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A Selection of Writings by the Metropolitan of Aleppo, Paul Yazigi – 1
22 September 2017
A. DIVINE DELIGHT AND HUMAN LOVE
“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”
“The Lord is God and has revealed Himself to us, blessed is he
who comes in the name of the Lord”.
During the... 
Our Academy Named a Patriarchal Institution
Archbishop of Canada Sotirios
22 September 2017
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has, in his venerable letter of May 24, 2017, recognized the successes of our Theological Academy, which begins its twentieth year of operations thi...
It has no power
Saint Gregory the Theologian
21 September 2017
When God gives, envy has no power, and, when He doesn’t give, effort has none....
In the Prison of Târgu-Ocna
Fr. Constantin Voicescu
21 September 2017
‘No matter how bad pain is, it has no meaning other than the cleansing of the soul which longs for salvation’ (Valeriu Gafencu).
The prison in the town of Târgu-Ocna was an oasis in the desert of pai...
The Roots of the Problem of Disconnect between Christianity and the Scientific Community [2]
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
21 September 2017
It is here that we must defend some aspects of the Scholastic movement. Our criticism of it is limited to the theological and spiritual problems that it caused, not to its overall gift of a sy...
It’s the refuge
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
20 September 2017
Our treasure, our hope, what is it? The Church, which isn’t there just to give us material things, though it does that as well. It’s true that, in the difficult trial which the Greek people is under...
Hieromonk Neofytos from Vatopedi (1876-3 April 1967)
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
20 September 2017
Agathangelos Theokharoudis, as he was known before becoming a monk, was born in 1876 to his parents, Dimitrios and Anastasia, in Gomati, Halkidiki. In 1892, he arrived at the ancient and beautiful Vat...
To Live A Spiritual Life
Fr. Stephen Freeman
20 September 2017
It has become a commonplace to hear someone say, “I’m spiritual but not religious.” Most people have a general understanding of what is meant. I usually assume that the person holds to a number of ide...
It’s not real
Saint Mark the Ascetic
19 September 2017
Don’t believe you have any virtue if it hasn’t caused you pain to acquire it. That’s a false virtue, since it was born out of comfort....
The Roots of the Problem of Disconnect between Christianity and the Scientific Community [1]
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
19 September 2017
The Scholastic Paradox
The dualistic conception of reality as consisting of abstract, disembodied ideas existing in a domain separate from and superior to that of sensible objects and movements becam...
