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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...
The Righteousness of Humility
Fr. Matthew the Poor
11 January 2014
In January, 1976, Fr. Matthew delivered a sermon in the church of Abba-Skheiron in the Monastery of Saint Makarios. He makes many of the same points as John Chrysostom did in his Discourse on Baptism,...
Christian Morals, as they Emerge from the Incarnation of Logos – 4
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
29 December 2013
Who will not leap for joy and be filled with rejoicing when we have inherited all this grace and these gifts through the love of our Redeemer? And He has not deprived us of the sense of His presence e...
