The Power of the Name
Friends, with the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord on Tuesday - the 8th day after Christmas - I thought this short piece from ...
“Time Isn’t Holding Up!”
There is a real sense in the hymns of Christmas that, as the Talking Heads say, “time isn’t holding up”; it’s not behaving as we think it...
The Paradox of Christmas
He comes forth, God with what he has assumed, one from two opposites, flesh and spirit, the one deifying and the other deified. O the new...
St Romanos the Melodist: from the Second Kontakion on the Nativity
The first kontakion of St Romanos the Melodist on the Nativity is well known and much loved. His lesser known second kontakion on the...
Saint Porphyrios of Kapsokalivia
Friends, we are blessed this Sunday to celebrate the feast of one of the great modern saints, Fr Porphyrios of Kapsokalavia, who reposed...
