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Untroubled and joyful
Saint Nilos the Ascetic
11 June 2017
Just as bread is the food of the body, so prayer nourishes the mind. Don’t wish for what you think is good for you, but what is pleasing to God. Then you’ll be untroubled and joyful in your prayer....
So Great A Cloud of Witnesses
Fr. Stephen Freeman
11 June 2017
…who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made str...
Christians and politics
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos †
10 June 2017
Woe betide Christians who say: ‘This or that political party expresses the way I feel’. They’re a long way from being conscientious Christians. No party expresses the way Christians feel. And you ca...
Which are the Ancient Oriental Churches? An attempt to get to know them
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
10 June 2017
At the Ecumenical Synod at Chalcedon (451), a considerable number of Christians went their own way. They were a group of Churches (the Coptic in Egypt, the Armenian, the Ethiopian, the Syro-Jacobite, ...
Make the effort
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
9 June 2017
Now try to become as close to God as you can through prayer and a strict life. Keep the rule your spiritual guide has given you and try to feel God....
St Maximus the Confessor, the new Volume of Analogia, The Pemptousia Journal for Theological Studies
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Loudovikos
8 June 2017
The second volume of Analogia, The Pemptousia Journal for Theological Studies, has been published recently and is dedicated to St Maximus the Confessor. It is best, perhaps, to introduce St Maximus ...
It’s two-sided
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
8 June 2017
In its nature, repentance has two sides to it, both of which are beneficial during the course of our life. The first is contrition over the mistakes we’ve made, and the second is correction of the m...
The Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
8 June 2017
"...the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings" (Mal.4:2 ). "And He spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing" (Lk.9:11 ).
Afte...
Together with the angels
Saint Gregory the Theologian
7 June 2017
What is the Kingdom of Heaven? Contemplation of God, praising and hymning Him together with the angels. The bare bones convince us that nothing of this world belongs to us....
The Moves to Transcend Idolatry in Ancient Philosophy and Modern Idolatries
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Loudovikos
7 June 2017
The ancient Greeks came down into what became their territory at the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. They were an Indo-European tribe with a particular historical dynamism which would be stren...





