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‘And from Earth to Heaven’, 30 years at Vatopaidi: the Desk Diary for 2018
5 January 2018
By God’s Grace, 30 years have now passed since the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi returned to the coenobitic way of life. For many of Pemptousia’s readers, this anniversary will not be of any p...
2nd International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care “The Living Water”
4 January 2018
DMOPC 18
Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari
18-21 June 2018
2018 Conference Theme:
The Digital World as a Sphere for the Reiteration of Pentecost and the
“living word” of Saint Paul the Ap...
The life-giving breath
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
4 January 2018
Friendship is more necessary for the soul than for the body. When you’re sad, the thought of a friend brings a smile to your face. On your death-bed, the presence of a friend beautifies the face of ...
Like people who are drunk
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
3 January 2018
Individualism lives and reigns, and deceit has become a ‘flair’. Whole generations have grown up learning how to swindle. And all of this in a set of established circumstances with absolutely no pun...
Distilling One’s Cave
Archbishop of Canada Sotirios
3 January 2018
Two thousand and seventeen years ago, our Lord chose to renew his covenant with the world and to penetrate deep into the innermost essence of human nature. In this way, we can say that God incarnate s...
Spiritual murder
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
2 January 2018
If our tongue is as sharp as a sword, then we can use it to murder people. And we do so often enough, though we don’t think of ourselves as murderers. We wound the hearts of our neighbours with slan...
The Period Between Birth and Death
Archbishop of Canada Sotirios
2 January 2018
NEW YEAR’S ENCYCLICAL
We were born and we will one day pass on from this life. This is certain. On this earth, there is no immortality. Immortality and the endless age exists only to life after death...
Take courage
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
1 January 2018
Courage, courage. Keep gazing upwards and you’ll see the Lord, when you weep. When you seek with longing, when you bleed, you might see Him stretching out His loving and comforting hand and holding ...
Saint Basil the Great
1 January 2018
Don't miss the award-winning New Year episode of Sister Vassa, featuring Saint Basil the Great and other puzzling, non-orthodox phenomena....
New year’s message from Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea
Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea
1 January 2018
My beloved,
We now enter another New Year, which is a precious gift from God to the world, and we wish and hope it will be a peaceful one. In particular, those who have suffered recently and are stil...





