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Encomium to the Most Holy Mother of God-1
15 August 2013
Wishing to speak, wretch that I am, about the blinding radiance of the Mother of God, her dread and inconceivable powers, the mystery of the heavens and the world, the wonder, the mercy seat, and atte... 
Let’s recognize God’s gifts at long last
Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis
11 August 2013
All those who really believe in God accept his attributes as these have been taught to us by the Church: that He created the world; that He loves and cares for His creatures; and that He wants them to...
Orthodoxy in Japan Today
10 August 2013
The Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church faces problems in its mission: people in the "land of the rising sun" are in no hurry to get baptized.
"We have newly converted believers, who have been baptiz...
“Mysteries of Jesus Prayer”
29 July 2013
For nearly two millennia, the holy men and women of Eastern Christianity have built lives of reflection, humility, and constant connection to God around a simple sentence, the Jesus Prayer. Now you ca...
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...
