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New Hieromartyr George of Neapolis (Asia Minor, +1797)
3 November 2016
Saint George, the new martyr of Christ, lived in the city of Neapolis of Cappadocia (now Nev-Shekir in Turkey) in the eighteenth century. He was a priest at the Church of the Dormition of the Theotoko...
They bring about death
Saint Basil the Great
3 November 2016
Anger brings hostility, hostility begets insults, insults cause ructions, ructions end in injuries and, often enough, the outcome’s death....
High-risk online behaviors
3 November 2016
Emmanuel Sfakianakis, Major General, Head of the Department of Electronic Crime, Greek Police...
Let’s be honest
Saint Justin Popovich
2 November 2016
Our struggle is against the enemies of our eternity and our immortality These are: our sins, our passions our desires, and the wicked spirits. Every sin steals a little something from our eternity and...
The Liturgy of the Catechumens
2 November 2016
The first part of the Divine Liturgy is called the Liturgy of the Catechumens. In early Christian times, when Christians were baptized at an older age, there were catechumens, that is people who had n...
Science and its limitations
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
1 November 2016
There are phenomena which science will never be able to explain, because it doesn’t use the right methods....
Dr Marcus Plested on St Gregory Palamas
1 November 2016
The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, presents Dr Marcus Plested on 'St Gregory Palamas’. Lecture delivered for the IOCS Community Lecture Day, 18 May 2013....
Archbishop Anastasios of Albania talks about peace in the Middle East
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
1 November 2016
Conscious acceptance of religious and cultural pluralism and peaceful co-existence between different communities can come about from two opposing starting-points.* Either from indifference to religiou...
The unhappiest
Saint John of Kronstadt
31 October 2016
The more difficult, bad and sly people are, the more unhappy they feel. The weaker their faith, the more lacking they are in love, then the more helpless and useless they feel. Those who don’t believe...
The importance of children in Orthodox Tradition
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
31 October 2016
In the Old Testament, children are considered to be a blessing from God and are called ‘the crown of the aged’ . Sons are called ‘young olive plants around the table’ of their fathers. In the New Te...





