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Understanding Icons
Frederica Mathewes-Green
20 March 2016
The first thing we sense about an icon is its great seriousness. Compare an icon in your mind a great Western religious painting, one that moves you to deeper faith or even to tears. You’ll notice t... 
It’s of great importance
Elder - Thaddeus of Vitovnica
19 March 2016
It's enormously important that there should be someone in the family who really prays. Prayer draws down the Grace of God and all of the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have fro...
St Theodore Tyron’s miracle
19 March 2016
Saint Theodore the Tyron was from the area of city of Amasia in Pontus. He was a Roman soldier during Maximian’s great persecution (c. 303) and gave his life for Christ (c.306/307).
Saint Martyr...
It’s not their fault
Saint John of Kronstadt
18 March 2016
Don't make a display of your passion. Don't hurt other people by externalizing the badness you have within you. Confess your sorrow to God at having a soul full of wickedness and that your life is pur...
The presence of Orthodox monasticism in Finland
Basil Anagnostopoulos
18 March 2016
Monasticism in the Orthodox Church of Finland has stood firmly by the Church, and they faced dauntlessly together the long and oppressive foreign yoke and the stiff and fanatic religious proselytism...
At the mercy of their sins
Saint John Chrysostom
17 March 2016
The righteous are made sad by the just trials they undergo, but benefit from them, to the glory of God. The unrighteous, on the other hand, are at the mercy of their sins....
Science and Religion: From theories and dogmas to people
Vasileios Konstantoudis, PhD in Physics, Researcher in "Democritus" Research Center
17 March 2016
The commonest way of dealing with the relationship between science and religion today seems to be that of rivalry. Science and Religion are two different ways of approaching the truth about the world,...
Beneficial advice
16 March 2016
A brother once went to Abba Filika and took some laymen with him. He asked the abba to say something beneficial to them. But the elder remained silent. The brother continued to implore him for a long ...
Cavafy’s and Fr Moyses’ Ithacas
Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil
16 March 2016
Although Ithaca is an existing place, the overall description and, of course, Odysseus’ travel is a mythical one. Thus, the allegory of a fruitful travel links to the myth of Odysseus. On the other ...
Greedily take as much as you can
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
15 March 2016
Fill yourself greedily with the word of God. Fill yourself greedily with observing Christ's commandments. Fill yourself greedily with the food on the table which has been prepared before you by the Lo...
