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Feast of Saint Evdokimos at Vatopaidi
Tryphon Coustas
25 October 2013
At noon on Tuesday 15 October, His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Myra arrived at the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, having been invited by the Monastery to officiate at the Feast in honour of Sa... 
Blessed Christodoulos of Patmos
Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari
21 October 2013
Translation of the Relics of Blessed Christodoulos on Patmos (21 October)
The Blessed Christodoulos, or Ioannis as he was in the world , was born in the year 1020 in Nicaea, Bithynia, of devout paren...
Blessed Gerasimos the Younger, from Kefallonia
20 October 2013
Our blessed father Yerasimos was born in 1509, in the village of Trikala, near Corinth in the Peloponnese. His God-fearing parents, Dimitrios and Kali came from the prominent Notaras family and, from ...
Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos: “Maximus the Confessor’s Eucharistic Ontology”
Evagoras Mahaira
11 October 2013
Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos, "A Eucharistic Ontology: Maximus the Confessor's Eschatological Ontology of Being as Dialogical Reciprocity", transl. by Elizabeth Theokritoff, 2010: Holy Cross Orthodox Pres...
Church of Sts Sergius & Bacchus in Ma’loula Destroyed by Militants
9 October 2013
Militants have destroyed the ancient Christian Church of Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus in Ma'loula and have stolen or demolished its world-famous icons. A correspondent of ITAR-TASS agency saw it f...
The Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
7 October 2013
These bold and holy martyrs of the Christian faith were, at one time, officers at the impartial court, in the reign of Maximian. This impious emperor appreciated them particularly for their bravery, w...
Cremation versus the Orthodox Practice of Burial
Abbot Tryphon
5 October 2013
The first time I ever attended a funeral service where cremation of the body of the deceased had taken place was in Portland, Oregon, many years ago. An Episcopal priest friend had died and had reques...
Three Browncoat Meditations
Fr. Lawrence R. Farley
2 October 2013
Under my black cassock, I am wearing a brown coat. Not literally, of course, but certainly metaphorically. That is, I am an unapologetic fan, defender, and devotee of the TV series Firefly. My fami...
Encomium on the Conception of John the Baptist (part 3)
Saint Sophronios of Jerusalem
27 September 2013
And so John was begotten in the womb of his holy mother, who was endowed with the gift of prophecy, by a priest and prophet father who was adorned with a thousand and one shining virtues and especiall...
