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An ecclesiological approach on the road to the Holy and Great Synod – 6 Stylianos Tsombanidis, Ass. Professor of Theology 23 January 2016 The rekindling of fundamentalism within the Orthodox Church, with anti-ecumenism as its main feature, had already been addressed as early as March 1992 by the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox...
Praise him 22 January 2016 If you hear that your friend or neighbor is laughing at you to your face or behind your back, show them love and praise them. It's a great thing to expel human praise from your soul. But it's ever gre...
Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament? -1 Fr. James Bernstein 22 January 2016 As a Jewish convert to Christ via evangelical Protestantism, I naturally wanted to know God better through the reading of the Scriptures. In fact, it had been through reading the Gospels in the “forbi...
An ecclesiological approach on the road to the Holy and Great Synod – 5 Stylianos Tsombanidis, Ass. Professor of Theology 21 January 2016 The commensurate application of the spirit of canons such as 7 of the 5th Ecumenical Synod and 95 of the Quinisext, which are mentioned in paragraph 20 of the 5th Pre-Synod Meeting, in the new reali...
Self will and obedience (On the feast day of St Euthymios) – Part II Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 20 January 2016 We are pleased to find such examples in the lives of our holy Fathers, since the same issues concern us.  A monk always dallies with such troublesome thoughts. The elder’s advice remains a dead letter...
Self will and obedience (On the feast day of St Euthymios) – Part I Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 20 January 2016           Reading about the life and deeds of two great Fathers, St Pachomios and St Euthymios the Great, offered us the opportunity to touch on some issues which relate to our practical duty. I wou...
An ecclesiological approach on the road to the Holy and Great Synod – 4 19 January 2016 Although almost 45 years have passed since this first serious effort at defining the ecclesiological identity of the Orthodox Church with reference to the identity of the other Christian Churches, a...
Connecting with God in a World of Mass Advertising Gale Bellas-Papageorge 18 January 2016 Whether watching television, reading a newspaper, walking around town, driving on the interstate, surfing the net, or visiting stores, we are constantly inundated by mass advertising. All day long, ...
An ecclesiological approach on the road to the Holy and Great Synod – 3 Stylianos Tsombanidis, Ass. Professor of Theology 17 January 2016 Of course, the text of the 5th Pre-Synod Meeting retained the core of the thinking of the 3rd, though did not proceed to any analytical critical evaluation of the progress and particular problems of...
On Elder Kallinikos the Vigilant Archimandrite Gabriel Dionysiates 15 January 2016 He was originally from Athens and came to the Holy Monastery of Iviron first at the age of 18. Dissatisfied  with the idiorrhythmic life, he moved to the Holy Skete of Saint Ann’s and from there to Ka...
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