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Recordings from the Christmas Vigil at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi 7 January 2017 As the ‘metropolis’ of feasts’, Christmas is celebrated at the monasteries on the Holy Mountain with a vigil, during the course of which the monks sing hymns of exceptional poetic and musical beauty...
A wild animal Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 6 January 2017 People who don’t contain their anger are like wild, untamed animals which can’t be controlled. No storm whipped up by the wind and crashing onto the rocks is as violent as the rage of a choleric per...
Humbleness is the key to keep the Grace Fr. Raphael Noica (of Essex) 6 January 2017 Fr. Raphael: Monasticism is like living something from the age that shall come, in which, as the Savior says: “They neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven” (M...
‘The Waters of the Jordan’, Leonidas Asteris, Archon Protopsaltis, of the Great Church of Christ 6 January 2017 An exceptionally fine rendition of the Doxastiko of the Praises for the feast of Theophany, ‘The Waters of the Jordan’, by Leonidas Asteris, Archon Protopsaltis of the holy, patriarchal church of Sa...
The Great Blessing of the Waters Protopresbyter Mihaïl Efthymiou 5 January 2017 What is the Blessing of the Waters, and what’s the difference between the Great and the Small? The Great as compared to the Small? The Blessing of the Waters belongs to the category of ‘sacramental ri...
No need for anything else Saint John Chrysostom 5 January 2017 Do you want to have good done to you? Do good to somebody else. Do you want to have mercy shown to you? Show mercy to your neighbor. Do you want to be praised? Praise somebody else. Do you want to b...
The Role of Saints in our Christian Lives Abbot Tryphon 5 January 2017 Growing up Lutheran I always believe the veneration of saints by Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians was a form of idolatry. They were idolaters because they "worshiped saints". This worship of th...
Saint Gregory Palama and the Education in God Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios 5 January 2017 Education is a widely discussed issue in our days. The problem is that we have very much distorted views on this important subject. We hear various things that are at least unorthodox. By this we do n...
New Year’s Message for 2017 from His Eminence Metropolitan Amvrosios of Korea Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea 5 January 2017 Crisis! Crisis of many natures—political, social, family, youth, environmental, economic! Crisis of institutions and values. Wars, refugees, famine, poverty, unemployment, terrorism, and the ongoing e...
Discourse on Mount Athos (Prologuue) Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 5 January 2017  PROLOGUE Silence for the monks is a rule of life. It protects them from uncontrollable and unrestrained talk as well as from impugnation and slander, which result in the death of the soul. It delive...
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