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The Temporary Recognition of Christ
Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis
28 April 2013
The raising of Lazarus was an event which could hardly have passed unnoticed. The resurrection of a dead person, four whole days after their death, produced an enormous impression in Jerusalem ... 
Saint Paraskevi from Epivates, the Patron Saint of the Balkans
25 April 2013
Blessed Paraskevi. The fragrant blossom of the desert
“God is marvellous in His saints” are the words of the Prophet of God (Ps. 67, 35). He’s wonderful in the whole of creation, in all the other cr...
Apocalypse Now
Fr. Stephen Freeman
22 April 2013
Few teachings of the Christian faith are as easily misunderstood and equally misapplied as the things pertaining to the “End of the World.” Christian history, both East and West, offers numerous examp...
Feast of the Annunciation at Vatopaidi
20 April 2013
We left on Saturday morning from Thessaloniki, headed for the Holy Mountain, to attend the all-night vigil at the Monastery of Vatopaidi on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation.
After a rath...
On Humility
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
16 April 2013
We’ve passed the midway point of Great Lent, this competitive arena, and now we’re moving towards the goal, when we’ll experience what it really means to venerate the holy feasts, which have so much s...
John the Sinaite (+ Fourth Sunday of Great Lent): “On Vainglory”
13 April 2013
Anyone who’s vainglorious is a Christian idolater. Externally they pretend to worship God, but in fact their aim is to please other people, not Him. Everybody who wants to show off is vainglorious. If...
Concerning the Diet of the Fathers
Archimandrite Gabriel Dionysiates
11 April 2013
When the grace of God moved my heart to come to this blessed place of quietude and prayer it was February in the year of Our Lord 1910. My desire was to go to the Skete of Kavsokalyvia, where the Bles...
Dimensions of the Fast
Saint Basil the Great
10 April 2013
We know the grace of fasting from Isaiah, who rejected the Jewish way and taught us true fasting: that we should nor fast because of conflict and strife, but to loose the bonds of injustice (Is. 58, 4...
Αn Olympic Winner dedicates his medal to The Mother of God
4 April 2013
Ilias Iliadis, Winner of Olympic bronze, dedicates his medal to The Mother of God our Comfort.
On the afternoon of 27 March, the Olympic medallist Ilias Iliadis visited the Holy Monastery of Vatopaid...
