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Pastoral Thoughts

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CHRIST IS RISEN!

Steadfast Patience

Anger towards God in times of grief

The Hope that comes from the Manger and brings Light to the New Year

What is a human being?

Sunday of Synaxis of the Holy Doctors

Cross-generational Communication - Bridging the Gap

The “why” and the future

Where there is no love, there is no life!

Our Goal in Life - The Resurrection

World Day of Health and the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross: Two important celebrations with a significant meaning

A culture of “anti-thinking”

Mentoring caregivers of the elderly

Ministry and care without requiring recognition from others

The abrogation of a sense of society

May 11, 2022 - 17th Consultation European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy

PASCHA 2022 - The ray of light that passes through the darkness

April 7, 2022 - “Our planet, our health”

War and the Small Nations

January 23, 2022 - Disunity and Friendship

January 10, 2022 - So what is time?

CHRISTMAS 2021 - We all hoped but did not believe

November 26, 2021 - Facing the genuineness of our faith and love and our ability to care for others

October 29, 2021 - PAIN

October 21, 2021 - Feast of the Holy Physicians at the Fanar

October 17, 2021 - Synaxis of the Holy Doctors

September 9, 2021 - A Mindful Practice of Ecosystem Stewardship

August 21, 2021 - After three months A personal thought

May 28, 2021 - The unexpected pandemic and the unexpected event of the Resurrection

February 22, 2014 - “What is hell?”

February 16, 2014 - The meaning of freedom and the existential impasse of our times

January 26, 2014 - The prudent man and the therapeutic acts of God’s judgment

January 19, 2014 - We should not think that Christ will not heal us

January 12, 2014 - The condescension of Christ and our calling

NEW YEARS 2014 - Time, The envious and spiteful old man

December 8, 2013 - Stillness, Freedom and Counter-Reaction in Confession

November 23, 2013 - The good that we do for our fellowman

November 17, 2013 - Time, Death and our Personhood

November 10, 2013 - Why is man so passionately fond of destruction and chaos?

November 3, 2013 - “Between you and us a great chasm has been fixed”

November 1, 2013 - Holy and Wondrous Miracle Workers Kosmas and Damian

October 27, 2013 - Faith, Martyrdom and Infidelities

October 6, 2013 - Facing Death and Christ

September 22, 2013 - Why is there so much loneliness amongst us?

September 15, 2013 - What does it mean to be crucified for your brother and to hold his burden?

September 8, 2013 - The Direction that Genetics is Taking Today

2013, Day of Pray for the Environment - Man and Nature

August 25, 2013 - Involuntary humility

August 18, 2013 - Post-Feast Day Choices

August 11, 2013 - The First Fifteen Days of August, Our Loneliness and the All-Holy Virgin

August 4, 2013 - The Sacrament as a Therapeutic Medicine of the Community

July 28, 2013 - The feeling of failure and psychological-spiritual exhaustion

July 21, 2013 - Fear of God is of two kinds - St. Maximos the Confessor

July 14, 2013 - The exaggeration of our difficulties and the need for humility - St. John Chrysostom

July 7, 2013 - Our mission and our personal difficulties

June 30, 2013 - What is our mission in complex and divided world?

June 23, 2013 - The Holy Spirit and the gifts that are granted to us - St. Nicholas Kavasilas

June 16, 2013 - The Ascension, Peace and human tumultuousness - St. Gregory of Palamas

June 9, 2013 - Health is not always good for the soul - St. Maximos the Confessor

May 19, 2013 - "There is nothing worse than a person who does not know how to love." - St. John Chrysostom

May 12, 2013, Sunday of St. Thomas - “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.” - Pray of St. Isaac the Syrian

April 28, 2013 - The Lord was going toward His voluntary Passion - St. Theophanis the Recluse

April 21, 2013 - “Are you able to drink the cup that I drink?”

April 14, 2013 - Pain as it is related to death - Archim. Joel Giannakopoulos

April 7, 2013 - The Power of Love is Hope - St. John the Climax

March 17, 2013 - “A sign of compassion is forgiveness of every debt” - St. Isaac the Syrian

March 10, 2013 - “The things that I say to others and counsel, I do not do” – St. Romanos Melodos

March 3, 2013 - The struggle that is needed in order to crush death - Macarius of Egypt

When the Church speaks and when it remains silent - Ecum. Patriarch Bartholomew

February 17, 2013 - “Oh how much I enjoy talking with others” - Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras

February 10, 2013 - The Definition of Pain and Suffering

February 3, 2013 - The Greatness of Man - Archim. Sophronios

January 27, 2013 - When a child is ill and needed the adjustments of the family - Danai Papadatou

January 20, 2013 - An honest and true friend – St. Maximos the Confessor

January 13, 2013 - What we call “philanthropic work”

January 6, 2013 - With full knowledge we sing to Thee – St. Maximos the Confessor

December 25, 2012 - CHRISTMAS 2012

December 16, 2012 - Rob and Cindy, their pain and misfortune and Christmas

December 9, 2012 - “Let us visit Christ” - St. Gregory the Theologian

December 2, 2012 - The real danger of hospitalization - A. Papathanasiou

November 25, 2012 - What is Psychological Death - Dimitrios Kiriazis

November 18, 2012 - The misfortune of pain and the joy of life

November 11, 2012 - Only if you choose to – St. John Chrysostom

November 4, 2012 - Our Guardian Angel, St. Anthony the Great

October 28, 2012 - The disposition toward offering love

October 21, 2012 - If we want to understand death

October 14, 2012 - Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Mt 6:10).

