Commemorated on March 12       The Lydda Not-Wrought-by-Hand Icon of the Mother of God (in Lydda on a Pillar): When the...

• Wisdom from the Fathers

Courage through Periods of Darkness

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IT IS NOT JOY OF THE SPIRIT ALONE THAT MANIFESTS OUR LOVE OF GOD; UNFLINCHING COURAGE, STAUNCHLY MAINTAINED THROUGH LONG...

• Wisdom from the Fathers

Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil wishes by every means to attach men to earthly, sensual, transitory things St. John of Kronstadt

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St. John of Kronstadt: . . . Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every...

• Wisdom from the Fathers

To Whom has the World not Lied?

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“Can you place your hope in the world? Whom has it not deceived? To whom has it not lied? It...

• Saints

40 Holy Martyrs of Sebasteia

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Bitter is the Cold, but Sweet is Paradise The Lake of Sebasteia as it is today. The names of the...

• From the Life of our Church
• In Greek
• Services

Polyeleos at St. Paraskevi Church, Gerakas, Greece. Monk Symeon Chanting. Πολυέλεος Ἱεροῦ Ναοῦ Ἁγίας Παρασκευῆς. Ψάλλει ὁ Μοναχὸς Συμεών.

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