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Euthanasia: Turning your back on the opportunity for glorification
Vassiliki Katsaouni
16 November 2015
With euthanasia, people aren’t making use of the right for a dignified death. Instead of making the most of this extremely trying time in the life of the patient as an opportunity for glorification, t... 
Drawing Closer to the Mother of God during Advent
15 November 2015
Veronica Hughes examines the mysteries surrounding the life of the Mother of God to help us prepare for the Nativity of Christ. In this episode Veronica draws on the wisdom of St. Gregory Palamas and ...
Peace is always possible
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
14 November 2015
The most tragic violence today is the misuse of the term peace by people who do not really believe in it. Nevertheless, the human longing for a world wide peaceful coexistence remains permanent. Ev...
The Pectoral Ornament of Saint Makarios of Corinth
Anna Ballian
13 November 2015
The only work of the early post-Byzantine centuries to have been located in the sacristy of the Monastery of Vatopaidi is a small pectoral reliquary (enkolpion) of the early 16th century, representati...
The icon of Our Lady Vematarissa from Vatopaidi Monastery
Anna Ballian
12 November 2015
The ‘palladium’ of the Monastery of Vatopaidi is the famous icon of Our Lady Vematarissa or Ktitorissa, which was saved from the Saracen raid by being kept for 70 years in the well below the sanctuary...
Metropolitan Nikolaos: “Global Financial Crisis and Crisis of Faith”
11 November 2015
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogea and Lavreotiki talks about global financial crisis and crisis of faith...
Creation Care and Ecological Justice
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
9 November 2015
The Oxford Union, November 4, 2015
Distinguished members of the Oxford Union,
Esteemed administrators, faculty and friends of the University,
Dear students,
It is a unique pleasure and a great...
The Art of Carving of Mount Athos, 17th-early 18th Centuries
Anna Ballian
7 November 2015
The carving of wooden crosses is regarded as an art traditionally practiced by Athonite monks. Ioannis Komninos in 1698 and the Jesuit priest Braconnier in 1706 both refer to the carved wooden pectora...
The Unshakeable Faith of Elder Ephraim (from Katounakia, Mt. Athos)
6 November 2015
Fr Ephraim from Simonos Petras Monastery (Mt Athos, Greece) speaks for Elder Ephraim's (from Katounakia, Mt Athos) strong faith...
Liturgical mistranslations
Bishop Isaiah of Denver
5 November 2015
The more one compares the English translations with the original Greek regarding the Divine Liturgy, as well as the other services and prayers of the Church, the more frightened one becomes with the g...
