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Rules, chrysobulls and the wine trade on Athos Eleni Kefalopoulou, Oenologist 17 August 2014 The founders of the Athonite houses endowed them with vines, since they were well aware of their importance for the survival of the monasteries. First among these was Saint Athanasios, founder of the ...

Our Most Holy Lady, our intercessor and aid – 2 Eftychia Gioultsi 16 August 2014 As a ‘victorious general’, Our Most Holy Lady looks down with compassion from on high on her flock, which is under visible and unseen attack from enemies, especially the ancient tyrant, the Evil One, ...

Our Most Holy Lady, our intercessor and aid Eftychia Gioultsi 15 August 2014 Our Most Holy Lady has been established in the minds of the Orthodox faithful as an intercessor who unites the earth with heaven, the perceptible world with the beauty of the things of the spirit. Thi...

Cyprus: from internecine tension to the coup of 1974 Ioannis Zampartas 13 August 2014 The imposition of the dictatorship in Greece on 21 April 1967 brought destabilization and defensive disorganization to Cyprus, while, at the same time, representing a blow to the unity of the populat...

Saint John Chrysostom: Jesus’ Walk on the Sea – 2 Saint John Chrysostom 13 August 2014 What did Peter then say, given that he was ardent in everything he did, and always a step in front of the others? ‘Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water’. He didn’t say, ‘Pray and en...

Monk Filippos Vatopaidinos (1909-12/8/1988) 12 August 2014 He was born to Athanasios and Theopoula Ladas in Serres in 1909 and christened Ioannis. In 1963, he arrived at the Vatopaidan kelli of Saint Ann at Kolçu. In 1964, he was tonsured as a monk and given ...

Saint John Chrysostom: Jesus’ Walk on the Sea – 1 Saint John Chrysostom 12 August 2014 ‘And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into the mountain apart to pray: and when evening came, He was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed by waves:for the ...

Athonite Obediences 9 August 2014 In Athonite coenobitic monasteries, the obediences are changed between the first and seventh days of the year. They usually last a year or more. This custom comes from the holy fathers, because it’s b...

The Dismissal George Zaravelas 8 August 2014 The culmination of the bloodless sacrifice is the dismissal, that is the declaration on the part of the celebrant which announces the completion of the service and the exhortation to the faithful to...

Spiritual hunger, the material needs and the miracle of sharing love Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes 3 August 2014 One of the most impressive evangelical readings is that which refers to the blessing and multiplication of the five loaves and the two fish by Christ in the desert, in order to feed to the five thousa...

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