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The Reality of Conception
Valarie H. Protopapas
17 May 2016
When he mentions implantation, however, Fr. Harakas is now speaking of something which is already conceived and growing as it travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus. For a better understandin... 
«Without us, what do you suppose death would be?»
Chrysostomos Stamoulis
17 May 2016
A startling articulation of such a reality, scandalously challenging to the compromised intellect, can be found in the texts of the Fathers of the Church, whose restrained voice seems to be lost amo...
Become like Him.
Saint Theophan the Recluse
16 May 2016
Those who put on Christ take the strength from him to cleanse themselves and become like him in purity.
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The Unique Divine Liturgy at Easter in Dachau, in 1945
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
16 May 2016
Every Easter Divine Liturgy is, without doubt, unique. But the one celebrated in 194, in the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau stands out as special in the history of the human race. Just a few days a...
Monk Christodoulos, Katounakiotis (1894 – 23 April 1982)
16 May 2016
The late Elder Christodoulos Katounakiotis (right), with his exceptional disciple, Monk Kallinikos
He was born in Lamia in 1894 and his name then was Christos Kontonikolos. When he was young he was ...
We weren’t created to die, but to live forever.
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15 May 2016
Love as ‘acconmodation’ in the body of Christ, in the ‘land of the living’ is an eschatological experience, the experience of the last things. The last things aren’t something that’s limited to the ...
The Charismatic Presence of Elder Filotheos Zervakos (†8 May)
15 May 2016
On the solemn anniversary of the Dormition of the ever-remembered Elder Filotheos Zervakos, we publish an unimpeachable testimony to his charismatic presence.
Saturday, 6 February. A visit from Mr. P...
They’re at odds with each other
Saint Paisios the Athonite
15 May 2016
When people who are Christians in name only ask us to solve their differences (when they're at loggerheads) we should agree, but as long as they also accept a solution from the Gospel, because any oth...
There’s no ‘spiritual life’, only life in Christ and in the Church.
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos
14 May 2016
The Church is Christ’s way of life. But we think of the Church as the Patriarch, the Archbishop, the Bishop and each priest. And at the same time we think of ourselves as being outside the Church, wit...
The Recently-Revealed New Martyr, Saint Efraim
Hieromonk Makarios Simonopetrites
14 May 2016
We knew nothing about this New Martyr Saint until January 3 1950, when he revealed the location of his burial, at the ancient Monastery of the Annunciation, in Pendelis, in Nea Makri, Attica. Since 19...
