Kontakion 1: Invincible Leader, Lord of heaven and earth, we, Your servants, bring grateful praise to You who today descended into hell and raised up all with Yourself, and celebrating our deliverance, we proclaim: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life. Some refrains…

Be a preacher of God’s goodness, for God rules over you, unworthy one, since you owe much to Him, yet His retribution is not visible on you, and for the small deeds you have performed, He rewards you greatly. Do not call God only truthful towards you, because His justice is not recognized in your…

Modernity always poses new challenges and unsolved problems for all people, related to new discoveries. Each new discovery generates thousands of questions—the realm of the unknown expands geometrically in proportion to what is known. Similarly, theologians of all ages have always had numerous problems to resolve for the present day: to convey the Gospel (interpretation,…

Jesus answered them (the Jews – V.A.): Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give…

What does the Church talk about when it talks about faith? What is faith in the language of the Church, and what reality does the Church point to with that word? Who does the Church call a believer, or who is a believer according to the Church’s testimony? In the Epistle to the Hebrews (11:1)…

Our communication and understanding of each other, especially when it comes to God and spiritual life, can be described by the phrase: ‘The deaf heard how the mute narrated what the blind saw how the lame ran swiftly…’. To make this picture of our communication a bit more cheerful from being sadly dismal, and to…