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He creates opportunities
Elder Cleopa Ilie
3 October 2018
Satan pressurizes only because we allow him to, he triggers our passions and the bodily and spiritual urges of our nature. He creates opportunities for sin, always reminds us of the times we’ve fall... 
On Suffering Temptations Calmly and Gladly (1)
Abba Dorotheos
3 October 2018
Abba Pimin was right to say that the sign of a true monk is how he reacts to temptation. According to the Wisdom of Sirach (2, 1), a monk who truly comes to work for God should prepare his soul agains...
The project of synergic anthropology: spiritual practice as the basics for a new conception of man (part 2)
Sergey Horujy, Academician
3 October 2018
2. Hesychasm in the prism of anthropological reflection
Synergic anthropology starts with the complete reconstruction of hesychast anthropology. Let us point out its principal elements and stages.
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True Autonomy is Achieved through Humility
Christoforos Papadopoulos, Theologian
2 October 2018
True autonomy is achieved through humility, in other words through the emptying of the self in order to make room for all others. The saints imitate the humility of Christ in His sacrifice on the Cros...
To die a perfect death
Elder - Thaddeus of Vitovnica
2 October 2018
Unless you sacrifice your self for the sake of the slightest virtue or shed blood in order to receive the Spirit, you’ll never achieve virtue. This is how God arranged things, with his providential po...
The Aim
Saint John of Kronstadt
1 October 2018
If you don’t want to be enslaved to the passions and the devil on a daily basis, you have to set yourself an aim that you’ll always bear in mind and that you’ll try to achieve, overcoming all obstacle...
For Great Profits (II Cor. 9, 6-11)
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
1 October 2018
One of the worst of the notions prevalent in the secular outlook is the tactic of least effort. Those who espouse it- and unfortunately they’re in the majority- seek, with the least effort, or none if...
The project of synergic anthropology: spiritual practice as the basics for a new conception of man (part 1)
Sergey Horujy, Academician
1 October 2018
1. “The tiny rescued bit”
What stands high on the agenda of modern philosophizing is radical anthropological reflection. The “overcoming of metaphysics” has been virtually completed in the last mille...
Visions,Vows and Wonders: Religion and the Sea in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-19th centuries
1 October 2018
A very interesting conference will take place on 12th and 13th October, in Rethymnon, Crete. The title of the conference is "Visions,Vows and Wonders: Religion and the Sea in the Eastern Mediterrane...
