Fr Elpidios Karalis
Rating: 2,7|Votes: 3
"When we say Christmas we actually refer to the Incarnation of God; in other words the mystery of God becoming a human being. We call this a mystery since no human person will ever be able to fully understand how it was possible for Christ our God to take on human flesh; no one will ever understand how it is possible that the eternal God became a little child."
Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 5
"It is my hope that I speak to the faithful who know but one kind of drunkenness, that holy drunkenness described by the Psalmist who exhorts us to taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 33:8). I hope that you have you ears open for blessed is he that speaketh in the ears of them that will hear (Sirach 25:9)."
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As Christmas approaches, we recall how the Romanov imperial family began the tradition of celebrating the holiday in Russia, and what they gave to each other, their servants, and the poor and needy.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
Elder Kuksha, among us on earth only recently, is one of such Russian great Russian saints as St. Seraphim of Sarov and the Elders of Optina and Glinsk, who in recent centuries have illumined the world with the light of love, patience, and compassion.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
So today, after more than two thousand years, once again we experience the truly inconceivable event of the divine incarnation in a world of arrogance, where humanity believes in its own power and wisdom, provoking like another Herod numerous egregious acts throughout the world. As Christians, we feel a renewed sense of our obligation "like new-born babes, longing for the pure spiritual milk, to grow up to salvation" (cf. 1 Peter 2:2), and in complete trust to God's love, wisdom and power, "to submit ourselves and one another and all our life to Christ our God".