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Deacon Stephen, the Protomartyr Saint Nikodimos the Athonite 27 December 2016 Once, when a discussion was taking place between Jewish Sadducees, Pharisees and Hellenists on the subject of Our Lord Jesus Christ, some saying He was a prophet, others that He was deluded, and yet o...
Waiting for rain Saint Amfilokhios Makris 26 December 2016 We hear about wars, earthquakes, catastrophes, tempests, but let’s just wait and the rain will come…...
Words, Words, Words… 26 December 2016 Too often we place our hopes in words and human thinking.  But, can human thought or words ever gain for us what we seek? St Gregory Palamas says, If someone attempts to touch the stars with his h...
What’s missing Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 25 December 2016 One reason why people today suffer and have weak nervous systems is that they lack the power from above which the Church gives. And if you remember, when Christ ascended into heaven, where were the di...
The mystery of man’s heart Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou) 25 December 2016 Archim. Zacharias Zacharou All the ordinances of the undefiled Church are offered to the world for the sole purpose of dis­covering the ‘deep heart’, the centre of man’s hypo­s­tasis. According to t...
God in Small Things Melinda Johnson 25 December 2016 Cemetery One day this winter, I saw a perfect stranger lose his glove. He walked quickly across a busy intersection where I was waiting in my car for the red light to turn green. As he neared the si...
“Fire in a bush”: His Word becomes ours, and our word becomes His Metropolitan Silouan of Buenos Aires and all Argentina 25 December 2016 “The word is near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart” (Rm 10:8; Dt 30:14) What strikes us most at Christmas is how our Creator eliminated the distance between himself and us, His creatures. H...
Nothing’s ours Saint Gregory the Theologian 24 December 2016 Bare bones convince those who gaze upon them that nothing earthly is ours....
Abbot Elisaios: “Mt Athos, Yesterday and Today” 24 December 2016 Elder Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mt Athos, Greece, speaks on the tradition and the present of Holy Mountain...
A Tree Full of Monkeys Fr. John Garvey 24 December 2016 Moses taking of fhis sandals In the earliest years of Christian teaching, dogma was proclaimed only when a denial of something (Jesus’ humanity or his divinity, for example) made it necessary. The a...
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