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Raging within us Saint John of Kronstadt 27 September 2016 All the passions are fires of the soul, conflagrations raging within us. We have to put this fire out with the water of love, which is so strong it can extinguish any internal flames of evil and the o...
Saints, Bollandists, and the Weight of History – and a Commercial Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 27 September 2016 St. George           Since the Church started its earthly sojourn about two millenia ago, it has waded through a lot of history, and this historical journey has left its mark upon it, for good a...
The Eternal Banquet; The Importance of Frequent Communion Abbot Tryphon 27 September 2016 Eternity is an everlasting banquet (the Divine Liturgy) that takes place in the heavenly realm. Every time we participate in the Divine Liturgy we are transported into a place where there is neither t...
Observing thoughts and guarding the senses. On the feast of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 27 September 2016        One of the great spiritual figures of monasticism, St Sabbas, is honoured today. Yet he is not well known here on the Holy Mountain. This great guiding light is a great consolation to us. I...
Our Relationship with God: 2. The Patriarch Jacob Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou) 27 September 2016 In the continuation of this sacred history, we see that the relationships of men become increasingly more tragic. For example, the son of Adam, Cain, offered an abominable sacrifice to God which was...
“Watch then thyself” (Πρόσεχε σεαυτώ): Spiritual Practice and Digital Culture 26 September 2016 Hieromonk Maximos Constas, Senior Research Scholar at Holy Cross School of Theology Brookline Mass, formerly Associate Professor of Theology at the Harvard Divinity School...
Keep at it Elder Christodoulos Katounakiotis 26 September 2016 Don’t worry if your mind wonders sometimes during the Jesus prayer. You keep saying it, God will hear it and the demons will flee....
Apocalypse Now Fr. Stephen Freeman 26 September 2016 Few teachings of the Christian faith are as easily misunderstood and equally misapplied as the things pertaining to the “End of the World.” Christian history, both East and West, offers numerous exa...
On Orthodoxy and orthodoxies Fr. John Parker 26 September 2016 Adam Parker wrote two articles investigating the history of religious schism and asking the question, “should religion’s goal be a ‘universal church’ or is religious diversity a good thing?” Adam ...
Why are we called Christians Saint Cyril of Jerusalem 26 September 2016 1. Having been baptized into Christ, and put on Christ, you have been given the same form as the Son of God; for God, having foreordained us to adoption as His children, gave us the same features as t...
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