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Elder Symeon, Abbot of Grigoriou Monastery (+1905)
21 October 2014
A man blessed by God, Spyridon Angelidis, as he was before his tonsure, was born in Tripoli in the Peloponnese in 1830. In 1852 he arrived at the Monastery of Ayiou Pavlou with three friends. Accordin... 
Alexei Nesteruk: “Light from the East” (Theology and the Sciences)
18 October 2014
Alexei Nesteruk, Light from the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, Fortress Press.
In a unique volume, a new and distinctive perspective on hotly debated issues in science a...
Alexios of Atlanta: “Religious Life in America”
18 October 2014
Metropolitan of Atlanta, Alexios, describes the religious life in America....
Don’t Proof Text the Holy Fathers
Seraphim Danckaert
16 October 2014
“Proof texting” is a well known problem, especially when it comes to interpreting Holy Scripture. Some people develop whole theologies around a narrow interpretation of a few scattered verses (or e...
Venerable Euthymius the Athonite
15 October 2014
Venerable Euthymius of Peristeron
Saint Euthymius the New of Thessalonica and Mt Athos, in the world was named Nicetas, and he was a native of the city of Ancyra in Galatia. His parents, Epiphanius ...
The meaning of pain in our life
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
14 October 2014
Apart from the suffering that it causes, physical, mental or spiritual pain– which entered man’s life by divine sufferance – also has positive effects for man’s earthly life and development.
It is ea...
Holy Mountain: a universal presence and a heavenward orientation
Nikolaos Metropolitan of Mesogaias and Lavreotikis
13 October 2014
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaias
The spiritual influence of Mount Athos is indisputable and certainly stems from the fact that many men have attained holiness through their secret ascetic struggle...
Keep the “line” open to God’s endless love
Fr. Cornel Todeasa
11 October 2014
People like to talk a lot. Our cell phones help us to talk anywhere, with anyone, at any time, virtually nonstop.
Photo by Kerry Lannert, CC
This seemed so true to me one day, while I was resti...
“Abraham, Interpret the Stars…”
Fr. Patrick H. Reardon
10 October 2014
Abraham looking for the stars, Byzantine manuscript, 6th Century
Bible-readers do not have to advance very far into the text before they find the Lord’s invitation and promise to Abraham:
“Look...
