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Those who truly love God
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
14 January 2017
Who are those who truly love God, where does their love for Him come from and how is it shown? What are the works of our love for God as regards our neighbours? And that love is the culmination of the... 
What is the Kingdom of God?
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
14 January 2017
I should like to begin with a short reading from the book of Revelation, chapters 21 and 22: I heard a great voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with ...
It’s natural
Abbess Gavriïlia
13 January 2017
People who love don’t notice it. Any more than you notice that you’re breathing....
Face to Face
Fr. Stephen Freeman
13 January 2017
Nothing about the human body is as intimate as the face. We generally think of other aspects of our bodies when we say “intimate,” but it is our face that reveals the most about us. It is the face we ...
Deicide is the equivalent of Patricide
Metropolitan Amfilhije (Radović) of Montenegro and the Littoral
13 January 2017
1. According to the Biblical concept, ‘patricide’ is essentially the same as the sin of Adam and Eve. Their effort to become gods through the forbidden fruit and not through the alignment of their w...
The death of the body plays a part in preventing the prolongation of evil
Maria Dimitriadou, Pedagogue
13 January 2017
We were made with two natures: the material and the spiritual. With dust from the earth, God made our material body and, with His breath, He breathed the soul into that body. Body and soul are joine...
Which people are logical?
Saint Anthony the Great
12 January 2017
It’s a misnomer to call people logical. People who just read words in books by the ancient philosophers aren’t logical. People who really are logical have a rational soul and are able to distinguish...
The Holy Memorial Services – Part II
Ioannis Foundoulis Professor of the Theological School A. U. Th. †
12 January 2017
But already, in the Apostolic Constitutions (VIII, 41), there were special prayers and petitions by a deacon “for our brethren who have reposed in Christ” and which basically have the same content, an...
Cut off the passions before the soul becomes accustomed to them – 1
Saint Abba Dorotheos
12 January 2017
Abbas Dorotheos: That we should take care to cut off the passions quickly before the soul becomes accustomed to them.
Put your minds, brethren, to the way things are and see that you don’t neglect yo...
What will you answer?
Saint Dimitri of Rostov
11 January 2017
Our life is like a war, a market, a school, a long sea voyage. In battle, you can’t just take time out; in trade you can’t be idle; in school you can’t be inattentive; and there’s no room for carele...
