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The gift of wine and oil Brother Pakhoum 22 October 2017 ‘A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan’ (Psalm 68: 15). Mount Athos in Greece is the mountain of the good wine and the divine olive oil. This is the divine redemptive gift of this land. The s...
Great and frightening gift Saint Sophrony of Essex 21 October 2017 God wants everyone to be saved and we should be thinking about the salvation of everyone and should pray for them all. But neither revelation nor experience provide us with a basis for claiming that...
Archons Investiture in Canada 21 October 2017 A Hierarchical Great Vespers was held on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Toronto for the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, presided by His Eminence Metropolitan S...
Boldness Saint Isaac the Syrian 20 October 2017 Through patience, we arrive at humility and thereafter we enjoy God’s grace. Boldness towards God is acquired through a clear conscience and works of virtue....
Who haven’t people mocked? Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 20 October 2017 Writing to someone on the subject of confession, Saint Nikolaj had this to say: You want to know if confession is so important. At one time you used to go more frequently for confession, but you sto...
‘Submission to State Authority has its Limits’ Agapi Papadopoulou, Theologian 20 October 2017 When people of merit avoid political power, then it’s left to the undeserving to assume it. Naturally, Christians would prefer the implementation of civil power to be in the hands of people of the f...
You can’t uproot them Saint Mark the Ascetic 19 October 2017 The source of all wickedness is vainglory and love of pleasure. If you don’t hate those passions, you won’t be able to root out any of the other ones....
It means this Elder Gavriil Tsafos † 18 October 2017 To live in an Orthodox manner means: a) I love God very much; b) I try not to sadden Him; c) through my life, I bear witness to Christ....
The Attitude of the Saints towards the Maladies of their Era Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi 18 October 2017 We feel sad, worried, exposed and afraid not only because of external events, but also because we ourselves have lost the centre of our lives. We’ve become subject to the temptations which Christ re...
Bring faith back into Canadian politics Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist 18 October 2017 TORONTO—I recently attended a leadership workshop where a guest speaker spoke about the importance of listening, supporting her point by articulating that “God” gave us two ears, but only one mouth, s...
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