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Like a rock Saint Joseph the Hesychast 5 July 2017 Don’t be cast down in the midst of sorrows and temptations, but with Christ’s love assuage the anger and the cantankerousness. The less patience you have, the greater your temptations seem.. And the...
Open window Elder Moisis the Athonite † 5 July 2017 We’ve said before that God is not wrathful, bent on punishment and revenge. If He were, He would be bad. But there’s no trace of badness in the divinity. Every trial is an education from God and is...
Your sole concern Saint Theophan the Recluse 4 July 2017 Prove to God, in practice, that you’ve given yourself up to Him completely, that you’re not concerned about anything, that you accept, calmly and without complaint, whatever He sends, pleasant or ot...
Luther and the factors affecting preaching in medieval Germany Professor Dimitra Koukoura, School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 4 July 2017 C. Luther’s sermon 1. The rhetorical environment On the eve of the Reformation, at the end of the 15th century, preaching in Germany presents the following picture : a) Itinerant preachers attrac...
Moral issues: Euthanasia Fr. Stanley Harakas 4 July 2017 Does an individual ever have the "right to die?" Must life be prolonged when there is little or no chance of its res­toration to "meaningful existence?" Is there any moral jus­tification for curtailin...
Do whatever you have to in order to experience Him Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea 3 July 2017 Do whatever you have to in order to experience Him and bring Him into your heart. So He can soften your heart with the touch of grace, every time you recall how much God loves you and how He’s prote...
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia: “Material Desires” 3 July 2017 Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki speaks about Material Desires and the Hidden Need of Contemporary People...
On Control of the Stomach Saint John Cassian 3 July 2017 Saint John Cassian was born c. 360, probably in Scythia Minor, now Dobruja in modern-day Romania and Bulgaria. He died in 435 in Marseilles. His feast day as a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Churches i...
They saw to the needs Saint Basil the Great 2 July 2017 The grief and the tears of the Saints came from their profound feelings of love for God. The Saints experienced the presence of God all the time and this increased their joy accordingly. At the same...
Reflections on the infallibility of European Man – Part I Saint Justin Popovich 2 July 2017 1. After God, man is, without a doubt, the most mysterious and enigmatic entity in all the realms of human thought. At the bottomless depth of human existence there whirl contradictions which defy rec...
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