Great Saints (& new Saints) on July 11 & 12 in the Orthodox Church!...

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Books about St Paisios of Holy Mount (1924-1994) in English, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Persian, Russian, Serbian & Turkish (pdf)

 

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Της αγίας Ευφημίας & της αγίας Όλγας, του γέροντα Σωφρόνιου & του αγίου Παϊσίου, αλλά όχι μόνο!...

 

Great Martyrs & Miracles on the days of July...

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Three girls of July: The Great Martyrs Saints Kyriaki (Feast Day: July 7), Marina (July 17) & Paraskevi (July 26)

Martyr Kyriaki of Nicomedia
 
A Miracle of St Thomas of Mt. Maleon (July 7) in Casablanca, a young woman & a boy from Morocco  

Saint Greatmartyr Procopius of Caesarea, in Palestine

The Church as the Liberated Zone

 

Someone so damaged, so broken, like Agatha, is a saint // How an giant African-American man with tattoos all over his face saw a guide for his life...

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St. Athanasios the Athonite, and Megiste Lavra, Mount Athos (July 5)

 

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St. Athanasios the Athonite, and Megiste Lavra, Mount Athos (July 5) 
 
Photo from the Univercity "Saint Athanasios Athonite" in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Please, see the post The Orthodox Church in Congo & Gabon & the Orthodox University "St. Athanasius Athonite". 
 
Όμορφη βιογραφία του αγίου στα ελληνικά εδώ. Άλλοι άγιοι στις 5 Ιουλίου εδώ.
Η φωτο από το ορθόδοξο πανεπιστήμιο "Άγιος Αθανάσιος ο Αθωνίτης", στη Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία του Κονγκό (εδώ). 

 

An Orthodox Christian eBook from Greece about Love...

The phrase, "I love you" 
 
Saint Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia, Holy Mount Athos, Greece (+1991)
 

The phrase, "I love you", is a humble thing to say. It is not simply said though. It is gained silently with the personality that you fashion. You fashion it, and the other may be mad at you. You are working and look as to ultimately hide it. But the other senses it and is attracted by it. If you love and you don't seek the love of others, all will come close to you. It is a mystery. Mystically you will love and they will understand it, and even while far away, they will send you their good feelings. Do you understand this? ... It is natural what I am telling you: to love selflessly!

Saints Quotes on Love

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

—St Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

—St. Gregory the Great

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

—St. Bede the Venerable

If you have love for the whole world, the whole world is beautiful.
—Mother Gavriella the Missionary, the "Ascetic of Love" (+1992)
This is my last will and testament: raise your prayers for everyone; your prayers will move the mountains. Love each other.
—St. Gabriel the New Confessor of Georgia (+1995)

My worst hell is to realize that I have saddened a beloved person.

—Blessed Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos (+1989)

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

—St. Basil the Great

I no longer fear God, but I love Him. For love casts out fear.
—St Anthony the Great

In this time of fasting and prayer, brethren, let us with all our hearts forgive anything real or imaginary we have against anyone. May we all devote ourselves to love, and let us consider one another as an incentive to love and good works, speaking in defense of one another, having good thoughts and dispositions within us before God and men. In this way our fasting will be laudable and blameless, and our requests to God while we fast will be readily received.
—St. Gregory Palamas, excerpt from Homily Seven: "On Fasting"

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Giannis Antetokounmpo, NBA MVP from Nigeria & Greece, is an Orthodox Christian

"Giannis Antetokounmpo, picked by NBA team Milwaukee Bucks, received by PM Samaras" (2013)

 

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Orthodox Christianity 7/5/2013 

 

Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family with the holy icon of Theotokos "Axion esti". Photo from here.

Prime Minister [of Greece] Antonis Samaras received international basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family at Maximos Mansion, government headquarters, on Tuesday in the presence of Culture Minister Panos Panagiotopoulos and Minister of Sports Yiannis Andrianos. Addressing the young basketball player, selected a few days ago by the Milwaukee Bucks with the No. 15 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, the prime minister thanked him for honoring Greece and underlined that he has become a role model for many, noting that all Greeks have witnessed how much he struggled since he was a child to help his siblings. 

The prime minister wished him success saying characteristically, “I wish you to make America go crazy over your slam dunks”. 

He thanked him for a cap the young basketball player gave him as a present and told him that the Greek people will be watching his career abroad. He thanked him for holding the Greek flag with his brother when the draft results were announced and presented him with the “Axion Esti” icon [our note: About the Icon and Hymn of Theotokos "Axion Estin" ].

Speaking to reporters afterward, Antetokounmpo said that the prime minister was “friendly” and a “basketball fan”. 

“He knew about basketball. He is a very cool guy,” he said, adding that after the prime minister thanked him in a very emotional moment, he wanted to know about the school he attended and where he grew up before wishing him health and a bright future. 

“He will come to America to watch me play,” Antetokounmpo said, and referring to his future in basketball he said that he has set many goals. He displayed the icon the prime minister had given him as a gift and said that his present to him was a cap with his signature. He also said that he had spoken with the prime minister's son, who is “also a basketball fan”. 

 

Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo become godfathers

 

Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo become for the first time godfathers according to the Greek-Orthodox tradition [our note: no "Greek-Orthodox" but simply Orthodox].

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

The two elder Antetokounmpo brothers, Giannis and Thanasis, become godfathers of the young Nikolaos, the son of their close friend and Giannis’ agent Giorgos Panou.

According to the Greek-Orthodox religion, godfather is the person who sponsors a child’s baptism and ”receives in his arms” the newly baptized infant. After the ceremony, the child becomes the godchild. 

It’s an experience that many Greeks have and the two brothers got it today for the first time.

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Memory Eternal, Fr. Peter Gillquist

The Stories of the Saints of North America

An Orthodox parish in Turkana desert

Orthodox Saints and the Future of America
  

Saints Philaret, Metropolitan of New York & Eastern America
 
Why Orthodox Men Love Church

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