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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.
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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...
Psalm 50
Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou
14 August 2016
The only psalm that is prescribed to be recited in its entirety at every Divine Liturgy is (in the Orthodox Old Testament)1 Psalm 50 (Psalm 51 in the Hebrew text)2. During the Cherubic Hymn, just be...
Multi-Faith Europe and Orthodoxy (Part I)
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
14 August 2016
At the beginning of the 20th century many predictions were made that religion would soon die out in Europe. But at the beginning of the 21st century, in tandem with secularization and religious indiff...
Abba Dorotheos on Self-Censure
14 August 2016
At the end of the excerpt of Saint John Chrysostom’s homily on the Sunday of the Paralytic, we read: ‘Even now I can show you many who naturally hate having anything to do with women, and avoid ...
You won’t achieve a thing
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
13 August 2016
If you want to set somebody on the right path, to teach them and advise them, you first have to humble yourself and speak to them with great love. They'll accept your advice because they'll feel that...
Political Authority according to Saint John Chrysostom – 2
Paul, Metropolitan of Aleppo
13 August 2016
Following Paul and the Bible in general, Chrysostom says that a Christian can be subject to non-believing rulers. He recalls that, when Paul gave his support to obedience to rulers, he was himself l...
The prayer rope
Rod Dreher
13 August 2016
Rod Dreher
I had a prayer rope, in fact, one that had been given to me a few years earlier in New York by an Orthodox friend. I had been grateful for the gift, but had never prayed it. I prayed the ...
What governs us
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
12 August 2016
A soul which is governed by God should exhibit the following features: straightforwardness, meekness, truth, humility, goodness, righteousness and great devotion. It should also have tolerance, charit...
The art as a form of religious expression
12 August 2016
Interview with Dr. Michael Meyer-Blanck, Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at the the University of Bonn / Faculty of Protestant Theology...
