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The Memory of Four Contemporary Elders
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
3 December 2015
In the Orthodox Church, its greatest boast and most valuable treasure is its Saints. There’s no period in human history when there haven’t been saints. The saints verify in the flesh, in their faces, ... 
True fasting means loosing the bonds of injustice
2 December 2015
Let’s have a brief look at some of the features of true fasting.
Fasting isn’t an end, but rather a means for purification from the passions. This is why the Fathers liken it to a sword or a kni...
Priest-martyr Philoumenos († 29 November, 1979)
29 November 2015
Metropolitan Isikhios of Capitoliada, Patriarchate of Jerusalem, speaks for life and death of Priest-martyr Philoumenos († 29 November, 1979)...
Freedom’s one thing, autonomy’s another: God is the core of our existence
Konstantinos T. Tsourapas
27 November 2015
The role of the human race as a link between creation and God is clear. People are the means through which God reveals His mystery to the world. The redefinition of our attitude towards the environmen...
Meeting of the Metropolis Council of Toronto
25 November 2015
The Metropolis Council meeting was held at our Holy Metropolis on November 23rd, the first gathering with its new composition, under the Presidency of Metropolitan Sotirios. The meeting began with the...
Monk Anatolios Kavsokalyvitis (1862-1938)
22 November 2015
Monk Anatolios Kavsokalyvitis (1862-1938)
Monk Anatolios Kavsokalyvitis was born in 1862, in Pangrati, Kalavryta. He came to the Holy Mountain, the Bower of Our Lady, in 1890. In 1892, he was tonsur...
Papa-Stratis from Lesvos: the Priest of the Refugees
21 November 2015
by Penelope Sarrou and Iraklis Filios
‘And I want to tell you that we came into this world where we live in order to be useful’ (Papa-Stratis)
A short while ago, the well-known figure Papa-Stratis d...
Christ also stopped at Eidomeni
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20 November 2015
‘Christ stopped at Empoli’ was the name of a classic work of literature. Today, perhaps, He’s stopping in Syria, in Kos, in Lesvos, at the border between Croatia and Hungary. We went to one such stop,...
