Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.   The subject of the narrative in the Gospel of Saint John (5, 1) concerning the complaint of the man who’d been paralyzed for 38 years, is genuinely moving: ‘I ha...

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the waters to be moved’. On...

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We have heard today in the Gospel of a man who for thirty eight years had laid paralysed. The only thing that separated him from healing was the possibility to rea...

George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   The resurrection and entry into the eternal life of the Kingdom of the Triune God are not abstract ideological matters. They are truths ...

Panagiotis Christou   In Slovenia The Moravians and Slovenians were waiting impatiently for the brothers, but they did not appear. Kocel of Slovenia sent a letter requesting Methodios and the Pope sent him in the spring of 869, shortly after the d...