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Educational reform – Is it for the person or the labour market?
6 August 2016
The Hagiorite Orthodox monasticism is not isolated from the world; it is not unsociable. On the contrary, one might say that the genuine monk is more sociable than the laity, since he directly commu... 
Superficial calm
Saint John of the Ladder
5 August 2016
Worms breed in rotten wood. In the same way, anger adheres to people with very meek external behavior and contaminated calm and tranquillity. People who expel it from within themselves find forgivenes...
“I can’t help thinking that Martin Luther made a great mistake in doing away with monasticism”
Oystein Silouan Lid
5 August 2016
During the stay we live in three-bed, four-bed and eight-bed rooms in different monasteries, and take part in the daily lives of the monks. The services often start at 3 o’clock in the morning, and ...
Professor David Frost on ‘by merit rais’d/ To that bad eminence’: Milton’s Satan
5 August 2016
The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies - Cambridge presents: Professor David Frost on 'by merit rais'd/ To that bad eminence’: Milton’s Satan. A lecture delivered on 15 July 2013 during the IOCS Summer School on "Angels: Heavenly and Fallen"...
Our Lady the Mother of God and the Paraclitic Canon – 2
5 August 2016
The Paraclitic Canon to the Mother of God
The day of the Dormition of the Mother of God is a high feast. In the life of the Church, the dismissal hymn and kontakion for the feast explain why: “In giv...
You’ll be raised
Saint Gregory the Theologian
4 August 2016
If you unite yourself to God with powerful passion, you’ll be raised on high and won’t fall. Nor will you fritter away your time. You’ll belong entirely to Christ until you actually see Him, your Brid...
What is a miracle?
Maria P. Siaka
4 August 2016
‘I know you to be a treasury of miracles and source of good things, John, curing the passions of sickness and foiling the actions of the demons; and I beseech you now to save me from the evils of corr...
Metropolitan Kallistos on ‘The Theology of Dreams, Angelic and Demonic’
4 August 2016
Lecture delivered on 16 July 2013 as part of the IOCS Summer School on 'Angels: Heavenly and Fallen'...
People as Liturgical Beings – Part 1
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
4 August 2016
We usually characterize people as rational and independent beings. These attributes are correct enough, but don’t convey human nature in its completeness.
Through the liturgical experience, we feel t...
The greatest attraction
Saint Cyprian of Carthage
3 August 2016
When you commit a serious sin and then repent, take up the trumpet of prayer again, but not to play triumphal marches. Arm yourself with humility, which is the strongest breastplate against sin and th...
