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Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches (Phanar, March 6-9, 2014) – Message 12 March 2014 Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches (Phanar, March 6-9, 2014) Message In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Through the grace of God, the Primates of the...

Ρroceedings of the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches 12 March 2014 By the grace of God, the proceedings of the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches concluded today, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy. The Synaxis took place at the Phanar from 6-9 Ma...

He neither Exists nor doesn’t Exist. He is! Nikolaos Metropolitan of Mesogaias and Lavreotikis 20 February 2014 In the end, it often seems that our search for God resembles a vain attempt to get through to Him via the wall rather than the door. And when we don’t make it, we deny Him. That’s what these young peo...

On the Fear of God as the First Commandment Saint Peter the Damascan 19 February 2014 If we wish to progress quickly, we must concentrate on the commandments and nothing else: otherwise we will fall over a cliff or, rather, into chaos. In the case of the seven gifts of the Spirit and o...

The New Martyr Jordan of Constantinople 15 February 2014 The New Martyr Iordanis (Jordan), martyred in Constantinople on 2nd of February, 1650 The saint came from Trebizond, on the southern shore of the Black Sea, in what is now Turkey, but lived in the Ga...

Of Creatures Unknown James W. Lillie 13 February 2014 In his homily in praise of those who have love in their hearts, which we published recently, Saint Symeon the New Theologian states that love “is one in nature, wholly beyond the ken of angels or men ...

Elder David Dionysiatis (1890-1983) – Part 2 Monk Joseph Dionysiates 11 February 2014 Not only that, but because he was so handy at whatever he was doing, the Elder also sent him to the dependency at Monoxyliti, to Saint Onufrios’, the mill, the boat-house, everywhere, inside and out. ...

Elder David Dionysiatis (1890-5/2/1983) – Part 1 Monk Joseph Dionysiates 5 February 2014 Prologue Over the course of my stay of some fifty years in the refuge of repentance and prayer, the beautiful bower of Our Lady the Mother of God, the protectress and overseer of the splendid earthly...

The Saints Stand By Us Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 18 January 2014 When we refer to the life of a saint, we tend to extol their actions and promote them mostly on the basis of the wonderful things they performed. From very ancient times, it was thought that this elev...

Let’s discuss the sermon at long last – 3 Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos 14 January 2014 3. Dark Generalities. “You wrap your meaning in as dark generality as any courtier”, says Saint Thomas Becket to the third tempter, in T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. This is, indeed, the temp...

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