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– Old man, (They asked Saint Paisios) what causes whining and how you can avoid it;

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– It is due to bad mood, and one overcomes it with praise. Moaning begets moaning and praise begets praise. When one does not grumble about a difficulty that befalls him , but praise God, then the devil breaks out and goes to another who is moaning , to turn everything upside down for him. Why, as much as one moans, it is so rampant. Read more "

The Sunday Gospel according to Mark (β´ 1-12)


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That time, Jesus entered Capernaum, and it was heard that he was at home. And many people came together, so that none of them could fit at the door; and he spoke the word to them. And they come to him, paralytic bearers, floating under four; and not being able to approach him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where it was, and mining spoils the tie, ᾿ ᾧ the paralytic was possessed. ᾿Ιδὼν δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς τὴν πίστιν αὐτῶν λέγει τῷ παραλυτικῷ· τέκνον, ἀφέωνταί σοι αἱ ἁμαρτίαι σου. ῏Ησαν δέ τινες τῶν γραμματέων ἐκεῖ καθήμενοι καὶ διαλογιζόμενοι ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν… more »

Saints and Church: Ἡ ὁλόφωτος νεφέλη.

Ἡ ὁλόφωτος νεφέλη.

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[image: AgiaSkepi10]"Rejoice, world's broadest cloud" The holy hymn writer of Akathistos Ὕmnos stands with admiration and awe in front of the face of the Most Holy Theotokos. Μέ καρδιά πλημμυρισμένη ἀπό εὐγνωμοσύνη πρός τήν Ὑπέραγνο Κόρη τῆς Ναζαρέτ ἐπιχειρεῖ νά παρουσιάσει τίς ἀρετές της μέσα ἀπό τούς στίχους τῶν γκυκύφθογγων ὕμνων του κατά τόν καλύτερο τρόπο. Read more "

Δεν έχει το δικαίωμα.

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[image: akathistos4]Χαίρε τύραννον απάνθρωπον εκβαλούσα της αρχής, χαίρε Κύριον φιλάνθρωπον επιδείξασα Χριστόν. *Πρωτ. Θεμιστοκλή Μουρτζανού* Οι άνθρωποι αισθανόμαστε ότι έχουμε κάποιους οι οποίοι λειτουργούν απέναντί μας τυραννικά. Είναι όλοι όσοι καταπιέζουν τα συναισθήματά μας, they do not work based on our own needs, but only based on their authority, as also those who claim to love us, but in practice they seem to love ourselves. Read more "

FREE SCHOOL LESSONS FOR STUDENTS AND ENGLISH FOR ADULTS AT THE CHURCH OF PANAGIAS IN OLD NAPOLI.

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*FREE* *SCHOOL LESSONS FOR STUDENTS* * AND* * ENGLISH FOR ADULTS* *In the Church of Our Lady of Old Nafplio.* Read more »

Saints and Church: 7in March

On the 7th of March, Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos "of the Immaculate Guarantee" in Russia.

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The holy icon of the Virgin Mary "The Guaranty of Sinners" used to be located in the monastery of Ordisk in the province of Orlof, where she became famous for the miracles she performed. Ἕνα ἀντίγραφο αὐτῆς τῆς ἱερᾶς εἰκόνος φυλασσόταν στὸ ναὸ τοῦ Ἁγίου Νικολάου Χαμώνβικ τῆς Μόσχας. Ἡ εἰκόνα κάθε βράδυ ἀκτινοβολοῦσε ἀπὸ θεϊκὸ φῶς. The inscription that was engraved on the image is characteristic: "*I am the guarantee of sinners to the Son"*. The Icon of the Virgin is celebrating, also, at 29 May.

On the 7th of March, Saints Agathodoros, Ethereal, King, Hope, Eugene, Ephraim and Kapiton, the Holy Martyrs.

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On the reign of the emperor Diocletian (284 – 305 A.D.) The Patriarch of Jerusalem Hermon (300 – 314 A.D.) sent Bishop Saint Ephraim to Scythia and Bishop Saint Vasilea to Chersona, with the aim of spreading Christianity. The Holy King because he preached Christ, expelled by the idolaters. Read more "

On the 7th of March, Saint Paul the Holy.

