Religion | PEMPTOUSIA

Encomium on the Beheading of the Great Forerunner – 3 Saint Theodore the Studite 30 August 2022 According to the Gospel, his disciples then came, took away his body and bu...

Interceding for Us (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast) Elder Ephraim in Arizona † 29 August 2022 When I was abroad in 1987 I saw Geronda again in my sleep after finishing m...

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. A personal note James W. Lillie 27 August 2022 I first met Father Kallistos, as he then was, in Oxford. That he was a prie...

‘All generations call you blessed, only Mother of God’ Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th. 21 August 2022 When, after the Annunciation, the Virgin Mary visited her kinswoman Elizabe...

”He was nourished by prayer and did not feel the pangs of hunger”: New Martyr Theocharis from Neapolis, Asia Minor 21 August 2022 In 1740, the Ottoman Empire was at war and Sultan Ahmet ordered that all th...

Orthodox Spirituality Sotirios Balatsoukas, Professor of Hagiology 19 August 2022 Orthodox spirituality is the life of the christian which is inclined to bec...

The Dormition of the Mother of God George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 17 August 2022 In the hymnography of the Orthodox Church, the Mother of God is called ‘god...

The Dormition of the Mother of God. Transition to Life (2) Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 15 August 2022 After the resurrection of Christ, Our Lady was the support of the apostle...

The Dormition of the Mother of God – Transition to Life Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 14 August 2022 Every time we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God it’s as though w...

The Dormition of the Mother of God: a liturgical approach Ioannis Foundoulis Professor of the Theological School A. U. Th. † 14 August 2022 The feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God is celebrated on August 15 ...