A meditation in eight parts of the Lord’s prayer Part 3 Thy kingdom come για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ In our modern times the notion of kingdom and kingship are not readily understood as most contemporary states have not a king / queen. Therefore, in order to comprehend the meaning of “God’s kingdom” we must look … More Necessity? To find and to worship
για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ The Lord’s Prayer A meditation in eight parts of the Lord’s prayer Part 2 Hallowed be thy name At first glance it seems quite paradoxical to ask God that His name be Holy. Is not the God and Creator of all that exists holy? Is not God, our heavenly Father (see … More A Matter of Attitude
The Lord’s Prayer A meditation in eight parts of the Lord’s Prayer για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ Part 1 Our Father who art in heaven Jesus himself gave this prayer to his Apostles and it is safe to say there is no Christian under the sun who does not know it. We direct our thought and … More Timely Meditations
για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ The first gift of the Holy Spirit, according to the traditional list, is wisdom. It is not merely human wisdom, no, the fruit of knowledge and experience. In the Bible we are told that, at the time of his coronation as king of Israel , God asked Solomon what gift he … More Seeing through God’s eyes
για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ From the very beginning the Church honoured the Mother of the Lord and in her person saw the model of the creature that experiences in her life the fulfilment of God’s promises for salvation. One of the titles the Western tradition confers on her is “Seat of Wisdom”, and the reference … More Seat of Wisdom
The People most honoured για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ No people is as horoured like the Christian People. God came to us and became man and ever since He lives among us. Not only doe He live among us, but he also entrusts us, His People, with the continuation of His work, i.e. the spread of … More A call to all
Who is coming? για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ Last Sunday has probably passed unperceived, however it signals a new starting period for the Church called Advent. Among the Catholics in the Greek speaking world this period of time is named “the time of the Presence”. In the Eastern Church the new liturgical year commences on 1st … More Unfailing Presence
…will flow …from within him who believes in me, as the Scripture has said (John, 7, 38). This is the assurance our Lord gives us, meaning the gift of the Holy Spirit that is diffused to all faithful. Its purpose is two-fold: our personal sanctification, as well as our orientation toward our fellow men and … More STREAMS OF LIVING WATER…
για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ New aspiration Being part of this amazing world, immersed into its beauty and its contradictions, its pain and its hopes, forever trying to move forward, to go further and to push higher we realize that we are not mere pawns on an immense interactive field, in an indifferent world that goes … More Like wind and like fire
για Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ Easter and its significance The Hebrew word for Easter is Pesach (in Latin and Greek Pascha) and means Passover, i.e. passing over. In the Old Testament the feast of the Pesach was the commemoration of the passing of the Israelites through the Red Sea over to the other side, when Moses … More Celebrating Pascha
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