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Saint Paul lived in the 4th century AD. And Haplos was called, because he was an illiterate farmer but at the same time humble and simple in morals. His wife was beautiful in form, but bad-tempered in the soul. She committed adultery with others, he was arrested one day by Osios, when he was returning from the fields. So the Holy One left his wife and children in the care of the adulterer and fled to the Egyptian desert, in the cell of Antony the Great, asking to become a monk. Read more "

On the 7th of March, Saint Lawrence of Megaron.

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Saint Lawrence, by world Lampros Kanellos, he was born in Megara of pious and God-loving parents, Dimitrios and Sunday. Τὸ ἐπάγγελμά του ἦταν γεωργὸς καὶ οἰκοδόμος. Νυμφεύθηκε τὴν Βασιλικὴ καὶ ἀπὸ τὸν γάμο του ἀπέκτησε δύο υἱούς, τὸν Ἰωάννη καὶ τὸν Δημήτριο. Κάποιος βράδυ, στὸ χωριὸ Μάντρον, he had a vision of the Mother of God, which suggested him to go to Salamis, where he found her holy icon and to restore her ruined temple. Read more "

Saints and Church: 6in March

On the 6th of March 2015, B’ Stance of Salutations of the Virgin.

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*The shepherds heard, of the Angels praising, the incarnate presence of Christ, and acting like a shepherd, considering him as an unblemished lamb, grazed in the womb of Mary, When they praised, I said: Rejoice, Lamb and Shepherd Mother, hi, yard of logical sheep. Read more "

On the 6th of March, Memorial of the Finding of the Holy Cross with the Holy Men under Saint Helen.

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Saint Helen (247 – 328 A.D.), mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine I the Great (280/288 – 337 A.D.), the year 326 A.D. went to Jerusalem, where *"with great effort and much expense and intimidation they saw the holy cross and the other two crosses of the robbers"*, as the Cypriot Chronographer Leontios Mahairas writes. Read more "

On the 6th of March, Saints Aetios, Vassoi, Theodore, Theophilus, Best, Constantine and others 36 Witnesses.

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The 42 Holy Martyrs lived during the reign of Theophilos the economachus (829 – 842 A.D.) and they were generals and brigade commanders, rich and noble. Saint Theophilos was a general and a patrician, ὀ Saint Aetius general, Agios Vassoi runs, Saint Theodore the Pioneer, Saint Callistos Turmarchis and Saint Constantine Drungarios. Read more "

Saints and Church: 5in March

On the 5th of March, Saint Conon the Isauro.

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Saint Conon was born around the end of the 1st century AD. in Vadini, village of Isauria in Asia Minor and lived in the Apostolic times. His parents, Nestor and Nada were originally pagans. At a young age he became a Christian and when his parents pressured him to marry, agreed with his wife to live as brothers dedicated to God. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Saint Conon the Gardener.

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The Holy Martyr Conon came from Nazareth of Galilee and lived during the reign of Decius (249 – 251 A.D.). After he came to the country of Pamphylia and chose a small place, he converted it into a garden by planting cabbages, from which he supplied himself and the poor foreigners with food. He was simple in character, so that even those who were going to arrest him and lead him to the lord, to be punished because he was a Christian, when they grabbed him in a playful way, and he gave them back the aspasmos. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Saint Conon from Cyprus.

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Saint Conon lived around the 4th century AD. He was born in the Akama region of Cyprus, a few years after the death of Saint Hilarion the Great († 21 of October), from pious and God-loving parents. From childhood he loved temperance, τὴν ἄσκηση καὶ τὴν ἀρετή. Ἔτσι ἀποφάσισε νὰ ἐγκαταλείψει τὸν κόσμο καὶ νὰ ἐγκατασταθεῖ σὲ ἕνα σπήλαιο μακριὰ ἀπὸ τὸ χωριό του. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Ὅσιος Μᾶρκος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος.

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Saint Mark was an Athenian and lived in the 4th century AD. After he received a valuable education, he left Athens and went to Antioch, ὅπου μαθήτευσε κοντὰ στὸν Ἅγιο Ἰωάννη τὸν Χρυσόστομο. Ἀργότερα ἐκάρη μοναχὸς καὶ ἀφιέρωσε τὸν ἑαυτό του στὴν μελέτη τῶν Θείων Γραφῶν καὶ ἔφθασε στὸν ὕψιστο βαθμὸ τῆς ἀρετῆς. Read more "

On the 5th of March, Collection of the Holy Relics of Saint Theodore the Prince and his sons David and Constantine.

