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The Challenge of Liturgical Translation MATT Issac Melton 26 July 2013 The following summarizes and expands commentary on the crucial question of liturgical language, which has appeared in DOXA Magazine in a number of issues. Regular readers of DOXA Magazine are well aw...

Elder Paisios the Hagiorite (1924-1994) – 3 Georgios Chr. Efthymios 23 July 2013 It is unanimously accepted by the ecclesiastical tradition that pride is the biggest enemy of man's salvation. This is also underlined by the Bible where, inter alias, it is said that the "Lord scorne...

The Risk Demanded by Jesus Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis 8 July 2013 We saw last Sunday who the Twelve Apostles were, and this Sunday the Gospel reading (Matth. 4, 18-23) describes exactly how Jesus addressed His call to His first disciples and how they responded. So w...

Blessed Sampson the Hospitaller (+ 27 June) 27 June 2013 Our blessed father Sampson came from a family from the high society of Roman aristocracy, apparently linked to the kin of Constantine the Great. He studied all the important subjects of the time, pa...

Blessed David of Thessaloniki (+ 26 June) Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari 26 June 2013 Blessed David was from Northern Mesopotamia, which was a large monastic centre, being born in about 450 A. D. For reasons we don’t know, he came to Thessaloniki together with a monk called Adola. Acco...

First Photographers of Holy Mount Athos Vasileios Khados 20 June 2013 When, on 19 August 1839, François Arago announced the invention of the daguerrotype to the Académie française in Paris, he stressed the particular importance of photography to archeology and, indeed...

The Word of God and the Church from an Orthodox Perspective-4 Petros Vassiliadis 14 June 2013 IV. The eschatological, ecclesiological and Christological dimension of the word of God a. The eschatological criterion. First of all, we have to emphasize that the Christian eschatology is neither a...

Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of Crimea (1877-1961) Metropolitan Nectarios of Argolis 11 June 2013 If you ever find yourself on the Holy Mountain or in other old churches, you will notice that many of them are painted red. If you ask the monks, they will tell you that the colour symbolizes the bloo...

We should pray for Turkey Protopresbyter Lambros Fotopoulos 10 June 2013 There are lots of Greeks who’re speculating in nationalistic terms that the disturbances in Turkey are the harbinger of glory days for Greece. In their delusional state they’ve selected some of what w...

Klaus Kenneth talks about the significance of experience in life 7 June 2013 Klaus Kenneth, author and musician, in his interview in Pemptousia talks about the significance of experience in life, especially in the life of an Orthodox Christian ...

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