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It’s worth the suffering
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
10 January 2017
This is the victory of the Church. All of us will have our Cross, commensurate with the strength of each one of us, and in accordance with God’s will, but behind the Cross, is sweetness, power, Grac... 
The Secular Man and the Christian Man
Fr. Stephen Freeman
10 January 2017
Escher's Relativity
The Secular Man has been the great threat to the Christian faith over the past two or more centuries. Disguised as the person is only doing the “normal thing,” he lives in a godl...
It’s not terrifying
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
9 January 2017
The world’s a terrifying place for people who don’t know that God’s in charge and has the authority to preserve it for as long as He thinks fit. He can also return it to non-existence whenever He so...
The Holy Memorial Services – Part I
Ioannis Foundoulis Professor of the Theological School A. U. Th. †
9 January 2017
The subject of this paper is, “The Holy Memorial Services”, that is, the intercessions of the Church on behalf of our departed brothers and sisters. We shall attempt a review of the tradition regardin...
International Society “Friends of Mount Athos” – 2
Dr. Graham Speake
9 January 2017
"P": What are the society’s main activities?
Dr. G.S.: We have a regular programme of meetings. We always mark the start of the new year in traditional Greek style with a Vasilopitta Party. This is h...
How do we use Great Holy Water?
Protopresbyter Mihaïl Efthymiou
9 January 2017
Great Holy Water is recommended by spiritual guides in certain instances where the person confessing has fallen into a sin and doesn’t have a blessing to receive communion. In this case, his or her ...
Guide and Redeemer
Metropolitan Avgoustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina († 2010)
9 January 2017
‘Behold the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world (Jn. 1, 29)
Yesterday, my beloved friends, the Twelve Days of Christmas came to an end. They last from Christmas to Epiphany, with the exc...
Be honest with each other
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
8 January 2017
Let there be a climate of absolute confidence and sincerity between you . Don’t let anything come between you, because that will suffocate you later. Don’t let bad thoughts make their nest inside yo...
We forget
Saint John of Kronstadt
7 January 2017
What is it that separates us from God and our neighbour? Money and material enjoyment, that is, the clay, the dregs, decay. Because we don’t have living Christian faith or trust in God. We don’t kno...
International Society “Friends of Mount Athos” – 1
Dr. Graham Speake
7 January 2017
Today, we have the pleasure to host an interview with Dr Graham Speake, FSA, Honorary Secretary and founder of the Friends of Mount Athos. His Orthodox name is Gregory Palamas. He was baptized at Vato...
