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Life in death Melinda Johnson 5 May 2017 USS John C Stennis next to USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor There were two deaths in my world this week, one a beautiful elderly man who attended my church, the other a beautiful young woman who was the fr...
Encomium to the Holy Martyr Pelagia – 2 Saint John Chrysostom 5 May 2017 Just think what a great thing it would have been for the judge to be sitting on his bench, the executioners at the ready, the torture chambers prepared, the crowd gathered, the soldiers waiting and al...
The desire for the absolute Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 4 May 2017 Really free people are true images of God, since they’re a moral image of Him. Their will is identical with that of God, which is written in their heart as the moral law and placed there as a desire...
The God of the New Testament in the Old Testament (part 5) Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou 4 May 2017 Daniel and Nebouchodonosor “Then Nebouchodonosor was filled with anger, and the appearance of his face was distorted against Sedrach, Misah and Abdenago. And he said that the furnace should be stoke...
Encomium to the Holy Martyr Pelagia – 1 Saint John Chrysostom 4 May 2017 Blessed be our God: because women, too, now mock death, and maidens laugh at it, as do virgins, and, indeed, very young girls who have not known marriage dance on the barbs of Hell without suffering i...
The deep problem Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 3 May 2017 The great problem, the deep problem is the spiritual one. You see on the Internet, where everybody surfs and, unfortunately, people today spend so much time, so many hours surfing. And we see that t...
Reclaiming the arts Deacon James Bryant 3 May 2017 All-Merciful Saviour Monastery - Vashon Island, Washington “There is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting thereto.” William James 0 Ever since entering architecture...
The Theology of Gender – 15. The social dimension of matrimony in Byzantium Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara 3 May 2017 The whole series can be read here: The Theology of Gender Although Christian marriage places spirituality at its center, the social dimension of matrimony was kept in the Byzantine era and Chri...
‘I do not seek my own will, but that of the father who sent me’ Metropolitan Amfilhije (Radović) of Montenegro and the Littoral 3 May 2017 The relationship is expressed in Christ’s words: ‘I do not seek my own will…’ (Jn. 5, 30). Herein also lies, in actual fact, the meaning behind why we follow the Holy Fathers: it is precisely the hu...
Do not touch Me (Jn. 20, 17) Archimandrite Antonios Romaios 2 May 2017 Given the time and place where Christ spoke these words to her, Saint Mary Magdalene might be viewed as a symbol of those ‘Church’ people who, on a spiritual level, have enjoyed many heart-warming a...
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