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Their memory is honored in 19 September. Δὲν ἔχουμε λεπτομέρειες γιὰ τὸ γεγονὸς τῆς ἀνακομιδῆς τῶν Ἱερῶν Λειψάνων τους.

Saints and Church: 4in March

Την 4ην του μηνός Μαρτίου, Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ὁ Ἰορδανίτης.

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Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ὁ Ἰορδανίτης γεννήθηκε στὴ Λυκία τὸν 5ο αἰῶνα μ.Χ., ἀπὸ εὐσεβεῖς καὶ ταπεινοὺς γονεῖς καὶ ἐκ βρέφους ἀφιερώθηκε στὸν Θεό. Σὲ νεαρὴ ἡλικία ἀσπάσθηκε τὴν αἵρεση τῶν Μονοφυσιτῶν παρασυρόμενος ἀπὸ τοὺς ὀπαδοὺς τοῦ αἱρετικοῦ ψευδοπατριάρχου Θεοδοσίου, φανατικοῦ μονοφυσίτου Αἰγυπτίου μοναχοῦ, ὁ ὁποῖος κατὰ τὴν ἀπουσία τοῦ Πατριάρχου Ἰουβεναλίου (422 – 453 A.D.), βοηθούμενος καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς βασιλίσσης Εὐδοκίας, κατόρθωσε νὰ καταλάβει τὸν πατριαρχικὸ θρόνο τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ νὰ προβεῖ σὲ ἀνεκδιήγητες σκληρότητες ἐπὶ εἴκοσι μῆνες (451 – 453 A.D.). Read more "

Την 4ην του μηνός Μαρτίου, Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ἐκ Ρωσίας.

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Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος τῆς Βολογκντὰ γεννήθηκε στὴν Ρωσία τὸν 12ο αἰῶνα μ.Χ. Στὴν ἀρχὴ ἀσκήτεψε στὴ μονὴ τοῦ Γκλουσὲν καὶ ἀργότερα στὴ μονὴ τοῦ Γκλινέκ, κοντὰ στὸ Κίεβο. Στὶς 19 Αὐγούστου 1147 ἦλθε στὴν περιοχὴ τῆς Βολογκντά, ὅπου συνέχισε τὸ θεοφιλὴ καὶ ἀσκητικό του βίο. Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος, κοιμήθηκε μὲ εἰρήνη τὸ ἔτος 1178.

Την 4ην του μηνός Μαρτίου, Ἅγιος Δανιὴλ ὁ Πρίγκιπας.

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Ὁ Ἅγιος Δανιὴλ γεννήθηκε στὴν πόλη τοῦ Βλαντιμὶρ τῆς Ρωσίας τὸ ἔτος 1261. Ἦταν ὁ τέταρτος υἱὸς τοῦ Ἁγίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Νέφσκυ († 30 Αὐγούστου καὶ 23 November) καὶ τῆς Βάσσης. Δύο χρόνια μετὰ τὴν γέννησή του ὁ πατέρας του πέθανε. Ὅταν ἀργότερα κοιμήθηκε ἡ μητέρα του Βάσσα, ἀνταφιάσθηκε στὸ ναὸ τῆς Γεννήσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ τῆς μονῆς τοῦ Γενεθλίου τῆς Θεοτόκου Βλαντιμὶρ καὶ οἱ πιστοὶ τὴν ἀποκαλοῦσαν «δίκαιη». Read more "

Την 4ην του μηνός Μαρτίου, Μετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Βιασεσλάβου Πρίγκιπα τῆς Ρωσίας.

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Ὁ Ἅγιος Βιασεσλάβος τιμᾶται στὶς 28 September. Τὰ ἱερὰ λείψανα τοῦ Ἁγίου Βιασεσλάβου, πρίγκιπα τῆς Τσεχίας, μετακομίσθηκαν ἀπὸ τὸν ναὸ τοῦ Ἁγίου Βίτου († 15 Ἰουνίου) στὸν τόπο τοῦ μαρτυρίου αὐτοῦ.