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Άγιος Ιωάννης Χρυσόστομος: «Η Εκκλησία είναι θεραπευτήριο, όχι δικαστήριο»

“…Η Εκκλησία είναι θεραπευτήριο και όχι δικαστήριο των ψυχών. Δεν καταδικάζει για τα αμαρτήματα, αλλά παρέχει συγχώρηση των αμαρτημάτων.
Τίποτα δεν κάνει τόσο χαρούμενη τη ζωή μας, όσο η ευχαρίστηση που νιώθουμε στην Εκκλησία.

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Four in ten 11-year-olds have seen their parents break up: Modern youngsters four times as likely to see family collapse as those in the 1960s

  • 20% of children born in year 2000 were not living with both parents by 11
  • Ease of divorce and lack of shame felt by couples who separate is blamed
  • Around 92% of those born to married couples were still living with parents
  • But for those cohabiting proportion was only 55%, according to research
  • Study also found 1 in 7 had been through more than one family break-up 

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Basic Points of Difference between the Orthodox Church and Papism (Catholic Church)

By the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos, HIEROTHEOS Vlachos 
Translated from Greek by Fr. Patrick B. O’Grady

The bishops of Old Rome, beside small and non-essential differences, always held communion with the bishops of New Rome (Constantinople) and the bishops of the East until the years 1009-1014, when, for the first time, the Frankish bishops seized the throne of Old Rome. Until the year 1009 the Popes of Rome and the Patriarchs of Constantinople were unified in a common struggle against the Frankish princes and bishops, already even at that time heretics.  Continue reading “Basic Points of Difference between the Orthodox Church and Papism (Catholic Church)” →

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Fasting from Iniquities and Foods (Part 2)

DESIGNATED DAYS FOR FASTING

The period of time before the celebration of Holy Week of the Christian Church was designated as a time of fasting in imitation of the fasting of the Lord Jesus Christ before He began His official mission. This period of time has been designated for the Christian as one of utmost dedication to the principles of Christian life and for repentance, forgiveness and absolution of sins. This period is known as the Great Lent (Tessarakoste, Quadragesimal, forty days). It is the time when the pious Christian humbly prepares himself for the commemoration of Christ’s Resurrection with more zeal in prayers, alms-giving and fastings from sins and foods. During the Great Lent special services and prayers are observed by the individual Christian and the corporate Church.
For the commemoration of the fasting of Jesus Christ, the Christian is directed to abstain from certain foods. Canon 69 of the Apostles determined this period of fasting officially

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