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The Byzantine Dimitria: When Thessaloniki Celebrated with the Entire Western World
Stelios Koukos
27 October 2017
The Dimitria, the festival of Saint Dimitrios, the patron saint of Thessaloniki, was an exceptional feast for the whole of the Western world. The work ‘Timarion’, which was written in the 12th century...
Earthly heaven
Saint John the Sinaite
26 October 2017
Purity means a desirable home for Christ on earth and an earthly heaven of the heart, supernatural renunciation of human nature....
The Holy Spirit and the Mystery of the wine and oil
Brother Pakhoum
26 October 2017
(Previous publication: http://bit.ly/2zFm6yQ)
The Holy Spirit is very zealous in these End Times to bring out of His manifold divine stores His manifold redemptive gift to every part of earth. He div...
It does us no good
Saint Basil the Great
25 October 2017
It’s shameful for us to waste our time today and then later to keep revisiting the past, when such regrets are no longer of any use to us....
Biodiversity in the Epistle of Barnabas and References to Animals in Leviticus
Moskhos Goutzioudis, Assistant Professor of the New Testament, A. U. Th.
25 October 2017
The author of the epistle had in mind the legal regulations regarding clean and unclean animals in Judaism, which we encounter in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. It’s obvious that, for the compilat...
Announcement of the falling asleep in the Lord of Fr. Charalambos Elles
V. Rev. Fr. Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos, Office Director Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto (Canada)
25 October 2017
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto (Canada) announces with deep sorrow that our beloved Protopresbyter Charalambos Elles fell asleep in the Lord today, October 24th.
Fr. Charalambos was born in...
On the rock of faith
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
24 October 2017
Bind your soul to the rock of faith. Never mind what waves come at you, they’ll break on the rock of faith and all obstacles will be overcome....
Wine makes glad the heart of man (Psalm 104: 15)
Brother Pakhoum
24 October 2017
(Previous publication: http://bit.ly/2zFm6yQ)
It is written that wine makes glad the heart of man (Psalm 104: 15) and that the joy of the Lord is our strength (Nehemiah 8: 10). The Holy Spirit pours ...
It’s the same
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
23 October 2017
We should also note that we priests often lose the wonderful entry into the presence of God at the Holy Sacrament of the Anaphora, because we weren’t in God’s presence enough before we came to the D...
They should have decorum
Saint Gregory the Theologian
22 October 2017
Like everything else, marriage between Christians should involve decorum, and decorum is modesty....





