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Blessed Martyr Romanos, the athonite monk from Kavsokalyvia
5 January 2015
The Saint was from Karpenesi. He was totally illiterate, the only thing he knew was that he was a Christian.
One day he heard that some fellows were going to venerate the Holy Tomb and he followed...
Saint Sylvester, Pope of Rome
2 January 2015
Saint Sylvester, mosaic form San Marco Church in Venice, 12th Century
Saint Sylvester, Bishop of Rome (314-335) was born at Rome of Christian parents named Rufinus and Justa. His father soon died, a...
Venerable Melania of Rome
31 December 2014
Melania was born in Rome into a devout Christian family. Her parents, people of property and wealth, hoped that their daughter would marry and have children who would inherit their wealth.
Saint...
The 10 best reads of 2014 on Pemptousia.com
30 December 2014
10. The real life and the meaningful happiness
by Klaus Kenneth
Klaus Kenneth speaks of a society where pleasure, hedonism and vanity dominate...
9. Elder Joseph the Hesychast: an accou...
Reducing Stress
Fr. Chris Metropulos
28 December 2014
Fr. Chris Metropulos
Do you procrastinate and then find that you need stress to move you through your day? Has stress affected your health and well being? Listen as Dr. Randa Anderson at the Orthod...
Imagining the Holy
Keith Massey
26 December 2014
I grew up in a Lutheran Church in Wisconsin, hearing the stories of the Bible every Sunday just as I still do now as an Orthodox Christian. And my imagination filled in the details of the tales procla...
Keeping Christ in Christmas
Fr. Chris Metropulos
25 December 2014
Fr. Chris Metropoulos
Are you struggling to keep Christ in Christmas? Has Santa Claus choked out the memory of St. Nicholas? Fr. Chris speaks with Carol Myers, a co-founder of the St Nicholas Cente...
Patriarchal Proclamation of Christmas 2014
24 December 2014
Prot. No. 1377
+ BARTHOLOMEW
By God's Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome
and Ecumenical Patriarch
To the Plenitude of the Church:
Grace, mercy, and peace from the Savior Christ, born in ...
Jacob Clark, Orthodox Christian & Theater Actor
22 December 2014
Chris Vlahonasios interviews Jacob Clark, a theater actor based in New York. Jacob’s family converted to Orthodoxy when he was a child, and his father is a retired priest. They discuss how his Ortho...
All Scripture Is Inspired by God: Thoughts on the Old Testament Canon
Joel Kalvesmaki
21 December 2014
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...