Episodes
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The Most Beautiful Aroma One Could Smell
St. Raphael appears to Alexandra and relieves her excruciating pain in the midst of a lingering heavenly aroma.
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Resurrected to Serve the Lord
A young married Nicholas Kossis is brought back from the brink of death by the Lord Himself to dedicate his life to the Holy Priesthood. https://app.box.com/s/je8ymkg3yt794onvuih60a55g9fd1rxy
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St. Demetrios and Gerontissa Gavrilia
The fervent prayers of a family from Thessaloniki are heard by St. Demetrios and answered.
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This Is Happening For You
St. Dionysios of Zakynthos appears to a young camper at Ionion Village to help her to believe. Sources: Michelle Argyropoulos Costidakis and Fr. Costa Sitaras.
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We Must Believe in God with Philotimo
‘15-year old’ St. Paisios sees the Resurrected Lord after a crisis of faith. Source: SPIRITUAL AWAKENING Saint Paisios of Mount Athos Spiritual Counsels Vol. II from the Holy Monastery “Evangelist John the Theologian” Souroti, Thessaloniki, GREECE.
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From All Distresses and Dangers Deliver Me
A young teenage girl writes a letter of thanks for the Mother of God delivering her from despair encountering the miracle-working icon of the Kardiotissa. Source: Fr. Mark Leasure
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St. Theophan the Recluse on Miracles
St. Theophan explains how simplicity of heart is necessary to believe in the Lord's miracles contained in Holy Scripture and that continue to happen in the Life of the Church to this very day, while pride in one's own thinking and knowledge blinds us from seeing the Power of God at work in Christ...
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St. Porphyrios and the Taxi Cab Driver
A Taxi Cab Driver in Athens finds out that God is calling him to repent through St. Porphyrios' gift of foresight.
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The Boy With the Red Shorts
A young man is released from a life-long burden by the Mother of God Source: Fr. Mark Leasure
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The Light of Christ, My Child
A spiritual child understands the Grace of God present in his spiritual father. Source: A monk of Simonopetra; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: St. Symeon the New Theologian and his Teaching on the Vision of the Divine Light
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St. Nicholas and Konstanti
St. Nicholas comes to a poor motherless boy and promises to care for him for the rest of his life. Source: Ascetics in the World, Vol. 1
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Abortion is Not the Answer
A mother keeps her faith and trust in God and gives birth to a beautiful son. Source: Marie Patestas from Sts. Constantine & Helen in Reading, PA.
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Oil of the Panagia
The Mother of God provides two large clay vessels full of olive oil to the monks at Simonopetra during the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple. Source: The Fathers of Simonopetra
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The Doctor and the Demons
A Pediatrician who doubts the existence of demons is allowed by God to have a first-hand experience. Source: Dr. Anastasia Petrides
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Fr. Yannadios and the Talanton
An elderly monk gives one last call to his brothers before leaving this life. Source: The Fathers at the Holy Monastery of Simonopetra on Mt. Athos
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The Sign of the Lord
St. Theophan the Recluse explains why the Lord did not do the signs demanded of Him by the Pharisees. Source: Thoughts for Each Day of the Year by St. Theophan the Recluse published by Sretensky Monastery, Moscow and St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, CA.
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Out of This Mud and Blood
Description: The miracle-working bust of Archangel Michael, made from mud and the blood of martyred monks, continues over a thousand years to reveal the heavenly protection of the Archangel. Source: Μοναστήρια Της Ελλάδας Website; John Sanidopoulos' Mystagogy Resource Center
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On the Lord's Discretion in Working Miracles
How the Lord only works miracles, then and now, that are necessary and appropriate for man's salvation. Source:Homilies Vol. 2 of St. Nikolai Velimirovich: the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: The multiplication of the loaves of bread and fish.
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The Weeping Icons of Camp Nazareth
The Mother of God makes her presence tangible to the campers at Camp Nazareth in 1988 through 19 tear-streaming icons of her. Source: Fr. John Chakos' article in the book: Appearances and Miracles of the Panagia from the Holy Monastery of Paraklitou translated by John Sanidopoulos.
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An Encounter with the Mother of God
An amazing reservoir of God’s grace and seemingly endless source of miraculous healings and conversions/affirmations of faith have come from this 9-year long myrrh streaming icon of the Mother of God known as Kardiotissa whose home is St. George Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church in Taylor, PA....
