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The Mystery of Baptism
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios
22 January 2015
Fr. John Romanides: The Church lives in the context of Pentecost. Illumination — which is the aim of Baptism and is assumed to be identical with Chrismation, as Chrismation is illumination — is the he... 
Saint Arsenius of Paros (+1877)
22 January 2015
Saint Arsenius was born on January 31, 1800 in Ioannina, Epirus of pious Orthodox parents. In holy Baptism he was given the name Athanasius. His parents died when he was quite young. He was only nine ...
Saint Maximus the Confessor
Sister Vassa Larin
21 January 2015
St. Maximus was born in the late 6th century, in Palestine – according to the earliest version of his life. He was well-educated, and served the Emperor Heraclius (610-641) for a time at the Byzantine...
Cultural Persecution of Displaced Christians
21 January 2015
Chris Vlahonasios takes on the topic of the persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Middle East. He discusses the issue by way of his review, first, of the 2009 indie file, “...
The feast of Theophany at Vatopedi Monastery, Holy Mount Athos – 2015
20 January 2015
The feast of the Epiphany was celebrated (OC) with pomp at the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Holy Mountain Athos, being present the Metropolitan of Veria (Berea), k. Panteleimon and the auxiliary bishop of Odessa, k. Victor....
All Scripture Is Inspired by God: Problems in the Apocrypha
Joel Kalvesmaki
20 January 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...
Me, my selfie, and I
Fr. Vasile Tudora
19 January 2015
They say—and I am willing to believe it—that it is difficult to know yourself—
but it isn’t easy to paint yourself either.
Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother, September 1889
Fr. Vasile Tu...
Confessing Sin to a Loving God
19 January 2015
Fr. Chris Metropulos
Have you made any resolutions for the New Year? Are you hoping to put the old year behind you? This week, we have the first of many discussions with Fr. Christodulos (Papadeas)...
On the beautiful road of love – a letter of Elder Ephraim of Arizona
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
18 January 2015
I pray that the All-good God will send down upon you the All-holy Spirit, as He did to His divinely sent holy Apostles, so that you may be enlightened to walk the arduous path of salvation. “Behold no...
New Martyr George of Ioannina (+1838)
17 January 2015
George was born in 1808 in the village Tsourchli in what is now Grevena Prefecture, Greece, the son of a poor farmer Constantine and his wife Vasilo. Orphaned at a young age and without any formal edu...