October 7, 2012 - “Remember us all Lord our God”

September 30, 2012 - The ecclesiastical community does not just “stand - by"

September 23, 2012 - The Cross as the Gift of God

September 16, 2012 - Without the Cross

December 14, 2014 - Before we pastor others we must first pastor ourselves in a proper way

CHRISTMAS 2014 - Our difficulties will pass

NEW YEAR 2015 - God gives us time

January 11, 2015 - The uncovering of our self

January 18 2015 - In the final analysis, who is mad?

January 24, 2015 - Do not compare yourself with the weakest of people

February 1, 2015 - Humility and self-esteem

February 8, 2015 - The freedom that is found in the love of the Father

February 15, 2015 - Love and the Flames of Hell

April 1, 2015 - Lazarus is sick

May 10, 2015 - The hell of frenetic passivity

June 7, 2015 - The Pastoral Relationship and Man’s Sacredness

June 13, 2015 - The meter of asceticism is philanthropy

June 28, 2015 - A life without detour

July 5, 2015 - Before the void

July 12, 2015 - Τhe cry of those that are weary and burdened

July 26, 2015 - When we feed on love

August 2, 2015 - You and the Sick

August 30, 2015 - Difficulties and Will

September 8, 2015 - What is clean and what isn’t

October 4, 2015 - When love is not an act

November 1, 2015 - Medical Science

September 1, 2018 - Day of the protection of the environment

March 22, 2015 - Anger

March 17, 2017 - The Tears of Consolation

March 31, 2013 - The Shadow of Death - St. Maximos the Confessor

November 30, 2013 - The crucifying endurance of the first called, the denial of the cross and the sufferings of man and the church

October 20, 2013 - Let everyone be important in your eyes

The anxiety about death and the meaning of immortality

March 15, 2015 - Our only health is the disease

May 18, 2014 - One of the greatest ailments of our times – the difficulty to commit one’s self to a relationship

March 2, 2014 - Sunday of Forgiveness

March 9, 2014 - The collapse of cultures, the hopelessness of the people and the lack of faith

March 16, 2014 - The repenter has need of help

March 23, 2014 - The hope that is found in difficulties

March 31, 2014 - The meter for spiritual guidance and the spiritual age of each person

April 6, 2014 - The eros that unites

Pascha 2014 - Christ is Risen!

Holy Week 2014 - The Wounds that healed us

April 27, 2014 - “Blessed are those that do not see and yet believe”

May 11, 2014 - “Lord, I have no one” – the most profound experience of illness

May 25, 2014 - Those that see and those that do not see

June 1, 2014 - The medical care of the body and the internal man

Pentecost - All Saints Sunday - The Holy Spirit and the relics of the Saints

June 22, 2014 - Το the sick brother who said “I am a burden to him”

June 29, 2014 - Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

July 6, 2014 - Maximus the Confessor

July 13, 2014 - The beginning and end of Christian leadership

July 27, 2014 - St. Ioustinos Popovits

August 3, 2014 - Love is forbearing

September 14, 2014 - No one can escape the cross

November 9, 2015 - The Bishop as Pastor and his Flock

November 29, 2015 - Man - the center of tragedy

December 6, 2015 - The realist and miracles

December 15, 2015 - The sheep, the cattle and the spiritual manger of the Church

January 6, 2016 - “To all things there is a time, and a season for every matter”

January 24, 2016 - How should a Christian approach his fellow man?

January 31, 2016 - The opposite of peace

February 7, 2016 - Let us not beg for love

February 28, 2016 - Do we live in a faraway land?

March 6, 2016 - Can a Man judge his Fellow Creatures? Faith to the End.

April 3, 2016 - Αre we willing to suffer with Christ?

April 10, 2016 - The Joy and Grief of Forgiveness

After Rhodes 2017

May 8, 2016 - When you believe in the Resurrected Christ

May 22, 2016 - Enduring emptiness and loneliness

June 2, 2016 - Spirituality and Health

June 13, 2016 - "THE HOLY AND GREAT SYNOD" The malfuction caused by foolish zeal under the pretext of divine inspiration

June 26, 2016 - Catholicity and Health

July 12, 2016 - What is the traditional way to pastor?

July 20, 2016 - When you prefer temporary things over love

August 23, 2016 - Hope, support and salvation of the sick

October 18, 2016 - Do not allow your self to slumber!

October 31, 2016 - The difficulty to find the necessary faith

November 14, 2016 - When the sense of God’s presence and the sense of Man is absent

November 27, 2016 - How should we care for people?

