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About the Mystagogy Resource Center
The Mystagogy Resource Center is a network of websites dedicated to the preservation, translation, publication, and study of Orthodox Christian history, theology, spirituality, hagiography, apologetics, liturgics, patristics, and related subjects. The word mystagogy comes from…
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http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2023/11/back-in-2009-i-started-mystagogy-weblog.html
Back in 2009, I started the Mystagogy weblog in order to post various things of my own personal interests for Orthodox Christians, not realizing that by the end of 2022 and more than 14,000 posts later, it would become an international ministry with the expanded title of the…
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This Website Is Now Closed
Dear Readers: As I announced a few weeks ago, this website is now closed. This website currently has over 16,200 posts from 2009, and it is not designed to contain that much information. For this reason, nothing new will be added to this website. It will only serve as an archive…
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Homily on the Sunday After Theophany (St. Luke of Simferopol)
By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea (Delivered in 1957) At Vespers of Great Feasts, the so-called narratives (paremoias) are read, which are usually excerpts from the books of the Old Testament. They set out the events of former times, reminiscent and even…
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Homily Two on the Feast of the Lord’s Theophany (St. John Maximovitch)
By St. John Maximovitch "Today You appeared to the world, and Your light, O Lord, has left its mark upon us." The feast of the Baptism of the Lord was called in ancient times "the Day of Lights". The Baptism of Christ is the beginning of our enlightenment - the appearance of…
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Homily One on the Theophany of the Lord (St. Luke of Simferopol)
By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea (Delivered in 1954) All of you know that the people of Israel were the chosen people of God, but not everyone knows that this people in Holy Scripture is called the people with necks unbending as iron and foreheads as hard as…
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Homily on the Day of the Theophany Before the Blessing of the Waters (St. John Maximovitch)
By St. John Maximovitch (Delivered in Shanghai in 1947) “The heavens were opened and the Holy Spirit descended physically like a dove” on the Son of God standing in the Jordan. The voice from heaven of God the Father is heard: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased”…
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Christ Is Born, Glorify Him! (St. John Maximovitch)
By St. John Maximovitch Christ is born, glorify Him! “You were secretly born in a cave, but the heavens proclaimed You to all, O Savior, using the star as its mouth.” Quietly, silently, the Son of God descended to earth and incarnated. Like a drop of dew falls on the ground, so…
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1963 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch
1963 Christmas Message By St. John Maximovitch “Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among those whom He is pleased” (Luke 2:14). The angels sang in heaven when the Son of God was born in Bethlehem. “Glory to God in the highest” is heard in heaven to this day, in…
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Homily on the Coming New Year (St. Kallinikos of Edessa)
By the Grace of the Lord, we are at the beginning of the New Year. Behind us is the past and before us is the future. We were thinking a lot. We learn many lessons. It would be incomprehensible and completely unjustified, for reasonable people to arrive at stations in life,…
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1960 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch
1960 Christmas Message By St. John Maximovitch "Your Kingdom, O Christ our God, is a Kingdom of all the ages, and Your rule is from generation to generation." (Christmas Great Vespers) “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and…
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2023 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
PASTORAL ENCYCLICAL 104 Hierotheos by the grace of God, Bishop and Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios To the Clergy, monks and laity of our Sacred Metropolis Beloved children in the Lord, A new year has dawned and we are given the opportunity to…
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Homily Three on the New Year and the Circumcision of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)
By Archpriest Rodion Putyatin "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another" (John 13:34). For us, listeners, the commandment of mutual love is the newest commandment, because we do not know it, we forget it, we do not fulfill it, we leave it off. And therefore, for…
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1956 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch
1956 Christmas Message to the Western European and Eastern Flock By St. John Maximovitch “Let heaven be glad and earth rejoice. Our God is born from the Virgin Maiden." The Son of God came down to earth. The Creator came to His creation and settled in a miserable cave. He does…
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On the Spiritual Circumcision of the Heart (St. Gregory Palamas)
By St. Gregory Palamas Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one’s attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning, the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having…
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Homily Two on the New Year and the Circumcision of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)
By Archpriest Rodion Putyatin We now have a New Year, and we have come to the temple of God to pray; what should we pray for now, what should we ask God for ourselves in the New Year? When we came to the temple of God, listeners, did you think about it? And you should definitely…
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The Death-Bed Wager Between Saint Basil the Great and a Jewish Physician
A Jew named Joseph lived in Caesarea. He was such an experienced doctor that he knew for three or five days by the veins that someone was going to die, and told the patient the hour of their death. And our God-bearing father Basil, foreseeing by the Spirit that Joseph would turn…
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A Christmas Message From Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna in 1912
The Pole Star of the Hope of the Nations, Christ the Lord, the Savior Born To Us By Saint Chrysostomos, Metropolitan of Smyrna "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David…
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1955 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch
1955 Christmas Message By St. John Maximovitch “When Jesus the Lord was born of the holy Virgin, the whole world was enlightened. The shepherds watched in the fields, the Magi adored and the angels sang hymns of praise; but Herod was troubled: for God appeared in the flesh, the…
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1954 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch
1954 Christmas Message to the West European and East Asian Flock By St. John Maximovitch “O the depth of the riches and wisdom and mind of God! Thou hast settled in the cave, Christ God: the manger received Thee, the shepherds and the magi worshiped Thee." On the earth, full of…