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Free and spiritual
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
13 March 2018
God made us to be royalty, not to be defeatist and menial. Once we’ve begun to reign over our passions and the sins which enslave us, our spiritual freedom becomes a free, spiritual kingdom in its n...
Great Lent: Sunday Bible Reading — Week 3
13 March 2018
Today’s Gospel (Mark 8:34-38; 9:1), read on the Third Sunday of Great Lent (Sunday of the Holy Cross) is one of the most well-known Bible readings, which includes the renowned question: “For what does...
Archimandrite Agathangelos Mikhaïlidis- Xenofontinos (1908-1991)
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
13 March 2018
Athanasios Mikhailidis, as he was known in the world, was born in 1908, in Cappadocia, in the village of Moutalaski, to Victoria and Michael Mikhailidis. The village that Blessed Savvas the Sanctified...
We have to set aside
Saint John Chrysostom
12 March 2018
In this earthly life, we have to store up oil, that is perform works of charity, which will be of use to us in the next life. The more the obstacles, the greater will be the triumph of virtue....
A Review of Bonnie Thurston’s All the Fullness of God: The Christ of Colossians
John G. Panagiotou
12 March 2018
In Biblical scholar Bonnie Thurston’s latest offering to the study of the Scriptures All the Fullness of God: The Christ of Colossians, we are given a wonderful analysis of the theology of the Apostle...
They wither and die
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
11 March 2018
Downfall, then, is severance and departure on the part of any created being from the first cause of its existence, which is God. According to divine revelation, all things are the result of a cause,...
It depends on you
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
10 March 2018
When you turn to God, you don’t ask for anything, you’re not dissatisfied and you’re content with everything and everybody. You love everyone and they love you. And this depends on you, because you’...
40 DAY CHALLENGE Week 3: Faith and Good Works
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
10 March 2018
As we continue our Journey to Pascha in the “arena of virtues” known as Great Lent, this week’s installment of our 40 Day Challenge focuses on two inseparable attributes of the Christian life: Faith a...
He fights in secret
Elder Cleopa Ilie
9 March 2018
Satan never appears to people in person and is never openly revealed as our enemy. He fights in secret, indirectly, and through wicked people, using all kinds of diabolic ploys so that we won’t reco...
Can the rich be saved?
Christos Karadimos
9 March 2018
Riches and the Teaching of Saint John Chrysostom
According to Saint John Chrysostom, wealth is an ‘illusion’, a ‘fantasy’ and concern over it ‘will create tension and darkening’, leading to the delig...





