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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...
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia “Causes of the financial crisis”
4 April 2013
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia talks about the spiritual causes of the financial crisis in Pemptousia...
The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras
3 April 2013
The monastery was founded in 1257 by the hermit St Simon, on the precipitous “Simonos petra”, or Simon’s rock. It was restored around 1368 by John Ugljesa, despot of Serres, but was destroyed by fire ...
Designation of Orthodoxy and Heresy – St Gregory Palamas [II]
2 April 2013
The second Sunday in Great Lent comes as an extension of the Sunday of Orthodoxy. On this day, the Church celebrates victory over another form of heresy, a heresy which called into question the salvat...
Designation of Orthodoxy and Heresy – St Gregory Palamas [I]
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
31 March 2013
On the first Sunday of the Great Lenten Fast, our Church celebrates the victory of Orthodoxy over the heresies. The particular historical event which was the basis and mainspring of this celebration w...