December 11, 2016 - The Star of the East and our darkness

December 30, 2016 - Coming to know God in the joys and difficulties of life

January 29, 2017 - Prayer for health: a demand or a supplication?

February 12, 2017 - Isolation of the sick

February 19, 2017 - The Two Tears

March 6, 2017 - Healing through repentance and forgiving

April 21, 2017 - The power of the Cross and the Resurrection and the therapist’s efforts to heal

March 30, 2017 - God’s grace and the anxiety of bearing a child

May 21, 2017 - As much as you can

May 27, 2017 - The Problem of Pain

August 15, 2017 - O Lady, Mighty storms of misfortunes pass over me

June 20, 2017 - Life’s situations and our self

July 10, 2017 - Those that Suffer

July 17, 2017 - About Hope

July 23, 2017 - If we want to go up on the cross

August 5, 2017 - Taking Away Hope

November 5, 2017 - The Miracle of the Holy Unmercenaries Sts. Kosmas and Damian

November 25, 2017 - Coordinator of the Patriarchal Network Meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Facing Disasters

December 22, 2017 - The Child, the Pediatrician Life and Death

The launching of The Society of Medical Professionals and Health Care Providers “St. Luke the Evangelist and Physician” of the Holy Metropolis of San Francisco

March 10, 2018 - The Cross and Pain

March 18, 2018 - Before the unjust death of a child

March 27, 2018 - Terrorism and the fear of absolute chaos

HOLY WEEK 2018 - The Wounded Bridegroom seeks the Wounded Bride

PASCHA 2018 - CHRIST IS RISEN

April 22, 2018 - The first resurrection - faith

May 9, 2018 - Our change after the Resurrection

June 8, 2018 - The healing apostolic mission of the Church

October 28, 2018 - The mystery of life

December 9, 2018 - I want one thing - to be with You

CHRISTMAS 2018 - Prophecies, pseudo-realities and the new creation

Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Patriarchal Network

March 13, 2019 - The medicine of immortality

March 31, 2019 - Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross - The way of hope

April 7, 2019 - The sick person’s faith that heals

April 19, 2019 - Wait for the LORD!

May 5, 2019 - “Enter all, therefore, into the joy of our Lord”

May 30, 2019 - The demons of loneliness

June 23, 2019 - The Tollbooth Phenomenon

July 23, 2019 - The “Royal priesthood” of the Church and the “dignified stature” of our People

August 11, 2019 - The New Archbishops and the Patriarchal Network New Challenges - New Prospects

August 17, 2019 - Kyriakodromion

August 29, 2019 - Fasting and Prayer that either heals or brings on death

September 14, 2019 - The Cross and our sufferings

September 29, 2019 - The gate of compassion

October 20, 2019 - The joys and agonies of a new mother

October 27, 2019 - “In your patience, acquire your soul”

Vasilios Kambourakis, a treasured servant of the “Patriarchal Network” has reposed

December 15, 2019 - “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many”

New Year's Day 2020 - Time - The King of Eternity

January 19, 2020 - Seeking the Lord

February 2, 2020 - Feast of the Presentation of our Lord - Patient Trust

February 16, 2020 - Sunday of the Prodigal Son, The humble cry to our Heavenly Father

O all-holy Theotokos

March 19, 2020 - O Lord

March 20, 2020 - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

March 22, 2020 - Rejoice, the faithful guide

March 25, 2020 - Wisdom and understanding – the foundations of prudence

Prayer during pandemic illness

March 28, 2020 - Knowing God in a time of sorrows

April 3, 2020 - The Akathist Hymn

April 5, 2020 - Wrestling with our faith

April 8, 2020 - Proclaiming the Resurrection by way of the Cross

Saturday of Lazarus - Palm Sunday 2020 - What is your answer?

HOLY WEΕΚ 2020 - The Cross and the world

April 24, 2020 - The joy of Pascha amidst the sorrow of a pandemic: Alexandria 262 A.D.

Day of Prayer for Overcoming the Pandemic

May 24, 2020 - The path of peace in a pandemic

PENTECOST 2020 - THE FORTRESS OF FEAR AND THE ABODE OF LOVE

June 14, 2020 - The Ascetic and the Doctor

July 5, 2020 - Are we ready? Thoughts and concerns regarding the future

July 18, 2020 - “Why?”

August 1, 2020 - When sickness has overcome you

August 12, 2020 - “Totally bewildered, I cry out to you in anguish!”

September 20, 2020 - About friendship in times of hardship

Consultation regarding the Pandemic

2η Συνεδρία – 2nd Session

7th Session - FINAL SESSION

Consultation's Summary

April 2, 2021 - The miracle of forgiveness and relationships

Appeal of Christian Health Networks Regarding Covid-19 Vaccines with the Participation of the Patriarchal Network

Farewell Nikos!

Holy Week 2021 - Pseudo-charismatics and the Cross

October 17 - The New Feast Day of the “Synaxis of the Holy Doctors”

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