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Their hearts are full of jealousy Saint John Chrysostom 21 February 2016 Hypocrites want to be called saints and to be venerated by everyone as being pious. You see their outward appearance and you think that they're doing everything according to God's will, but their hear...
Cavafy’s techniques and their adoption by Fr Moyses the Athonite Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil 21 February 2016 In contrast, Cavafy was among the first poets who wrote openly about homoerotic love. After 1919, he wrote poems in which a first-person speaker speaks about a male beloved. The majority of Cavafy’s...
The best cleansing agent 19 February 2016 All the impurities of sin that have piled up in the heart are cleansed by the tears of repentance...
Athonite Monasticism at Ottomans’ Era Kriton Chrysochoidis 19 February 2016 Cooperation with the Ottoman authorities was essential to preserve the autonomy of the Athonite community and the landed property of the monasteries. In comparison with their treatment of the conqu...
Fr Moses the Athonite as Poet and Author Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil 18 February 2016 He has published four poetic collections: Ηπειρωτική Ηλιοφάνεια (Mainland Sunshine), Αγιορείτικες Πέτρες (The Stones of Mount Athos), Αθωνικά Ποιήματα (Athonite Poems) and Αθωνικό Ψαλτήρι (Athonite ...
Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament? – 9 Fr. James Bernstein 17 February 2016 A TIME TO DECIDE At this point in my studies, I felt I had to make a decision. If the Church was not just a tangent or a sidelight to the Scripture, but rather an active participant in its developm...
The establishment of the ecumenical character of Athonite monasticism Kriton Chrysochoidis 16 February 2016 The Typikon of Tsimiskis was supplemented and modified by the Typikon of 1045, which was issued during the reign of Constantine Monomachos to deal with new developments. A third, almost completely n...
Influences from Cavafy in Fr Moyses’ Poetry – Introduction Iakovos Menelaou, MTh & MPhil 15 February 2016 This paper deals with Fr Moyses’ poetry. It focuses on his third poetic collection, Αθωνικά Ποιήματα (Athonite Poems), and intends to demonstrate the influences in this poetic collection of the widely...
Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament? – 8 Fr. James Bernstein 14 February 2016 THE WORD OF GOD IN ORAL TRADITION The Apostle Paul exhorts us, “Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle” (2 Thessalonians 2:15)...
A historical outline of the Athonite Monasticism – Hermits and St Athanasios Kriton Chrysochoidis 13 February 2016 The ideological and political orientation of the Byzantine empire at its peak, after the second half of the 10th century, created a favourable climate for the growth of Athonite monasticism. This cl...
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