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It’s actually a comfort
Elder Cleopa Ilie
12 March 2017
Pain is sent from heaven for our salvation, to test us, for the forgiveness of our sins and for our spiritual progress, so long as we accept it gladly, as coming from the hand of God, as the Prophet... 
Love Keeps Evil Away
Fr. Cornel Todeasa
12 March 2017
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.”
Icon of Crucifixion (God's Love)
Pas...
What is love?
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
11 March 2017
Today they present love as a social relationship, as a social virtue. This is a mistake. Love isn’t a social virtue. Love is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and is achievable only insofar as we love Go...
How to explain death to a child
Maria Dimitriadou, Pedagogue
11 March 2017
According to Fr. Symeon Venetsanos ‘the spiritual or moral awakening of a child occurs gradually, depending on the degree of maturity, readiness ad receptiveness of the child concerned’. Some childr...
The Journey to God begins with the First Step
Abbot Tryphon
11 March 2017
Confession
The spiritual struggle that is required of us can not depend on having a spiritual father. Most Orthodox Christians do not have one, and the average parish priest is not equipped, either ...
Boldly
Saint Isaac the Syrian
10 March 2017
Trust your courage to God and don’t start any good work in two minds, because this leads to enfeeblement. Your efforts are no use and the task of your spiritual improvement is burdensome. Begin the ...
Children’s perception as a basic success factor in teaching
Christina Tsaka, Kindergarten teacher
10 March 2017
Assessment
It is useful that the children learn the value of the Saints and the things they offered to society and to the people through their miracles. This is the reason why this subject was chos...
Today’s world
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos †
9 March 2017
We, today’s Christians, should realize that we’re living in an idolatrous, atheist world and should be grateful that they haven’t started stoning us yet. Or crucifying us. That’s the bitter truth....
Witnessing History: The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Book Excerpt)
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
9 March 2017
The Orthodox Church will celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy tomorrow and commemorate the restoration of the holy icons as decreed by the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787.
In 2014, a Sy...
Fatherhood in the Church is fatherhood of ineffable humility
Metropolitan Amfilhije (Radović) of Montenegro and the Littoral
9 March 2017
How does the Church present this fatherhood to people and how does it teach them about it in such a way that it once again projects the sanctity of a life which has not been destroyed by egotism, an...
