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The Church pays medical science the honor due to it
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
14 June 2019
Despite this, we can’t ignore the value of medical science, which comes as a gift from God to comfort us in the sickness of our spiritual and bodily condition. Christ Himself came into the world as ...
An affliction both slight and gross
Saint John of the Ladder
13 June 2019
Denigration signals the birth of hatred. It’s a delicate affliction, but also a substantial one. It’s a fat leech, hidden away and unmanifested, sucking out and destroying the blood of love. It mean...
Are you weak or strong?
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
12 June 2019
When you place your trust in other people, you’re being weak, but when your place it in God you’re being strong. Cleave to God and all His power will be with you. Confess your weakness before Him an...
Transplants and brain death
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
12 June 2019
Transplants have become part of everyday life in modern society. The positive and negative positions which have been expressed on them in ecclesiastical and theological circles have usually been of a ...
General medication
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
11 June 2019
Prayer is our help in life, a conversation with God, an obliviousness towards earthly things, an ascent into heaven. It’s a general medication against the passions and protects us from them. It brin...
He’s an artist
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
10 June 2019
Satan’s a master of his craft. He steals the present from us and promises us the future....
Who does it depend on?
Saint John Chrysostom
9 June 2019
Change doesn’t depend on Him Who has sown, but on those who don’t want to mend their ways....
The serpents of temptation
Elder Arsenie Boca
8 June 2019
Those who reveal to their spiritual guide the serpents of the temptations are people who show their true faith. Those who hide them are following the road to perdition....
The ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme for Advanced Studies in Orthodox Spiritual Life and Theology
7 June 2019
Scholarship Programme
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Saint Maxim the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship...
Stupid, false and deceptive
Saint John of Kronstadt
7 June 2019
Sinners won’t achieve remission of their sins unless they first realize with all their heart that these are senseless, destructive and illusory. Just as they committed the sin and found it pleasant ...





