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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...
Digital Technology and Cyberspace: a further test of the person (Videotaped Recording)
30 June 2016
Protopresbyter Vasileios Thermos, M.D., Ph.D., He studied at the Medical School of Athens University and after he graduated he studied at the Theological School of the same University. He specialized in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry which he still practices in Athens...
The Position of the Elder in Women’s Monasticism
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
30 June 2016
Orthodox women’s monasticism was founded almost at the same time as that of men. When Pachomios the Great formed the first men’s coenobium in Tabenissi, he was followed a few years later by his sister...
They don’t know what they’re doing
Elder Cleopa Ilie
30 June 2016
The mind of a person is like the rudder of a ship. Just as a ship without a rudder goes off course, the same is true of our mind. It’s closely connected to the heart and, when it’s disturbed, the whol...
The passion of desiring to be first (Mark 10, 32-45)
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
30 June 2016
‘Whoever wishes to be first among you, let him be the servant of all’.
The last time Christ went to Jerusalem was dramatic, not only for Him, but also for those who were following Him. ‘They were on ...
The Apostle Paul: Incorporeal, even though he had a Body – 1
Saint John Chrysostom
30 June 2016
More than all other people, it’s Paul who shows us what we are, how noble our nature is and what measure of virtue we’re able to achieve. And now he arises from the place he has arrived at and, in a...
Dissemination of the Word of God via the Internet
29 June 2016
Efraim, Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi...
Monk Efraim Lavriotis (1926-25 June,1999)
29 June 2016
Monk Efraim Lavriotis carrying the icon of the Mother of God the Dread Protection (photo. Monk Païsios Karyotis)
Emmanouïl Fotios Passalis, this kind, very simple, very humble man of God, was born i...
The Oikonomia/Abortion Collision
Valarie H. Protopapas
29 June 2016
Within the Church, oikonomia is supposed to be applied with utmost care and with an eye toward the perfection to which we are called as followers of Christ. It is also (properly) invoked with the in...