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How does the Holy Trinity create a person?
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
7 July 2019
It’s been noted by theological scholarship on more than one occasion that, in Orthodoxy, dogma and ethos, theory and practice, faith and life are indissolubly bound together. Every invitation to spiri... 
Byzantine Iconography οn Mt Athos
Dr. Constantine Cavarnos
7 July 2019
The Protaton, the Monastery of Vatopedi and the Cretan School
The Holy Mountain has been the great centre of Orthodox art since the fall of Constantinople. But art flourished on Mount Athos much earl...
Without impediments
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
6 July 2019
For Christ to enter into us, when we invite Him with ‘Lord Jesus Christ…’, the heart must be pure and not have any impediments.
It must be free of hatred, egotism and wickedness.
» Venerable Por...
Wealthy and lacking God
Saint Paisios the Athonite
5 July 2019
When it’s not distributed to the poor for the good of our souls and the benefit of our departed ones, wealth is a total disaster. Riches choke the soul, through great anxiety and rapacity.
When we ...
The Holy Monastery of the apostles Peter and Paul in Mount Athos
5 July 2019
This monastery appears to have already been in existence in 1018, but after many misfortunes it was restored by the Paleologue emperors in the 14th century. In the 16th century it was destroyed by pir...
Peacemakers
Saint Basil the Great
4 July 2019
Nothing is so characteristic of Christians as the fact that they’re peacemakers, because the Lord promised us our reward for this.
Saint Basil the Great...
The practical expression of Love towards the Lord
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
4 July 2019
(On the feast day of Saint Paul of Thebes and John Kalyvitis)
Our Church honours the two great saints, Paul of Thebes and John Kalyvitis. Their life stories are a little strange but quite...
Nothing so powerful as charity
Saint John Chrysostom
3 July 2019
Despite the fact that virginity, fasting and sleeping on the ground demand greater efforts, there’s nothing so powerful and so capable of extinguishing the fire of our sins as charity.
It’s superio...
What’s living within you?
Saint Isaac the Syrian
2 July 2019
When the desire for Christ is dominant within you, you remain calm in every sorrow and you know that Christ lives within you more than the world does.
And again, when sickness and the various misfort...
