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It has no other way
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
27 January 2018
A humbled heart, which has first been wounded by the arrows of the enemy and then, after repentance, by the paternal love of the Saviour, has no other way of expressing itself but by tears. It’s naï... 
The Icon of Our Lady of Consolation
26 January 2018
As you go up the staircase to the right of the central door of the main church of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, there’s a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Consolation. It was here that the...
The atmosphere of Paradise
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
26 January 2018
People who live in the Kingdom of Heaven radiate saintly thoughts. Divine thoughts. The Kingdom of God creates within us an atmosphere of Paradise, quite the opposite of the hellish atmosphere which...
The Unceasing Endeavour for Real Life
Fr. Gennadios Manolis, Theologian
26 January 2018
The spiritual life, concerning which there has been much discussion, is simply what we do, in conjunction with God’s Grace, in order to achieve the aim of our existence, which is glorification.
The s...
Heaven’s newspapers
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
25 January 2018
The newspapers in heaven write about everything that happens here, both the good and the bad. The faithful should be simple in their actions, and pure in their thoughts and feelings. They should see...
2nd International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care “The Living Water”
25 January 2018
Athens Greece, 24 January 2018
2nd International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care
“The Living Water”
DMOPC 18
Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari
18-21 June 2018
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We don’t have the right
Elder Gavriil Tsafos †
24 January 2018
We have lots of reasons to be tired, sad, or fallen. But we don’t have the right to give up, we don’t have the right to lay these burdens down....
Animosity
Monk Arsenios of the Skete of Koutloumousiou, the Holy Mountain
24 January 2018
According to Saint John of the Ladder, pride means: ‘Denial of God, an invention of the demons’. To put it more simply, pride was discovered and invented by the devil. Lucifer refused to render venera...
Analysis of I Timothy, 9-15
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
23 January 2018
The Epistle reading for the Sunday of Zacchaeus is taken from the first Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy and contains advice from the Apostle to his disciple and collaborator Timothy, whom he left in ...
