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You harvest thorns
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
26 March 2016
If you sow uncultivated land, you'll just waste your seeds, and, instead of wheat, you'll harvest thorns. We, too, if we sow prayer in our soul while our flesh is fat, we'll harvest sin instead of goo...
Constantinople’s Walls: The Alive Memory
Giorgos Kseinos, Doctor - Novelist
26 March 2016
ΤHE WALLS
The Walls of the City are the very history of Byzantium. They are the strategic choice that ensured the survival of the Empire for so many years, arming it against “all ...
Burnished pearls
Saint Arsenie Boca
25 March 2016
The tears of gratitude shed by the poor for your acts of charity towards them will be burnished pearls for you in the life beyond the grave....
The most just and the most unjust
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
24 March 2016
Envy is the passion of a malicious soul that goes into meltdown with jealousy when it sees its neighbor doing well. It's an impassioned critic of anything good that anyone else enjoys. It's the root o...
On Fr Moyses’ poem ‘Athos Ithaca’
Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil
24 March 2016
Another basic common element between Cavafy’s ‘Ithaca’ and Fr Moyses ‘Athos Ithaca’ is that both allude allegorically to a spiritual travel. As we have seen, Cavafy asserts that the importance of th...
Not as much as he wants
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
23 March 2016
In accordance with His plan, God permits each of us to be afflicted with various sorrows, so that it becomes clear which of us loves Him. And the evil one also tempts and torments our soul, not as muc...
The Holy and Great Orthodox Council: From St. Constantine to Crete
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
23 March 2016
The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church to be held in Crete during Pentecost has prompted a great deal of discussion. The affirmation at the January Synaxis of Primates in Chambésy to procee...
Give and take
Saint Paisios the Athonite
22 March 2016
If you give all your love to God, you'll receive all of His in return, to pass on to other people....
Theology and Science: A Shift towards the Human Person
Vasileios Konstantoudis, PhD in Physics, Researcher in "Democritus" Research Center
22 March 2016
In science, in the past, the necessity for this movement was indicated in three different ways which might prove useful in an anthropocentric shift in the dialogue between Science and Theology:
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The same as doctors do
Saint John Chrysostom
21 March 2016
When your brothers fall into sin, you shouldn't ignore them or look down on them. Instead, you should shield them before they sin, and then, if they do, take care of them. This is what doctors do. The...