10/10/2018
Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)
Each of us must confront this worldly, satanic spirit that seeks to destroy all Church Tradition and the foundations of the faith. Nowadays we are witnessing a dangerous shift away from the faith.
Our land is becoming devoid of Christ and His true anointed ones; this land, whose soil was sanctified by the unceasing worship of the Lord and His Christ, has become the land of apostasy. Why?
Our worship of God can justify us, but it can also judge us. In the Church, we worship the True God, but our worship can become self-centered.
The seriousness of the priest of Christ is demonstrated by his endeavor to sanctify himself.
Man was created from the beginning to know God. This knowledge isn’t intellectual and theoretical but existential, and the path to this knowledge is faith.
A holy union exists between the saints and Pentecost. For the saints are those upon whom the grace of Pentecost has been poured out, and through whom the grace of Pentecost continues to be active in the world.
Whoever listens to the prayers that we read earlier, asking the Lord to have mercy on us and expel plagues from us, will realize that everything is happening because of our sins.
Judgment Day is not dissociated from the life we now live, for since the days of Christ’s Incarnation, the final stage of the economy of man’s salvation has begun—that of watching for the Heavenly Kingdom.
Rating: 9.1|Votes: 22
Obedience in Orthodoxy is an inseparable part of the life of the faithful who endure in the journey of their salvation, for in the Fall our human nature lost the ability to discern between the righteous and the wicked, between good and evil.
Rating: 9.9|Votes: 19
Every grace that the bishop receives, he receives primarily because he is an Orthodox bishop and because his Orthodox faith is true. He does not receive grace because his works are glorious, his thoughts are good, and his testimonies are great.
Rating: 9.5|Votes: 10
Conciliarity and consultation were the attributes of the early apostolic Church. The apostles led the Church through councils.
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 15
Christians know the mystery of Christ by the power of true faith and not by logical proofs. For this reason, the living Church, which is faithful in keeping the commandments of its Christ, plants in the hearts of its children the ardent love of Christ through love of the true Orthodox faith.
Rating: 9.2|Votes: 14
He who truly fasts, with repentance and tears, awaits the feast, to celebrate it with vigils, prayers and praises. Thus, true Christians are worthy to celebrate their feasts and to enter into the mystery of Christ’s economy of their salvation.
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
Orthodoxy has preserved the faith of the early Church in the same form it received it from the beginning; it neither added to it nor subtracted from it even a letter.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
We currently live in an age of secular globalization and corrupt ecumenical dialogues that destroy all the divine precepts that the Lord Jesus Christ has handed down to us. Globalization and its first-born ecumenism marginalize dogma and neutralize in the mind of the Orthodox faithful this holy belief in the one faith that was handed down to them. It is in this manner that the devil confuses truth with delusion i.e. Christ with Belial.
