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Elder Elisaios: “1050 years of Holy Mountain”
28 October 2015
Elder Elisaios, Abbot of Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mt Athos-Greece, speaks for 1050 years anniversary of Mt Athos' blessed place. Speech was given at Parents School, in the city of Katerini, Macedonia, Greece...
The Church without Saints isn’t the Church – 3
Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis of the Ecumenical Throne
27 October 2015
Archimandrite Hrysostomos Papadakis
I would like to express my warmest thanks to Archimandrite Ieronymos Nikolopoulos, Chief Secretary to the Holy Synod and Parish Priest of this church, for his kin...
The Church without Saints isn’t the Church – 2
Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis of the Ecumenical Throne
25 October 2015
Archimandrite Hrysostomos Papadakis
I would like to express my warmest thanks to Archimandrite Ieronymos Nikolopoulos, Chief Secretary to the Holy Synod and Parish Priest of this church, for his kin...
A Church of All: Disabilities and healing
24 October 2015
33. However, the Scriptures speak not only of the God who identifies Himself with human affliction, but also the One who exercised a ministry of healing and wholeness. How does this relate to the cont...
Abbot Elisaios: “Orthodox Church in Modern Society”
23 October 2015
Elder Elisaios, Abbot of Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mt Athos-Greece, speaks for modern issues of Orthodox Church: Mt Athos, Ecumenical Patriarchate, Mission, Political Authority, and Monastery Property in Economic Crisis...
The Challenge of Liturgical Translations
Issac Melton
22 October 2015
The following summarizes and expands commentary on the crucial question of liturgical language, which has appeared in DOXA Magazine in a number of issues.
Liturgical language is an important issue fo...
A Church of All: Persons with disabilities – Imago Dei
21 October 2015
22. In the history of Christian theology, the notion that humanity is made in the image of God has tended to mean that it is the mind or soul which is in God's image, since the bodily (corporeal or ph...
A Church of All: Persons with disabilities – Hermeneutical issues
19 October 2015
12. How can we interpret from a theological perspective the fact that some people live with disabilities? What does that fact tell us about human life in God's world? We have learned from 20th century...
A Church of All: Persons with disabilities – commonalities and differences
17 October 2015
1. "The disabled" have struggled hard to become recognized as "disabled people". The fight was worthwhile for two reasons. First, throughout history, disabled people have been de-personalised and perc...
Father Zacharias Dionysiates (1909-2000)
Monk Joseph Dionysiates
12 October 2015
Over the long course of my monastic life (1964-2015) I’ve known a host of monks who are now in the Church of the First-Born in the heavens. Of these a good number quitted the outside world in the flow...