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Why we should not judge our neighbour Abba Dorotheos 15 November 2017 Sunday’s Gospel of the Good Samaritan has as its core message ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself’. But the story is a reply to a specific question and obviously doesn’t exhaust all facets of th...
The Holy Apostle Philip Georgios Papademetropoulos 15 November 2017 The holy and renowned Apostle Philip came from Bethsaida in Galilee, that is the same town of which Saints Andrew and Peter were residents. He was distinguished for his depth of understanding and spen...
There’s no end to it Saint Joseph the Hesychast 14 November 2017 God can’t be described and is not finite. Neither can His properties be. If, through the grace of the Holy Spirit, people enter into the bosom of glorification, they experience all these endless, im...
The Sanctification of the Human Body Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 14 November 2017 The human person is the temple of the living God. This is an Apostolic teaching of our Church, which means that, just as the grace of God, the grace of the Holy Spirit, resides in a church, the same i...
Fasting and Science Dr. Constantine Cavarnos 14 November 2017 According to the Greek Orthodox calendar, the period from the 15th of November till the 24th of December is a fastening period, a time of preparation before the great feast of the Nativity of Christ. ...
Message by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the UNFCCC COP-23 Session Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 13 November 2017 Bonn, Germany, November 6-17, 2017 The 23rd session of the United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change provides occasion to recall with introspection and reflect with integrity on the ...
Bigger and more serious things Abba Dorotheos 13 November 2017 If we remembered the words of the holy Elders, if we studied them, it would be difficult for us to fall into sin, hard for us to neglect ourselves. Because if, precisely as they’ve advised us, we di...
Saint John Chrysostom: Condign Retribution and Reward! Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 13 November 2017 Punishment and reward. Both of these are in the hands of God. But just as life on earth is no more than a shadow of that in heaven, by the same token, punishment and reward  are merely a shadow of the...
You breathe in its perfume Saint John of Kronstadt 12 November 2017 Antipathy, hatred and envy should be unknown to any Christian. We shouldn’t even know their names. How can Christians have antipathy within them? You see love everywhere, you breathe in its aroma. G...
Saint John the Alms-Giver 12 November 2017 John was born on the island of Cyprus. His father was the eparch, a man of renown, called Epifanios. John was brought up from childhood as a real Christian and, against his will, but because his paren...
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