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Prayer: A New Year’s Resolution for the Soul Fr. Cornel Todeasa 1 January 2013 A very good New Year’s resolution for the soul is to spend more quality time with God in prayer.  Prayer is to the soul what physical exercise is to the body. Among the many prayers available to us, t...
Homily on the Nativity Saint Gregory Palamas 25 December 2012 So now God not only forms human nature anew by His own hand in a mysterious way, but also keeps it near Him. Not only does He assume this nature and raise it up from the fall, but He ine...
Blessed Mother Olga of Alaska: A Modern Day Healer With God’s Grace 17 December 2012 "Come, O assembly of the Orthodox, and with love let us praise the holy women, men and children, those known to us and those known only to God, and let us cry out to them: Rejoice, All Saints of North...
The Harmonious Co-Existence of Nature and Buildings on the Holy Mountain Spyros Ntafis 14 December 2012 The environment of the Holy Mountain has not been unaltered by human activities, which might be placed into three categories: a) buildings to meet housing and liturgical needs; b) agricultural plots t...
Saint Spiridon, the patron of Corfu 12 December 2012 The holiest shrine on the island of Kerkyra (Corfu) just off the western coast of Greece is the tomb of a fourth-century saint whose body after sixteen centuries is in such a remarkable state of prese...
Saint Daniel the Stylite 11 December 2012 Stylites (the Greek word style means pillar) In the early days of the Byzantine Empire, the love for God made many monks to choose strict and strange types of asceticism. So, some ascetics-saints wer...
Mt. Athos u-topias: A cartographic afterward in Thomas More Utopia island Maria Pazarli 10 December 2012 This intervention is a short comment about maps, mythical islands, the internal quest for the ideal City and the way that all this concepts are related to Athonic monastic community. For the past t...
“Who’s your daddy?” Fr. John Parker 9 December 2012 In my first days in the Lowcountry, I discovered the importance of genealogies in Charleston. “Are you related to the Parkers on such-and-such Street?” Naively (albeit truthfully), I quickly responded...
Fasting Is Good for the Soul Fr. Cornel Todeasa 9 December 2012 Fasting has been an enduring part of our world. Every religion practices it in one form or another. Fasting has entered through a variety of doors into our “modern” lives. We fast for medical purposes...
3rd Annual Symposium in Honor of Fr Georges Florovsky 2 December 2012 Princeton University & Princeton Theological Seminary are organizing the Third Annual Symposium in Honor of Father Georges Florovsky, “What is the Bible? The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture”. N...
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