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Did Our Lady give birth to God? Was God born of a woman? Iraklis Filios 15 August 2023 Saint Cyril of Alexandria wrote that the Mother of God sanctified the Holy Trinity! At first sight this is a scandalous statement. How could a human being sanctify the Holy Trinity? And if that statem...
The Dormition of the Mother of God George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 15 August 2023 In the hymnography of the Orthodox Church, the Mother of God is called ‘god after God, holding second position to the Trinity’. Some people may feel that these terms are excessive and dogmatically unf...
We’d be mad Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 15 August 2023 In the Church we carry out research. The best researchers are the saints The saints arrived, tested all the data and started out with precisely this research goal: ‘Does God exist?’. If he does, l...
The Mystery of the Most Holy Mother of God Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 14 August 2023 ‘Set a rampart about my mind, O my Saviour, for I make bold to sing the praises of Thy most pure Mother, the rampart of the world.’ Once again we have a feast, and every feast is a great opportunity ...
‘At your deathless Dormition’, plagial tone two (Choir of Vatopaidi) 14 August 2023 The Choir of the Fathers of Vatopaidi sing the Doxastiko at Lauds for the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God, in plagial tone two. %audio%...
The Dormition: Pascha of the Summer Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist 14 August 2023 In the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom celebrated in the Orthodox Church, the priest repeats the following prayer a number of times: Let us commit ourselves and one another, and our whole li...
Sloth Saint John of the Ladder 14 August 2023 Sloth is the first child of verbosity Saint John of the Ladder...
That’s how things are Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 13 August 2023 We can’t reject God, because, in order to deny something, we have to be powerful enough to get rid of it. Then we could boast of our disbelief, when God really doesn’t exist, when we’ve destroyed ...
‘Most Pure Lady, heal me from the ills of the passions…’ Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th. 12 August 2023 Exhausted  by the intensity of his struggle against the passions and the devil, the hymnographer seeks our Lady as valuable support, which is why in the small supplicatory canon he cries out to her: ‘...
It disappears Saint Isaiah the Anchorite 12 August 2023 When the mind is freed of any hope in this world, that’s when sin dies within you. If it remains free of worldly matters, then the gap that exists between us and God is closed. Then it finds itsel...
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