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Living truly
Saint Theophan the Recluse
21 June 2018
To live truly, we have to live in the way God ordained when He made us.
Unless we do, we aren’t living at all.... 
The Church as a Therapeutic Center: Consequences of Man’s Fall
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios
21 June 2018
The neptic teaching of the Church that refers to the inner world is strongly related to the social teaching. It might be supposed that the ascetic life of the Church has no contact with reality. In fa...
Magnificent and unknown providence
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
20 June 2018
We live as though we don’t feel the magnificence of divine providence.
God’s very adroit. We can’t understand His actions.
Don’t think that God’s done something wrong and then corrected it: God does...
A Life Centred on Christ or on Ourselves?
20 June 2018
The third Sunday of Matthew, and the Gospel reading, attempts, perhaps more than at any other time, to get us to move us to make a change, to put to right inclinations which are foreign and alien to u...
Time to open the door to Him
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
19 June 2018
Christ comes lots of times and knocks at your door.
You ask Him into the sitting-room of your soul and then get involved with other tasks and forget all about the great Visitor.
He waits for you to ...
The Church as a Therapeutic Center: The Illness of the Soul
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios
19 June 2018
When speaking about the illness of the soul, we primarily mean the loss of Divine Grace, which has repercussions to the body also, and then the whole person is sick. There might be an absence of bodil...
Non-Gender and One-Gender in the Gnostic Gospels (4)
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
19 June 2018
The distinction between the sexes isn’t the inspiration of a wicked God Who created the material body which the supporters of gender Theory are called upon to set to rights. For Orthodox theology, the...
Prayer and power
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
18 June 2018
The Jesus prayer gives you so much sweetness, so much joy. It’s short, but it’s got so much power. So much, that you say: ‘Even if I go to hell, I’m not afraid. I’ll just say the prayer there, as we...
The Babel Syndrome
Fr. Stephen Freeman
18 June 2018
In the liturgical life of the Church, the event of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and they began to speak in various languages, is linked to the story of the Tower of Babel ...
