Search Results for: ""
Multi-Faith Europe and Orthodoxy (Part II)
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
17 August 2016
B. ORTHODOXY IN THE NEW EUROPEAN CONTEXT
1. Relations between the Orthodox. Dogmatically, we Orthodox emphasize that we belong to the “one, holy catholic and apostolic Church”, that we are this Churc... 
Children and Obedience
17 August 2016
Obedience constructs and self-will destructs. A child has to learn to be obedient to its parents and to God. It’ll remember the words of its parents all its life and will always respect its elders, an...
They’ll be different from the rest
Saint Anthony the Great
16 August 2016
The time will come when people will behave as though they’ve lost their minds. And if they see somebody behaving reasonably, they’ll all gang up against that person and they’ll say: ‘You’re being absu...
The Misuse of Oikonomia in the Abortion Question
Valarie H. Protopapas
16 August 2016
Since we have determined that abortion cannot be sanctioned by oikonomia for reasons of rape, incest, "defective" fetus or "health" of the mother; and that the application of oikonomia is un...
Jesus Christ The Universal Person
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
16 August 2016
Christ, as the true and universal man, is the measure of all things for all people. He is the ultimate measure, universal and timeless, for the whole world. He is the true measure by which we can defi...
We’ll give an account
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
15 August 2016
If Moses was excluded from the promised land over a single word, how much more will our big, sharp tongue deprive us of the Kingdom of Heaven, since the Lord says we’ll have to account for every empty...
Is there spiritual life and sanctity today?
Archimandrite - Kyrillos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Essex
15 August 2016
My immediate answer to both parts of this question is a very affirmative ‘Yes’. God does not change. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and for ever. And the nature of human beings has no...
Those people are Christians
Saint John the Sinaite
14 August 2016
Those people are Christians who, as far as humanly possible, imitate Christ in word, deed, and thought.
...
Our Lady in White
Monk Kosmas Simonopetritis
14 August 2016
In the dependency of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, in Propouli on the island of Limnos, there’s a very beautiful and rare icon of Our Lady of the Harvest (1707). It’s the patronal icon and its...
