Anastasios of Albania: a gift from God, a beacon and a signpost
A Church without mission is a Church with no mission
200 tons of humanitarian aid, ten containers of love and sacrifice
2024, a year full of love
60 years of history, 60 years of humanitarian aid
By Konstantinos Metallidis, member of the Board of Directors. The older ones remember the founder of our Brotherhood Pantelis Bayas and the late couple of benefactors Panagiotis and Elli Papadimitrakopoulou to prepare parcels consisting of humanitarian aid and send them to the initiator of the project and pioneer missionary Fr.Chrysostomos Papasartopoulos and his successors. In…
The Old Testament prophesies the resurrection
In one of our previous articles we left the Lord on the Cross. In this one, we will approach His experiences, not through the words of the New Testament-from the experience of someone who watched Him during the Passion-but through someone who lived hundreds of years ago and yet the grace of God revealed them…
Saint John the Baptist: a model of missionary work
The story of St. John does not begin at his birth – as is the case with ordinary people – but as an integral part of God’s plan, as an essential part in the work of His Divine Economy, it first appears in the Old Testament, among those foretold by the prophet Malachi: “Behold, I…
St. John Chrysostom: All for the glory of Christ
According to the synaxarist of Saint Nicodemus of Mount Athos, John Chrysostom came from Antioch and was the son of pious wives – the Commander-in-Chief Secundus and Saint Anthousa[1]. He was born in 354 AD.[2]. Secundus died shortly after the birth of his son, leaving the young mother a widow, who preferred not to remarry…
Saint Ahmed: Mission to Muslims
Saint Ahmed or Ahmed lived at the end of the 17th century in Constantinople. In religion, as his name reveals, he was a Muslim. St. Nicodemus the Athonite in his new Martyrology informs us that he had a slave companion, Russian in descent and Christian in religion, who after each church service returned home, having…
Saint Nikon: repentance and mission
He preached repentance and through that preaching he did missionary work. A paradox really… how is it possible for such a sermon to have an impact on the souls of people? And yet; it is, and very naturally so, since he was calling souls to return to their natural state, their pre-temporal relationship with their Creator, to their full rest, whether they were Christians or not…
Memory of the Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council: Mission and Patristic Literature
Today, on Sporean Sunday, our Church, in a wonderful pedagogical way, once again “marries” the Holy Bible and Sacred Tradition, these two interconnected pillars of our faith. Through the Gospel we are offered each year the parable of the sower, which is familiar to us all. The sower is God and His own missionary living…
The prophecies of the Crucifixion, missionary paraphernalia
Many throughout the world have been crucified, but none of them are feared by demons. But of Christ, who was crucified for us, only the sign of the Cross when they see it do the demons tremble, because others died for their own sins, while Christ died for the sins of others…
