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The right way
Saint Theophan the Recluse
11 May 2016
People who preserve the experience of painful contrition before the Lord in all its potency, an experience which comes from the recognition of the dangers and difficulties of the spiritual life, these...
‘No forgetting’: A Pemptousia Event for the abducted Metropolitan of Aleppo
10 May 2016
PRESS RELEASE
Athens, Τuesday, 10 May 2016
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016, at 18:00, at the Military Museum in Athens, the web magazine Pemptousia and the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Mona...
The Misguided Notions Harboured by Christ’s Contemporaries regarding His Person
Athanasios Moustakis
10 May 2016
The person of Christ has been subject to a great many misconceptions, from the time He came to earth until today. Many people altered or distorted the purpose of His presence among us even as early as...
Our purpose
Tadej Vitovnički
10 May 2016
The strong faith of the human heart demands prayer and, at the same time, produces it, and a life of prayer over many years produces love. The aim of our life is nothing other than the purification of...
Mother’s Day and the Church
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
9 May 2016
Mother’s Day today, and all over the world children take the opportunity to remember and honour their mother. Yet there are also those who question the whole commercialization of the business of the a...
Terrible cruelty
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
9 May 2016
People who reject repentance are showing terrible cruelty towards themselves. Dreadful dislike and hatred of themselves, if they disregard repentance. People who are cruel to themselves can't help but...
Hierarchy in the Divine Names : “Dionysius the Areopagite”
Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil
9 May 2016
The Dionysian corpus dates to the turn of the fifth and sixth centuries and it comprises of the following four works: the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, the Celestial Hierarchy, the Divine Names and the My...
The Resurrection of Christ is the Quintessence of the Divine Revelation
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
9 May 2016
The Resurrection is forgotten in this day and age. Even the immortality of the soul is ignored. It’s typical that scientists who concern themselves with the human soul don’t usually treat it as an ont...
What’s not there starts to exist
Saint Diadokhos of Fotiki
8 May 2016
Evil has no natural existence and no-one is evil by nature. Because God did not make anything evil. If people desire evil, then what's not actually there is called into existence, because that's what ...
Holy Memorial Service in a Nazi Concentration Camp
7 May 2016
The Holy Metropolis of Germany held a Church service at the Nazi Concentration Camp in the Bavarian town of Hersbruck
It is well known that, at the Nazi Concentration Camp at the town of Hersbruck, n...