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The three enemies Elder Cleopa Ilie 28 May 2017 There are three enemies which war against us and bring us temptations until the day we die: the devil, the pleasures of the world and the body. These three enemies fight against us with every kind o...
Klaus Kenneth talks about Holy Mountain and Elder Sophrony 28 May 2017 Klaus Kenneth, author and musician, in his interview in Pemptousia talks about his acquaintance with the Holy Mountain and Elder Sophrony of Essex (1896-1993)...
Missionary Preaching in the First Christian Centuries Professor Dimitra Koukoura, School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 28 May 2017 2. Preaching in the first Christian centuries We have very little information regarding preaching in the first two centuries. We don’t know how preaching developed with the Gentiles as its audience...
Knowledge is a stairway Saint Isaac the Syrian 27 May 2017 Faith is a child-like concept in a simple heart. Knowledge examines and discusses whether something is true. Knowledge preserves the laws of nature and is followed by fear, whereas faith is followed...
Ecclesiastical Nostalgia Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 27 May 2017 Bishop Pankraty of Troitsa with Metropolitan Jonah If one is the type that is easily discouraged, one can find today much that is discouraging—secularism is making inroads, even in the Orthodox Chur...
It’s of little importance Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff 26 May 2017 People labour and struggle to acquire knowledge which is of only little importance and is applicable for only a limited period of time. This is knowledge which contributes to meeting the needs, comf...
If the Second Coming of Our Lord Should Be Soon Bishop Isaiah of Denver 26 May 2017 For approximately 2,000 years, the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ has continued uninterruptedly in the world according to His promise. If He should return today, would He recognize His Bride, the C...
The benevolent will of God Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 25 May 2017 The benevolent will of God is not merely that each of us should be saved, but that we should enter into the perfection of knowledge, that is deification, which is the absolute will of God, for which...
The Ravens of Farne Jane G. Meyer 25 May 2017 The Ravens of Farne: A Tale of Saint Cuthbert by Donna Farley published by Conciliar Press ISBN: 978-0-9822770-5-8 Softcover, 32 pages, $14.95 Two years before this story about the ravens of Fa...
Saint Anthimos Arethiotis Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians 25 May 2017 ‘Whoever observes the whole of the law, but errs in one thing, is guilty of everything’ (Jas. 2, 10). And the damage is unimaginable! You lose eternity, that is, everything. This is what happened to t...
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