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Creation· the end of ages (part 1)
24 August 2016
Man has been trying to make sense of the creation ever since antiquity as it is manifested in the teachings of many religions and philosophies. Generally, we may say that ancient Greek philosophers ... 
Not small and unworthy
Saint Gregory the Theologian
23 August 2016
God longs to be longed for by people. He fills those who wish to drink. He benefits those who want to do good works. He gives much more pleasing things than others receive. The only thing is that we s...
Abortion — the Ultimate Denial of Christ
Valarie H. Protopapas
23 August 2016
Finally, to consider as an option for situations other than that of life and death the murder of a human being whose only fault is that he occupies the body of an unwilling fellow human bein...
True Peace is the Way of the Cross
Abbot Tryphon
23 August 2016
In an age that seems to be forever witnessing wars between nations, and civil wars within nations, peace seems to be something that is about as possible as the alchemy that would turn metal into g...
The inward mission of our church
Saint Justin Popovich
23 August 2016
Catechumen
It is very, very difficult indeed for infinite and eternal life to make its way into the human soul—so narrow—and even into the narrower human body.
Held behind bars, the inhabitants of ...
It kills off both
Saint John of Kronstadt
22 August 2016
Love brings ease and joy to the heart, whereas envy kills both the body and the soul. How can you not love, when you hear love being preached all around you, when the only enemy of the human race, the...
The guilty conscience as an existential problem
Ioannis Kornarakis, Emeritus Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Confession, University of Athens († 2013)
22 August 2016
The great Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung made a significant contribution to understanding the spiritual life by underlining the moral character of most of the personality’s repre...
How did man used to live in Paradise?
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
22 August 2016
Paradise was a divine place, a fitting abode for man, who has been created “in the image and likeness of God”.
He lived there in the bliss of the divine attributes, which were integrated into his v...
Orthodoxy: The hope of the people of Europe
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
22 August 2016
Our awareness of ourselves as Orthodox Christians does not permit us to overlook the fact that Orthodoxy and Western Christianity cannot share a single ‘Christian identity’. On the contrary, it compel...
