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An attempt at a niptic/philokalic approach to the Internet
31 May 2016
Protopresbyter Constantin Coman, Professor of the Theological School, University of Bucharest...
Scourge the enemy
Saint Theophan the Recluse
31 May 2016
When you turn to Christ, pay no attention to what’s going on inside you. Keep your attention focused on the Lord and beg Him for help. There’s no room for malicious thoughts in a mind focused on the L...
Christ as Word
Fr. John Meyendorff
31 May 2016
Since you have learned to hear, Slavic people,
Hear the Word, for it came from God,
The Word nourishing human souls,
The Word strengthening heart and mind....
(St Cyril and St Methodius, Prologu...
Decoding the signs of our times
30 May 2016
Sister Sara Halabi, the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation, Aleppo, Syria...
On Practicing the Jesus Prayer
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
30 May 2016
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner."
The correct practice of the Jesus Prayer proceeds naturally from correct notions about God, about the most holy name of the Lord Jesus, an...
What is the truth about abortion today?
Valarie H. Protopapas
30 May 2016
This treatise was designed to help Orthodox Christians — and especially clergy — cope with those who demand that oikonomia be invoked to allow them to use abortion as a solution to various life cris...
Hesychasm and Theology: A Contribution to the Dialogue concerning the Great and Holy Synod
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
30 May 2016
On the occasion of the convocation of the Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church, we are publishing a text by George Mantzaridis, Emeritus Professor of Theology at the Aristotle University of The...
We’d avert our eyes
Saint John of Kronstadt
30 May 2016
God sees what each of us has in our soul, what our heart is attached to for most of the course of our life. If the Lord had given us the ability to read the depths of the human heart, then we’d certai...
The exercise of Eucharistic love
Chrysostomos Stamoulis
29 May 2016
But what is the criterion for assessing such a presence or absence of Christ within a person’s being? How is this presence «measured», that is, how does it become visible, how does it become percept...
The Fall of Constantinople, Queen of Cities
29 May 2016
Today (May 29), the Orthodox Church remembers the Fall of Constantinople, the Queen of Cities, in 1453. Named after Saint Constantine the Great, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empir...





