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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.
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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...




