In Genesis 48:8-20 we read: When Israel [Jacob] saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” “They are the sons God has given me he...

By Metropolitan Kallinikos Karousos of Piraeus "Jacob lamented the loss of Joseph; yet the courageous one sat on a chariot, honored as ...

By St. Cyril of Jerusalem ( Catechetical Lecture 17.9-10) This Holy Spirit came down when the Lord was baptized, that the dignity of Him...

By St. Gregory Palamas Today the Lord not only stood with His disciples after His resurrection, but was also parted from them and was take...

I learned lately about the issue created around the sacred personality of His Eminence the Holy Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou concernin...

Abba John asked, ‘Who sold Joseph?’ A brother replied saying, ‘It was his brethren.’ The old man said to him, ‘No, it was his humility whic...

Sts. Martha and Mary of Bethany (Feast Day - June 4) Verses The sisters of Lazarus from Bethany, Believed you were capable of saving h...

By St. Ephraim the Syrian Invocation God of Abraham,* God of Isaac, God of Jacob, * blessed God, who chose the * holy seed of your o...

By John Lee Fortner As Johannes Quasten has noted, “Among the Greek Fathers none has left so extensive a literary legacy as Chrysostom.”...

Verses Your blood and soul apart cry out to God, O first of the dead, and first of the saved. According to Genesis 4:1-12: 'Adam kn...

Introduction Among the many metrical texts in Greek attributed to Saint Ephraim the Syrian are a number of long poems devoted to Old Testa...

By John Sanidopoulos Genesis 19:30-38 describes how Lot's two daughters, shortly after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, got thei...

Righteous Abraham and Lot (Feast Day - October 9) Verses To Abraham. When Abraham died, what abode did he go to? For there is no other...

"Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen...

From the book With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man , which contains teachings of Saint Paisios the Athonite to his spiritual daughters, ...

Righteous Abraham and Lot (Feast Day - October 9) Verses To Abraham. When Abraham died, what abode did he go to? For there is no other...

The same Abba Daniel told of another great old man who dwelt in lower Egypt, who in his simplicity, said that Melchizedek was the son of Go...

By Patrick Henry Reardon The following literary and theological reflections on the Old Testament story of Joseph have no other purpose tha...

By St. Irenaeus of Lyons Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 22) 1. Those, therefore, who allege that [our Lord Jesus] took nothing from...

Homily 66 The Banishment and Repentance of Adam and Every Christian By St. Symeon the New Theologian 1. CONCERNING THE BANISHMENT OF AD...