Search Results for: ""
Our Blessed and God-bearing Fathers of the Holy Mountain
Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
23 June 2017
Honoring the saints is a fundamental element of Orthodox tradition and life. Through the churches dedicated to them, through the expressive icons of them as they are in eternity, through the poetic se... 
Double the benefit
Saint John the Sinaite
22 June 2017
Never respect those who criticize their neighbours. Instead, tell them: ‘Stop that. I err every day in worse ways, so who am I to condemn anybody?’ In this way you’ll have double the benefit. With o...
On the need to cut off the passions quickly before the soul becomes used to them
Abba Dorotheos
22 June 2017
Set your minds, brethren, to the examination of your affairs and don’t neglect yourselves, because even a little neglect can lead us into great danger. I lately paid a visit to a monk and found him re...
The source of all evil
Elder Cleopa Ilie
21 June 2017
The devil, the source of all evil, leads us into temptation in particular with thoughts of disbelief, blasphemy, hesitancy, despair, pride and vanity. Indirectly, he brings us into temptation throug...
Ecumenical Patriarchate purchases ancient church
21 June 2017
One of the world’s oldest churches was purchased by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the ecclesiastical center of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians. The Byzantine Basmelekler Church (also known ...
They’re enticements
Saint John of Kronstadt
20 June 2017
We shouldn’t regard with surprise and meanness of spirit the various sins, weaknesses and passions of other people. All of these are old enticements, they’re weaknesses of the whole human race. We c...
‘Intelligent’ Design? Relax, God is Stranger still
Fr. John Garvey
20 June 2017
There has been some debate, even at local school-board levels, about the theory of evolution vs. creationism and the more recently offered idea of “intelligent design.” Now Cardinal Cristoph Schönborn...
The Spiritual Heart
20 June 2017
Fr Zacharias from Holy Monastery of John the Forerunner, Essex, England, speaks on the nature of what Church Fathers call as Spiritual Heart....
The Creation of the World: The Crossroads between Theology and Science [3]
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20 June 2017
Beyond the checking of prevailing theories, which is inherent in the research process, and the required investigation of all alternative proposals, which will provide the answers sought for, it’s di...
Only a short time
Saint John Chrysostom
19 June 2017
Regret nothing other than your time. If you spend money, you can always make more. But if you waste your time, you won’t get it back. Because we’ve been granted very little time in this present life...
