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We do not go about murdering our enemies, for we convert them, and add them to our own, in prayer. Remember: 12 Apostles had the entire world as enemies and wanted to murder them. See how they gained so many holy believers without ever shedding...

Our Lord Jesus Christ, then, Ascending into Heaven on the fortieth day, did for this reason Commend to us His Body where it would continue to lie, because He Saw that many would honour Him for that He Is Ascended into Heaven: and saw that their...

For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any...

Having threatened to excommunicate Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameus for her public statements about the Coronavirus being spread through the act of Communing of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, His Eminence Ambrosios, the retired Metropolitan...

Christ Himself pointed out the benefit of His Sufferings and Resurrection when He Said to the women: “Fear not: go tell my brethren that they depart into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” (Matthee 28:10) These are the very first words they...

If there are devout and God-loving people here, let them enjoy this beautiful, radiant festival. If there are prudent servants, enter joyously into The Lord's Joy. Whoever may be spent from fasting, enjoy now your reward. Whoever hath toiled from...

Faith in the Resurrection of Christ and in our own co-resurrection does not deny the painful presence of death, pain and the cross in the life of the world. We do not suppress the harsh reality or secure for ourselves, through faith, a psychological...

† B A R T H O L O M E W
BY GOD’S MERCY
ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME
AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH
TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: MAY THE GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY
OF CHRIST RISEN IN GLORY BE WITH YOU ALL
* * *
Dearest brother Hierarchs and beloved...

Whoever you are who approach, and are entering the precincts of the middle of the Temple, stop a little and look upon Me, Who, though Innocent, Suffered for your crime; lay me up in your mind, keep me in your breast. I Am He Who, pitying the bitter...

Brethren, we cannot hold our peace on the Sufferings of Christ; we must speak of them; for both the time and place constrain us to do so. For, since He Died for us, shall we not tell of His Passion? Yea, rather, we will dwell on it, and proclaim it...

And over all these things He Himself, Containing all things, having nothing vacant beyond Himself, has left room for no superior God, such as some people conceive. Since, indeed, He Himself Has Included all things in the Bosom of Perfect Greatness...

I have often observed, Donatus, that many persons hold this opinion, which some philosophers also have maintained, that God is not subject to anger; since the divine nature is either altogether beneficent, and that it is inconsistent with His...

Our fathers did eat manna in the wilderness.

Nothing more senseless, nothing more unreasonable, than these men! While the miracle was yet in their hands, as though none had been done, they spoke after this manner, What sign dost thou show? and...

What need is there, in speaking to you who have searched into every department of knowledge, to mention the poets, or to examine opinions of another kind? Let it suffice to say thus much. If the poets and philosophers did not acknowledge that there...

I may say that those who conceived this causeless hatred for us seemed to be acting very much on the principle of Aesop's fable. For just as he makes his wolf bring some charges against the lamb (feeling ashamed, I suppose, of seeming to destroy,...

Thus tightening his hold upon himself, Antony departed to the tombs, which happened to be at a distance from the village; and having bid one of his acquaintances to bring him bread at intervals of many days, he entered one of the tombs, and the...

MESSAGE FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF SINAI ON THE TERRIBLE PANDEMIC:

Great and international is the temptation visited upon the world by the deadly epidemic of the coronavirus. As Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on the God-trodden Mountain...

The Blood of The Word has been also exhibited as milk. Milk being thus provided in parturition, is supplied to the infant; and the breasts, which till then looked straight towards the husband, now bend down towards the child, being taught to furnish...

But if human wisdom, as it remains to understand, is the glorying in Gnosis, hear the law of Scripture: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man glory in his might; but let him that glorieth glory in The Lord. (Jeremiah...

These are the Great Works of The Lord, well-considered in all His Acts of Will (Ps. 110/111:2)--and so wisely well-considered that when His angelic and human creation sinned (that is, did not do what He Willed, but what it willed) He could still...

And nature stood opposite, and natural intercourse at a distance, beholding with amazement The Lord of nature, in a manner contrary to nature, or rather above nature, doing a miraculous work in the body; and by the very weapons by which the Devil...

For on this account the treasure of the Gnosis Of God is revealed to them who search the Divine Oracles. That treasure of the Inspired Scriptures The Paraclete has unfolded to us this day. And let the tongue of prophecy and the doctrine of apostles...

Clearly, then, did the prophet behold in type Him Who was born of the holy virgin, whom thou, O holy virgin, wouldest have had no strength to bear, hadst thou not beamed forth for that time with all that is glorious and virtuous. And with what words...

Greeks and Barbarians alike testify to the existence of oracles and oracular responses in all parts of the earth, and they say that they were revealed by the foresight of the Creator for the use and profit of men, so that there need be no essential...

The Earthquake came, and it did away with the unevenness of life. Where, now, are those who wear silken robes? Where is the gold? All of those things have gone away, and they were torn asunder more easily than a spider’s web, and they disappeared...