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Jonathan Jackson: “I’m just a sinner stumbling towards the embrace of Christ”
4 March 2016
Your christian faith features in a lot of your songs' lyrics. Do you see yourself as an ambassador of christianity in the art world? For what reasons did you convert to orthodox christianity in 2... 
The great enemy
Saint Nektarios of Optina
3 March 2016
Condemnation is the great enemy of love. As soon as the urge to criticize someone comes to you, turn to the Lord immediately and say with vigilance: 'Indeed, Lord and King, grant me to see my own erro...
Symbolisms in Cavafy’s ‘Ithaca’
Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil
3 March 2016
If a person is characterized by lofty thoughts, then he has nothing to fear. There are no Laestrygonians, Cyclopes or Poseidon. This means that there are no impenetrable problems in anyone’s route t...
The true path
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
2 March 2016
Punishment of sinners occurs for important and creative educational reasons, two of which are obvious to us. First of all, through punishment, God corrects them and brings them to the true path of s...
See the difference
Saint John of Kronstadt
1 March 2016
When you have pleasant thoughts in your soul, you feel happy and calm. When there's peace and joy in your heart, then the spirit of good, the Holy Spirit is within you. When you're full of bad thought...
Jonathan Jackson: Why I chose to cooperate with “Pemptousia”
1 March 2016
Jonathan Jackson + Enation –questions for Avopolis (Greece) by Mihalis Tsantilas
Although best known as an actor (starring in the TV series Nashville), his heart belongs to music; as well in Greece, ...
He’ll bring them low
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
29 February 2016
God allows proud people to be humbled and brought low because they think that their power is assured for ever....
Abba Cassian, the Great Ascetic of the West
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
29 February 2016
Saint John Cassian the Roman
By and large, Saint Cassian has been relatively unknown to most of the members of the Orthodox Church, even though he is an important Patristic figure. This is ...
When does God grant it?
Saint Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
28 February 2016
1. Prayer is grace. God grants it when there is zeal and humility (Elder Amfilohios Makris)
2. Don't let the devil fool you into thinking that God's love and mercy will save us. God saves those who s...
