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It’s worth the effort
Elder Filotheos Zervakos
20 August 2017
The devil has lots of traps he sets to catch people. So love, concord and peace are absent from the world, and, in their place pride, anger envy viciousness and prodigality dominate, with people hav... 
Charity is a heart burning for the whole of creation
Protopresbyter Stefanos Anagnostopoulos
20 August 2017
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So if you have something to say, if you’re a good speaker, if you know how to present things and so on, then use this for the benefit and instruction of others, in all humility.
And if you have ...
Let go & let God
20 August 2017
A 2-minute, New Year's reflection, on letting go and letting God, hosted by Dr. Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna in Austria...
Christianity and Ancient Art: Rupture or Dialogue? [1]
Ioanna Stoufi-Poulimenou
20 August 2017
When, in the fifth century, the space in Hadrian’s Library in Athens was divided equally between pagans and Christians, the relations between what appeared to be the two flourishing communities in the...
Limit the opportunities
Saint Mark the Ascetic
19 August 2017
Our minds are clouded by three passions: avarice, vainglory and sensual pleasure. In order to counter these passions, we have the commandment not to love the world and the things in it. It’s not, of...
ICU – At the Border between Life and Death [3]
Nikolaos Metropolitan of Mesogaias and Lavreotikis
19 August 2017
D. Findings-Conclusions
1) Life and death transcend us as an instant, as a process and as events.
2) The closer we get to actually creating life purely through artificial means, the easier it makes ...
We pay attention to the doctor but not to Christ
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
18 August 2017
If a doctor gives us a diet, for the good of our health, we follow it religiously. What’s a diet? It’s fasting, or abstention from various foods. But we don’t follow the diet set by God. We listen t...
Don’t pamper your body
Saint John of Kronstadt
17 August 2017
Don’t take undue care of your body. Don’t spoil it and give it pride of place over the spirit. Otherwise, when you want to do spiritual work, such as prayer, for example, you’ll see that the flesh h...
