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How the Church approaches its sinful children Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 1 June 2023 The notion that the Church has laws for all people and all circumstances appears not to be the case in practice. Moreover, such an idea would negate the uniqueness of the person and would amalgamate a...
It levels us all Saint Dimitri of Rostov 1 June 2023 Therefore, the more you’re honored, the less you should consider yourself worthy of honor and keep firmly in your heart the outlook of humility. Remember death, which makes us all equal: rich and ...
Ecumenical Synods and the Church of the Holy Wisdom Protopresbyter Mihaïl Efthymiou 31 May 2023 Before we embark on the presentation of our subject, we need to discuss the time of the construction of the church of the Holy Wisdom . The church of the Holy Wisdom was built in honor of Christ. The...
It’s a condition Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou † 31 May 2023 True worship of the Creator results in love of the created. You can’t truly and properly love people unless you’ve been fired by the theanthropic love of Christ in the furnace of worship and the l...
How people become atheists Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 30 May 2023 ‘There’s a danger that, if people pay no attention to little things, this neglect will then extend to greater and more sacred ones, without their realizing. They vindicate themselves by saying that th...
It’s all of this Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk 30 May 2023 With God, misfortune is success, poverty’s wealth, obscurity’s fame, dishonor’s honor and tribulations are full of consolation. Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk...
The 1st Ecumenical Synod Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios 29 May 2023 The first Ecumenical Synod was convened in Nicaea, Bithynia, in the year 325, by Constantine the Great. Efstathios of Antioch, Alexandros of Alexandria and, perhaps, Hosius of Cordoba served as chairm...
Sunday of the Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 29 May 2023 ‘Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent’ (Jn. 17, 3). The Gospel reading for the Sunday of the Fathers is part of the high priestly prayer  o...
The Fall of Constantinople, Queen of Cities Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist 29 May 2023 Today (May 29), the Orthodox Church remembers the Fall of Constantinople, the Queen of Cities, in 1453. Named after Saint Constantine the Great, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire ...
On the Fall of Constantinople Constantine Cavafy 29 May 2023 TAKEN I’ve recently been reading folk songs, about the exploits of the klephts and wars, our own, engaging Greek affairs. ‘They’ve taken the City, taken it; they’ve taken Saloniki’. And the Voic...
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