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Hide and seek
Saint John Chrysostom
16 March 2017
The more you try to hide a sin behind another sin, the more you broadcast it. You can’t hide a sin behind another one. You get rid of it only through repentance and confession. When we want to hide ...
The Theology of Gender – 1. The Story of Creation
Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara
16 March 2017
The story of creation presents the basic principles of human life and behavior. It is the main reference for the Christian understanding of humankind’s existential questions. In the book of Genesis, t...
Original Christian Voices Against Euthanasia
David W T Brattston
16 March 2017
The Problem
According to its advocates, euthanasia is morally neutral or even a positive good within the framework of ethics, including Christian ethics. But is euthanasia really moral? It certainl...
Controlling anger
Abba Dorotheos
15 March 2017
If somebody curses you or saddens you, pray very hard for them, as the Fathers say, as if they were a great benefactor, and a doctor treating your love of pleasure. If you do this, your anger will b...
Fulfilment in monasticism
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
15 March 2017
The sheer enormity of holiness which the commemorated Saint has acquired throughout his righteous life has fascinated the whole world. His name offers a lot of consolation to the devout. Thi...
Sunday of Orthodoxy at Vatopaidi
15 March 2017
Highlights of the Divine Liturgy and Procession with the Holy Icons on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, 2017, at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi....
Nobody’s fault but mine, Lord
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
14 March 2017
It’s all very well for people to communicate over the Internet now, to send e-mails, to write messages to other people in mere seconds. But sometimes they’re unable to communicate with their spouse ...
ELDER PAÏSSIOS: an air of saintliness
Hieromonk Akakios of Athos
14 March 2017
FROM MY ACQUAINTANCESHIP WITH THE BLESSED ELDER PAÏSSIOS
‘Only saints can talk about the saints as they share common spiritual experiences and understand each other’, the blessed Elder Païssios once ...
It won’t be changed
Saint Basil the Great
13 March 2017
The soul that has firmly attached itself to the desire of the heavenly things and of its Maker, which is content to be adorned with celestial beauty, will never be altered, nor will it lose its good...
Private club?
Abbot Tryphon
13 March 2017
We must invite our friends and neighbors to "taste and see" the great treasure that is Orthodoxy, for it is our responsibility, as Christians, to reach out in kindness, and with a welcoming smile, whe...





