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The purifying prayer
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
19 October 2018
Every prayer of the Church assists with the purification of the heart. But especially the Jesus Prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, sinner that I am’.
This prayer, which has been passed do... 
Energy and personality in the theology of John Meyendorf and in contemporary philosophy (3)
Sergey Horujy, Academician
19 October 2018
Bibikhin’s positions in the energy problem are close in many points to the positions by Heidegger (he was the translator of Heidegger’s principal works in Russian, and his general philosophical stan...
Avarice, the Grave Sickness of the Soul
Fotis Kondoglou
19 October 2018
‘Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near’ (Lk. 12, 33)
‘Avarice is the root of all evils’ (I Tim. 6, 10)
Of all the...
Don’t foster sorrows
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
18 October 2018
Don’t foster sorrows in your heart because the joy of the evil one is sorrow and despondency, which beget many things which fill the soul with bitterness.
>Blessed Joseph the Hesychast...
Do you Judge with Love or Misanthropy?
Saint John Chrysostom
18 October 2018
From Homily XIII on the Gospel of Saint Matthew
If you forgive your neighbours, before you free them of any burden, you release yourself from your sins, without any effort. And if you examine the sin...
Awareness
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
17 October 2018
As the image of God, people should be self-aware, free and in control of themselves, because if awareness is taken away from them, they become unfree and are ruled by others. They’re unworthy of the...
Energy and personality in the theology of John Meyendorf and in contemporary philosophy (2)
Sergey Horujy, Academician
17 October 2018
Contemporary philosophy could say perhaps that in Orthodox theology, both in Meyendorff and Palamas himself, the principle of energy did not obtain sufficiently high status and central place. After ...
