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Degrees of Faith Khader I. Alkhouri, MA, Cand. Ph.D. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 8 July 2022 The degree of faith is a specialization in the psychology of religion and applied cognitive psychology. Where a degree of faith is influenced by the psychological effects of motives, desires, attitude...
‘Authorities’ in the world Fr. Antonios Alevizopoulos (†) 8 July 2022 The kingdom of Christ is ‘not of this world’, it’s not from here (Jn. 18, 36); it’s spiritual, not  material. This is why Christ didn’t meet the millennial, messianic expectations of the Jews and was ...
Sullen and petulant Elder Moisis the Athonite † 8 July 2022 Only those who have a genuine Orthodox outlook are real, obedient children of the Church and can be gifted with grace and joy, rather than being sullen, disconsolate and petulant. Monk Moïsis t...
Holy and Glorious Martyr Kyriaki – 7 July 7 July 2022 During the reign of the Emperor Diocletian, a devout and wealthy Christian couple, Dorotheos and Evsevia, being childless, asked God to give them a child, and promised to dedicate any such offspring t...
It loses power Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 7 July 2022 I think that, if young people today are to ‘come to their senses’, they’ll have to come to know the message of the Gospel. Then the attraction exercised by the passions will wane before the attrac...
Blindness Saint John of Kronstadt 6 July 2022 Let’s cast off our spiritual blindness. Let’s stop concentrating all our attention on transitory, worldly matters. It’s really amazing that our immortal soul should be caring only about the presen...
Become imitators of us Sophia Bekri, Theologian 5 July 2022 At this time of the year, our Church celebrates the feast of the Apostles. It honors the chief among them, Peter and Paul, and then the whole group of the twelve. It hymns the preachers of the word wh...
It doesn’t help Abba Kassianos 5 July 2022 During a quarrel, our silence doesn’t help if it’s simply replacing curses and retorts, or if we accompany it with certain gestures. This will only make angrier the person we’re trying to calm dow...
The Apostles Fr. Georgios Kouyioumtzoglou 4 July 2022 The Lord’s twelve disciples who abandoned everything and followed him throughout his public ministry until the Ascension are called apostles. After the descent of the Holy Spirit, they became preacher...
Everyone will know Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk 4 July 2022 If you see or hear somebody sinning, don’t condemn them. Because if you talk about it to someone else,  they’ll pass it on to a third party, the third to a fourth. In this way, everybody will know...
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