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‘Person and Violence’: The Dynamics of the Role of Orthodoxy in Modern Age Maria Alvanou, Criminologist 20 November 2014 Violence, hatred, racism and whatever disturbs the communion of persons are fundamentally opposing human nature. The Gospel, Tradition, the words of the Fathers, continual service, prayer and, above a...
The Orthodox Church of Greece and the Economic Crisis Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias 19 November 2014 On November 12th a Public Lecture, organized by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics (LSE), was delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias, on the theme "The Or...
Who I Am & What I Own Paul, Metropolitan of Aleppo 18 November 2014 “Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel’s, the same shall save it.” (Mark 8:34-9:1) In this Gospel passage the word soul is repeated many times. At one moment, we hear Jesus askin...
The Nativity Fast: What’s it all about? Fr. Stephen Freeman 18 November 2014 A podcast by Fr. Stephen Freeman: What’s it all about the Nativity Fast? nativvv This program is produced by OCN partnership The Orthodox Christian Network produces a wide variety of multimed...
Even Ascetics Need Community Fr. Ernesto Obregon 17 November 2014 They said of an old man that he went on fasting for seventy weeks, eating a meal only once a week. He asked of God the meaning of a text of the Holy Scriptures and God did not reveal it to him. So h...
The Human Sensitiveness about Life and Death Paul, Metropolitan of Aleppo 16 November 2014 “There was a certain rich man … and a beggar named Lazarus” 5th Sunday of Luke (Luke 16, 19-31) In this parable, Jesus the Lord uses, conscientiously a lot of striking contrasted pictures, and He r...
Saint Matthew: Tax-Collector, Apostle and Evangelist Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian 16 November 2014 In the lists of the Twelve disciples who are recorded in the New Testament, the name Matthew is mentioned. He calls himself this in the list of disciples he quotes in his Gospel (Matth. 10, 3), and al...
Saint Paisius Velichkovsky 15 November 2014 Saint Paisius Velichkovsky was born in Poltava in Ukraine on December 21, 1722, and was the eleventh of twelve children. His father John was a priest, who named him Peter at his Baptism, in honor of S...
Saint John Chyrsostom Exhorts Us to Pay Attention to the Sermon 13 November 2014 Saint John Chrysostom, tempera on wood, Monastery of Vatopedi, 14th Century Few people, sitting down with friends to watch a major sports event, would remind each other to pay attention. When we are...
Archimandrite Raphael (Noica) of Essex 11 November 2014 Son of famous Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica, Father Raphael was born in 1942. He received only a basic Christian education (practicing the faith in his family was reduced only to participating...
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