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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...