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If we aren’t certain of our love, better to keep quiet
Fr. Filotheos Faros
8 April 2016
Once, in a skete, a brother fell into error and after a conference, the others sent word to Abba Moïsis, asking him to come. But he didn’t want to. So the oldest of the monks sent a message to him s...
Think that you’re lower
Saint Makarios the Egyptian
7 April 2016
Consider yourself lower and worse than everyone else and don't seek praise, honor or glory from other people....
Dostoevsky’s meeting with Starets Amvrosij Optinskij
Hieromonk Ambrose
7 April 2016
‘I believe that there is nothing lovelier, deeper, more sympathetic, more rational, more manly, and more perfect than the Saviour; I say to myself with jealous love that not only is there no one el...
The behavior of children
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
3 April 2016
Children's behavior is directly linked to the state of the parents. When children are hurt by the way the parents behave towards each other they lose the power and the will to make any progress. They'...
The seed of the evil one
Saint John of Kronstadt
2 April 2016
Parents and teachers, take great care not to allow your children to become capricious. When they grow up, they'll complain that you spoiled them when they were younger and encouraged their outlandish ...
Painter Ouresis (Urosh) Todorovich
2 April 2016
An artist, byzantinist and a theorist of art, Dr Uros T. Todorovic speaks to Pemptousia about his first steps in the world of art, about his family’s artistic roots, about his love of byzantine cultural heritage and of Greek civilisation in general....
Would you drink poison?
Saint Theophan the Recluse
1 April 2016
Allow yourself whatever's constructive for you, but not what causes spiritual damage, upset and turmoil. What rational person would drink from a glass which they knew had been poisoned?...
Idomeni, an Insufferable Trial of Civilization and Humanity
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1 April 2016
Eve of All Souls
Another visit by the Autonomous Intervention team from Neapoli, Thessaloniki, to the suffering people at Idomeni. And this was perhaps even more of a landmark. Saturday of All Souls ...
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware – Orthodoxy’s offering to Western society
1 April 2016
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia in his interview with Pemptousia talks about Orthodoxy's offering to Western society nowdays...
John Bazlinton, “Being Human: Fully Alive”
1 April 2016
Dr Christine Mangala Frost presents John Bazlinton's (+2008) personality. J. Bazlinton was a gifted artist, & one of the initial inspirers and a chief organizer of THE WAY...