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Archbishop Demetrios: Holy and Great Synod “Unity and not a tedious uniformity” 2 July 2016 Archbishop of America Demetrios talks to Pemptousia and OCN about the very importance of the Holy and Great Synod...
Archdeacon John Chryssavgis: The reception of the Holy and Great Council from the People of God 2 July 2016 Rev. Dr Fr John Chryssavgis, Director of Ecumenical Patriarchate's Press Office for the Holy and Great Council, is speaking exclusively to Pemptousia and OCN about the reception of the Holy and Great Council from the People of God as the most important factor in order to be intergrated the fruits of the Council in the life of the Church....
The medicine against the passion for primacy Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia 2 July 2016 Christ applied the balm of humility to the wound of ambition, the desire for pre-eminence. If the ‘messenger of great counsel’, that is Christ, was so humbled, then we, too, should be prepared to f...
Set a watch 2 July 2016 Guard your mouth against superfluous, acrimonious and gratuitous words. Practice the Jesus prayer and self-restraint and the Lord will surround you with the priceless gift of His love. "Book of the...
The revival of Athonite’s and women’s monasticism in the 20th century Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery 2 July 2016 So from the middle of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th, monasticism in Greece, both men’s and women’s suffered a sharp decline. Even the Holy Mountain itself was threatened by a lack of...
The Apostle Paul: Incorporeal, even though he had a Body – 2 Saint John Chrysostom 2 July 2016 Apostle Paul, Byzantine enamel, 12th Century, Victoria and Albert Museum, London How can you compare him to anyone else, given that he suffered almost every day on behalf of all the inhabitants of t...
Ethical and spiritual issues related to the use of pseudonyms in Orthodox Internet forums 1 July 2016 Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Larchet is one of the foremost Orthodox theologians and patristics scholars writing today....
Inside the Holy and Great Council Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist 1 July 2016 There continues to be much said and written about the historic Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church. The discourse is often critical and infiltrated by individuals who hold extreme – some say...
From the Teaching of Elder Efraim Katounakiotis Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis 1 July 2016 A dialogue between a disciple and his elder (Elder Efraim Katounakiotis): ‘Elder, I say the prayer, “Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me”, but I don’t understand anything’. ‘You might not, but the de...
The presence of Christ at the wedding in Cana Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. 1 July 2016 The theological approaches to the excerpt are very interesting, but what should attract our attention is the link between the reading and the wedding service. On the basis of what has been said so f...
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