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The Holy Fire 2020
This miraculously appearing sign of the uncreated Light of God in the form of Holy Fire has been happening for centuries at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Orthodox Christian Holy Saturday.
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I Saw the Holy Angels
A young boy in Greece sees a multitude of Holy Angels but is told by his mother not to speak of it. He finally relates the story to a reporter in his old age. Source: P.M. Sotirchos See the attached prayer from the small compline service.
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Just Look Ahead
St. Porphyrios appears to two separate people after his death, one in person and one over the phone. Source: Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Oropos, Attika Greece.
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How Dare You Close These Doors
An icon of the Mother of God “The Directress” at St. Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, IL. that began to weep in 1986 has touched the lives of faithful throughout the world. Source: “You Are the God Who Creates Miracles” The Story of Our Lady of Chicago compiled by Fr. Michael S. Rosco
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I Am St. Nectarios
A young woman prays to die but St. Nectarios appears to give her hope. Source: This story was related by the woman herself to me and to the parish of Holy Cross in Stroudsburg, PA on the feast day of the Saint.
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Beauty and the Priest
A beautiful 3rd Century Martyr appears to a pious 20th Century Priest. Sources: Annunciation Church, Manhattan, NY; Sts. Constantine & Helen Church, Reading, PA; the Synaxarion Vol. 5 by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra; Ασματική Ακολουθία της Αγίας Ξενίας της Θαυματουργόυ εκ Καλάμων της...
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My Lord and My God
A Homily of St. Gregory the Dialogist on the good disbelief of Thomas Source: Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion from HDM Press
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A Great Sign
Holy Martyrs who had died five hundred years earlier appear to a whole village around 1960 on the Island of Mytilene and tell the amazing story of their martyrdom, confirmed by the pick-axe and by history. Source: Photios Kontoglou, Dr. Constantine Cavarnos, and others.
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Fr. Justinos and St. Philoumenos
A remarkable priest-monk, Fr. Justinos relates the miraculous protection of the Church of St. Photini at Jacob's Well in 2005 from tanks by the New Martyr, St. Philoumenos. Source: Archmandrite Justinos
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St. Paisios and the Relics
Fr. Theodore's account of how he came to be blessed with a small portion of three relics that once were in the possession of St. Paisios.
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St. Nicholas Appears in a Pilgrim's Photo
One of countless miracles happening to this day in the Church of St. Nicholas in Beit Jala, Palestine, St. Nicholas "shows up" to show us that he is still with us to hear our prayers. To see the photo referred to, open the attachment connected to this episode.
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St. Nikolai on Why the Lord “Makes” Miracles
St. Nikolai Velimirovic explains in one of his homilies "why" the Lord would use miracles to reveal Himself and His will to mankind. Source: Homilies of St. Nikolai Velimirovic, Vol. 1
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Two Sisters
The Lord permits a younger sister to appear from beyond the grave to her older sister to ease the pain and resentment the older felt at the passing of the younger. Source: Suffering and Salvation, Fr. Seraphim Aleksiev.
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The Blessed Symeon
The blessed simplicity of a man who kept his faith through many hardships in his life brings about a wondrous series of visits from the Lord leading up to his departure from this life. Source: Asetics in the World, St. Nikodemos Publication Society [Fr. Nicholas Palis]. All proceeds from the sale...
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A Saint for a Pandemic
A modern Saint of the Church, St. Nikiforos the Leper, canonized in 2012, is praying for those who are faithfully turning to him during this Coronavirus Pandemic. Source: Saint Nikiforos The Leper & Wonderworker written by Simon the Monk and translated in English and published by the Greek…
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Light in the Darkness
How young priest monk Geronta Aimilianos was transformed by the Uncreated Light of God to become a charismatic holy elder in our times.Taken from an article from the Orthodox Word Magazine 296 (2014) written by Fr. Maximos Constas entitled The Life and Teachings of Elder Aimilianos, parts 1 & 2....
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Introduction to Signs In Our Times
Fr. Theodore Petrides welcomes you to the first episode and talks about the premise behind the podcast.
About this show
Fr. Theodore Petrides shares short stories of miracles in our time presented that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ. And that believing we may have life in His name.
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Fr. Theodore Petrides, and Ancient Faith Ministries
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