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Don’t accept them
Saint Maximos the Confessor
23 July 2016
Don’t accept bad ideas and you won’t be forced to sink into evil and its works. Because if you don’t sin in your mind then you won’t sin in deeds either. When you fall into various temptations, think ... 
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on ‘What does it mean to be a person?’ (Part One)
23 July 2016
This was the second of the annual series of Community Lecture Days on "Faith, Identity and Otherness"...
It’s life or death
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
22 July 2016
All those who are glorified in this world are lost with it. But those who are glorified by Christ are glorified through Him. The glory of the world is death, whereas the glory of Christ is life - life...
The ‘logical’ agenda of secularists
James W. Lillie
22 July 2016
This has led, in the West, at least, to humanists/secularists pushing their own agenda, which is a ‘logical’ (humanist) approach to social issues. A man and a woman love each other and want to marry...
More than 1,000 monks and nuns have sprung directly from the ‘root’ of Elder Iosif the Hesychast!
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
22 July 2016
It’s estimated that more than 1,000 monks hand nuns have sprung directly from the ‘root’ of Elder Iosif the Hesychast. Because he had foreknowledge of this, the Elder didn’t allow his disciples to c...
A terrible word
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
21 July 2016
Despair! A terrible word, a word that denotes catastrophe and calamity. From every kind of hardship. There’s nothing worse than despair. When people are in despair, they don’t go anywhere to be cured,...
Father Symeon : A servant of the holy mystery of Confession
Professor Emeritus of the Theological School, University of Athens - Georgios Ant. Galitis
21 July 2016
In confession, as in the whole of his everyday behaviour, Fr. Symeon was all love. Love overflowed from within him. He radiated love, not with words, nor with actions, but with his mere gaze, his sm...
Dialogues between Byzantines and Islam
21 July 2016
From Arethas, Bishop of Caesarea: ‘Letter to the Emir of Damascus’
Arethas, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (850-932) was born in Patras, in the Peloponnese and from 902 onwards was Bishop of Caesa...
Peace would reign
Elder - Thaddeus of Vitovnica
20 July 2016
Our starting point is always wrong. Instead of starting with ourselves, we always want to change other people first, and ourselves last of all. If we would all just start with ourselves there’d be pea...
