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Gluten-free Lenten Tapas James W. Lillie 27 March 2017 If you want to make a special ascetic effort for Lent, you could always eat what the Prodigal Son wanted to. When he was away being prodigal, I mean. I’m not suggesting you go out and slaughter a fatt...

A time to read and a time to embody (Part IΙ) Emma Cazabonne 26 March 2017 Not unlike Evagrius and other Fathers, John also uses the antirheticos genre, e.g. in 23.46. In 22.35, a monk and a demon are even portrayed in their struggle, both using passages of Scripture. I...

Saint John of the Ladder Archimandrite Georgios Alendas 26 March 2017 Great Lent is a period of repentance, during which our stony hearts must become, through God’s grace, softened in the flesh, and move from being callous to being sensitive, from cold and hard to warm ...

Means of therapy Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 26 March 2017 Church is a spiritual locus for us to find communion with God, and this is very, very important. This is why, if we want to be calm, if we want to be peaceful, if we want to find our inner harmony, ...

Only violence against our false self brings us freedom Metropolitan Amfilhije (Radović) of Montenegro and the Littoral 26 March 2017 All of this (see Coercion and violence are the basic characteristics of the patricidal society, also by Bishop Amfilohije) is inevitable, because necessity and violence beget only violence and ensla...

How should we describe heaven and hell to children? Maria Dimitriadou, Pedagogue 26 March 2017 The soul of a child should feel death as the threshold of life in heaven, a stepping-stone towards eternal life with Christ’, that is, paradise. The main role in the Orthodox spiritual development o...

A time to read and a time to embody (Part I) Emma Cazabonne 25 March 2017 A time to read and a time to embody: John’s creative use of Scripture in The Ladder of Divine Ascent According to Bishop Kallistos, “with the exception of the Bible and the service books, there is n...

What derangement, what weakness Saint John of Kronstadt 25 March 2017 What darkness, what delusion, what weakness and what a terrible, deathly power sin is. Is it other people’s fault that they’re different from us and so we hate them, or that they disagree with us or...

The Theology of Gender – 4. Woman in the New Creation. The Early Church Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara 25 March 2017 The destiny of humanity changed radically after Christ’s Incarnation, and a living model of human behavior was initiated by the second Adam, the perfect Man, who is Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, Christ’...

Love silence Saint Theophan the Recluse 24 March 2017 Cultivate the fear of God within you, as well as reverence for His indescribable majesty. Have a broken and contrite heart. Consider everyone superior to you. Love silence, isolation, and conversing...

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