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They’re people
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
9 February 2017
Priests are often accused of various things. But priests are still people. One person might make a mistake, but that doesn’t mean that everybody else is to blame. So, a priest might err, but that do...
How to restore current account imbalances in a symmetric way
9 February 2017
By: Charles Goodhart and Dimitrios Tsomocos
The sovereign debt crisis in Southern Europe is a reminder that increasing indebtedness can become unsustainable, whether that indebtedness accrues to th...
How we should deal with difficult children
Saint Paisios the Athonite
9 February 2017
(A letter written by Elder Païsios to a family of firm believers who were socially and spiritually aware and in despair over the behaviour of their daughter)
My dear brother, ‘Rejoice in the Lord’.
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Holy Communion – 2
9 February 2017
We don’t take Holy Communion just because we’re in church and something’s moved us to do so, or because others are, or because we’ve become used to doing so. We have to be prepared. First of all, we...
Saint Photius: The Miracle and the Primacy of Truth
Stylianos G. Papadopoulos
8 February 2017
The Miracle of Truth
Saint Photius was the chosen vessel of God in his times. He was, in other words, the outstanding, genuine bearer of Tradition and for that reason was the most famous and t...
If you don’t ask
Elder Ieronymos, Aegina
8 February 2017
What will you give if you haven’t got and how will you have anything unless you ask it of God? Work hard at prayer and study and you’ll be strengthened....
Testimony from Mount Athos, On temptations
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
8 February 2017
The whole combat and struggle which the recruited members of the Church have to fight against has only one meaning and one purpose: to win over the organised evil, which is none other than the denial ...
The anthropological-ontological basis of the condemnation of wealth in the Gospel
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
8 February 2017
Inevitably, human weakness sometimes led to irregularities, such as an accumulation of wealth for personal benefit, client-type relations with those in power at any time, maladministration and much ...
You have the altar with you
Saint John Chrysostom
7 February 2017
If we’re watchful, the Grace of the Holy Spirit will make us temples of the Holy Spirit, the result being that, wherever we are, we have this facility: you always have the sacrificial table with you...
Early Challenges to Capital Punishment
David W T Brattston
7 February 2017
The earliest church prohibited Christians from participating in capital punishment, as is evident from the following pronouncements by Christian writers before the Decian Persecution of A.D. 249-251. ...





