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Irony and Belief
Fr. Stephen Freeman
22 April 2017
Irony is probably too much to ask of youth. If I can remember myself in my college years, the most I could muster was sarcasm. Irony required more insight.
There is a deep need for the appreciation o...
As much as necessary
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
21 April 2017
Let’s buy righteousness- through which we become familiar with God- with devotion, and let’s prefer virtue over wickedness and not open the door of our soul to the devil. And let’s give the body as ...
The Theology of Gender – 11. St. Basil’s canons on the issue of divorce and remarriage
Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara
21 April 2017
The whole series can be read here: The Theology of Gender
St. Basil’s canons on the issue of divorce and remarriage seem at first sight to treat man and woman differently, making it difficult f...
How does Christ’s Resurrection take place within us?
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
21 April 2017
Brethren and Fathers, Easter is now here, the festive day that brings us joy and gladness, the day of Christ’s Resurrection, which comes round once a year, or, to put it better, occurs daily and perpe...
Father Gavrilo Vučković, the ‘Elder of Facebook’, has died
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20 April 2017
On the afternoon of Great Wednesday, a great missionary figure of our time, Archimandrite Gavrilo Vučković, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Lepavina, in Croatia, rendered his soul to the Lord, at the a...
It’s terrible
Saint John Chrysostom
20 April 2017
Ignorance is really terrible and is the cause of much of the evil among us....
‘Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing’ (Luke 23, 24)
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
20 April 2017
Jesus again sets the Law of the Old Testament in its true interpretational framework and at the same time urges us to emerge from the shadow of the Law into the Light of the Grace of God, which is l...
With discrimination and prayer
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
19 April 2017
I say that fasting is of benefit to both soul and body. You have to keep the fasts, insofar as you can, with the permission of the doctor and the instructions of your spiritual guide. Everything sho...
New Creation in Christ: How Jesus changed us and our marriages
Fr. Josiah Trenham
19 April 2017
“If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold new things have come.” We come to the Holy Gospel at last and to the Christian way of life! The fullness of ti...
Nobody can
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
18 April 2017
Repentance is never-ending. By the grace of God we can perfect all the virtues. But no-one can perfect repentance, because we need it to our last breath, since we sin ‘in the blink of an eye’. So re...





