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Like the robber
† Elder Filotheos Zervakos
20 May 2016
Through repentance we receive a second baptism and are cleansed of the sins we've committed after baptism. When we repent, when we acknowledge our iniquities and decide not to commit any more sins, to... 
The Holy and Great Council: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
19 May 2016
CHRIST IS RISEN!
With the journey to Pascha having reached its ultimate destination at the glorious Resurrection of the Lord, the Orthodox Church has now embarked on the Pentecostarion period.
Pen...
The Great Medicine
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
19 May 2016
When you don’t live with Christ, you live in melancholy, in sorrow, in anxiety and in worry. You don’t live properly. Then all sorts of abnormalities appear, even in our organism. The body’s affected,...
God doesn’t always give us what we want
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
19 May 2016
When God doesn't give us something we keep asking for, He has His reasons. God also has His 'secrets'. Let's not go chasing after what we want but leave it to the will of God.
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Looking sin in the eye
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos
18 May 2016
In former times, a person’s relationship with the Church declared that the Church is life and its way is also the way of life. This is why, when people sinned, what did the spiritual guide give them a...
What does it mean to belong to the Church?
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †
18 May 2016
If people believe in Christ, read the Gospel, but don’t want to belong to the Church, aren’t they still good Christians?
No! Being Christian doesn’t mean that we believe some things theoreti...
The Unseen Onslaught on our Health
Konstantinos Kalakhanis, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Athens
18 May 2016
This paper deals with the issue of our exposure to environmental pollution, in particular involuntary exposure, that is against our will. The issue is serious, since it affects not only the elderly bu...
They’re blown away
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
18 May 2016
Pride is a wide-open window out of which all the virtues and good works are blown. Nothing makes us so empty towards people and so unworthy before God as pride.
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Resurrection and Agape Vespers in Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos
17 May 2016
On the Holy Mountain, Agape Vespers takes place in the morning hours of Easter Sunday and is celebrated in a festal manner. The most important feature is that the Gospel is read in many foreign languages. In this way, the Church demonstrates the universal nature of the event of the Resurrection. After the end of Vespers, refreshments are served in the Guest Quarters of the Monastery to all the guests and the abbot, Elder Efraim gives an address on the Resurrection, which Pemptousia is pleased to be able to present, in translation, to the visitors to our web-site....
The parents are often to blame
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
17 May 2016
Very often it's the parents, particularly the mother, who reprimand children for misbehavior and shout at them quite unfairly. Then they're wounded. Even if you don't chastise them visibly but you fee...
