Alexandros Christodoulou   Andrew the Apostle was one of Christ’s twelve disciples. He came from Bethsaida, a town located on the western bank of Lake Tiberias. He worked in the family business run by his father, Jonah, which was based on the rich...

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purp...

Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos   Thirteenth Sunday of Luke and Jesus Christ teaches us how we can gain eternal life. The occasion for what today’s Gospel reading teaches us is provided by a Jew who appears to have been a most diligent observer o...

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   In our quiet expectation of the great feast of Christmas, ‘the metropolitan of feasts’, the Gospel readings of this period revolve around the burning question: ‘What shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ Man was f...

Archimandrite Charalambos Vassilopoulos (†)   Saint Stylianos was born in Paphlagonia, Asia Minor, between 400 and 500. He was blessed even from his mother’s womb. As he grew up, by the grace of God he increasingly became a dwelling-place of the H...