Top 25 Posts of 2017 by the Mystagogy Resource Center

I want to thank all my readers for continuing their support of the ministry of the Mystagogy Resource Center in 2017. Without your continued support, it would not exist, and articles like the ones below certainly would not exist online. I do hope you continue to support this ministry in 2018, and help it to grow as it has steadily over the years. There are only better things ahead.

Below are the top 25 posts from all the websites of the Mystagogy Resource Center, along with the number of hits they have received. Some are surprising to say the least, especially the #1 post of the year, which is also the #1 most viewed post in the history of the Mystagogy Resource Center. I hope you enjoyed them all.

1. Rapper Rick Ross Shoots "Santorini Greece" Music Video Inside Orthodox Church Without Permission, Local Metropolis Reacts to the Desecration  - 110,966

2. Hank Hanegraaff (a.k.a. "the Bible Answer Man") Received Into the Orthodox Church - 53,130

3. A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2017  - 29,068

4. A Recent Miracle of St. Savvas of Kalymnos for a Couple from England  - 16, 092

5. The Snakes of the Panagia Have Made Their Appearance in Kefallonia (2017) - 11,463

6. Why Orthodox Churches Are Decorated With Trees, Grass and Flowers on Pentecost - 7,854

7. The Hospital Room St. Nektarios Reposed In and Did His First Posthumous Miracle - 6,569

8. Holy and Great Saturday Resource Page - 6,083

9. Why Did The Lord Forbid Mary Magdalene From Touching Him After His Resurrection? - 5,893

10. The Meaning of Memorial Services in the Orthodox Church (St. Symeon of Thessaloniki) - 5,827

11. Large Crowds Gathering to Venerate a Bleeding Icon of Saint Nektarios in Rhodes - 5,681

12. What We Often Call Fasting Is Not Fasting - 5,617

13. The Abbot of the Athonite Old Esphigmenou Monastery Gets Twenty Years in Prison - 4,902

14. 8 Year Old Mute Girl Spoke for First Time Before the Icon of Panagia Gorgoepikoos - 4,867

15. How a Recent Helicopter Crash Survivor in Greece Miraculously Survived - 4,302

16. Documentary: "Athos – The Last Monastic Republic" (2016) - 4,235

17. New Church Dedicated to St. Paisios the Athonite Consecrated in Syria - 3,900

18. The Curse of Saint Nektarios and the Seville Soccer Team - 3,770

19. Did an "Open Eye" Miracle Recently Take Place at the Holy Sepulchre? - 3,598

20. Does Canon 15 of the First-Second Synod of 861 Allow for "Walling-Off" Against Ecumenists? - 3,523

21. Halloween as a Mockery of the Devil - 3,415

22. 21 Horror Movies That May Interest Orthodox Christians - 3,204

23. Rick Steves’ European Easter: Greek Orthodox Celebrations (Video) - 3,121

24. Orthodox Images of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah - 2,837

25. How Should We Understand the Visions of Aerial Toll Houses? - 2,688