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New President of Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology 3 May 2015 Following a rigorous search process that began in October 2014, the Board of Trustees of Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (HCHC) today, May 1, 2015, voted unanimously ...
The Sunday of the Paralytic 3 May 2015 Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna in Austria discusses the reading of the 4th Sunday of Pascha, of the Paralytic (in John 5) according to the Byzantine Pentecostarion...
Jonathan Jackson: “How I became Orthodox” 2 May 2015 Holywood actor Jonathan Jackson, recipient of five Emmy Awards, at an interview given in "Pemptousia" during his recent visit to the Monastery of Vatopaidi - Mt Athos, speaks about how he became Orthodox...
Pemptousia FM – Pearls of Great Price: The Faith 1 May 2015 Veronica Hughes Faith is a complex virtue, which is not understandable by our mind, but by our heart. Just as one cannot have obedience without humility, one cannot have faith without also having ‘t...
Do not Add to His Words: The Orthodox Option Joel Kalvesmaki 29 April 2015 Joel Kalvesmaki is Editor in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, overseeing the production of Dumbarton Oaks' flagship Byzantine publications, print and digital. He is active in the digital humanitie...
On Modern Fundamentalist Secular State Fr. - Dumitru Vanca 28 April 2015 Some time ago, Faculty of Orthodox Theology (from “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia) hosted a Symposium for Saints Constantine the Great and his mother Helen (2013-12th International Confere...
Pemptousia FM: The meaning of the Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom 27 April 2015 Dr. Bruce Beck We listen to the Easter homily of St. John Chrysostom every year, but do we know what it means?  Why do we shout back, “It was embittered” in the middle of the night?  We contacted Dr...
The Monastic Life: The way of perfection George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 27 April 2015 Prof. Georgios Mantzaridis With the advent of monasticism, a special way of life appeared in the Church, which however did not  proclaim a new morality. The Church does not have one set of moral rul...
The Ceremony of the Washing of the Feet on the Holy Island of Patmos Th. G. Axelos 27 April 2015 For four hundred years now, on the pleasantly cool island of divine visions, holy little Patmos, on Great Thursday every year, there’s been a tradition of re-enacting the drama of the Last Supper, whi...
Saint Kalandion of Cyprus 26 April 2015 Saint Kalandion After the fall of Palestine to the Arabs, a large number of crusaders (soldiers, clergy and lay people) settled in Cyprus. Many of them led a hermit's ascetic life and they were clas...
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