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Genesis 1:1 – E=mc^2

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Old Testament
  • Saint Gregory the Theologian
  • Saint John of Damascus
Dec 31 2016
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“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth”. At first glance, one might think that this refers to the blue sky above us and the ground beneath our feet. Moving on to the second verse, however,

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Do not say: nothing has been gained during prayer

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  • Prayer
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Dec 30 2016
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Our heart should beat for the One who created it. That’s why do not say, after spending a long time in prayer, that nothing has been gained; for you have already gained something.

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Why we eat?

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Saint Maximos the Confessor
Dec 29 2016
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Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not

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Orthodoxy is the true path – Photo Journal (the footpath to the Pantokrator Monastery) (Audio)

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Mount Athos
Dec 28 2016
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Orthodoxy as the true path to the heavenly Jerusalem does not guarantee that the path will be “ok”. It guarantees that,

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How to build the most influential Church news portal in Greece

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  • Aimilios Polygenis
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
Dec 27 2016
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How does one build the most influential Church news portal in Greece? More than anything, you must pray a lot, and you must struggle to

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No one ever came to God because a Christian scolded them

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Dec 26 2016
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No one ever came to God because a Christian scolded them but by

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Tragedy? No tragedy.

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Saint Sophrony of Essex
Dec 25 2016
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I saw that there was no tragedy in God. Tragedy is to be found solely in

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Merry Christmas! (Audio)

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  • Old Testament
  • Tradition, learning and education
Dec 24 2016
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,

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God always helps, but take care…

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Prayer
  • Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Dec 23 2016
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God always helps. He always comes in time, but

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Always help someone; you might be the only one

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  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 22 2016
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Always help someone; you might be the only one that does. Help today because you don’t

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Christ on Earth: between betrayals – Photo Journal from Nativity (2015) (Audio)

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Prayer
Dec 21 2016
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We usually say that Judas betrayed Christ. While it is true, this does not depict the entire life of our Lord on earth. In fact, the life of our Lord on earth was between betrayals: He was betrayed shortly after He was born and He was betrayed shortly before His death.

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The Eve of the Nativity: The eve of purity – Photo Report from Eve of the Nativity (2015) (Audio)

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
Dec 20 2016
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It was fitting that the Giver of all holiness should enter this world by a pure and holy birth. For He it is that of old formed Adam from the virgin earth,

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God answers in three ways

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
Dec 19 2016
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God answers in three ways: He says “yes” and gives you what you want. He says “no” and

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Elder Seraphim Rose: How to behave from now on

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  • Father Seraphim Rose
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
Dec 18 2016
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Only struggle a little more. Carry your cross without complaining. Don’t think you are anything special.

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The spiritual nature of hymns – A photo journal with Vatopaidi’s choir (Audio)

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  • Obedience
  • Prayer
  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Dec 17 2016
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Sometimes chanting in moderation soothes the temper remarkably. But sometimes, if untimely and immoderate, it lends itself to the lure of pleasure. Let us then appoint definite times for this, and so make good use of it. Correctly used, nothing so arouses the soul, gives it wing, sets it

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Words and Silence: the relationship

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Dec 16 2016
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Words are instruments of this world, but

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“Everything” is “impossibly difficult”

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  • Love
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Dec 15 2016
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When you have love for things divine, you can

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The person who loves the most is he who humbles himself the most – Photo Journal with Katzio

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Saint Sophrony of Essex
Dec 14 2016
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The person who loves the most is he who humbles himself the most. No one will ever attain the degree of humility of Christ or His Mother, hence

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A short description of the rational aspects of the soul

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
Dec 13 2016
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Saint John of Damascus says that the soul is intelligent and noetic. God gave man “an intelligent and noetic soul for proper breathing”. It is a basic

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The prayer of Father Arsenie Boca (fragment)

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  • Elder Arsenie Boca
  • Prayer
Dec 12 2016
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Lord Jesus Christ, help me so that today, for the whole day, I may cast myself aside, since who knows out of what petty reason I will

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About Marriage: One of the most important blessings in one’s life

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  • New Testament
  • Old Testament
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint John Chrysostom
Dec 11 2016
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A certain wise man, when enumerating which blessings are the most important included a wife and husband who live in harmony (Sir. 25:1). In another place he emphasized this:

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How to become immortal

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  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Dec 10 2016
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The man who has found love eats and drinks Christ every day and hour and so is made immortal. ‘Whoever eats of this bread’, He says, ‘which I will give him, will never taste death.’ Blessed is he who consumes the bread of love, which is Jesus! He who eats of love eats Christ, the God over all, as

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Why God allows children to stay on the Archbishop’s throne

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  • New Testament
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Dec 09 2016
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Many times, God allows children to stay on the archibishop’s throne because the grace of theosis is not made known by lessons but through innocence and purity as that of a child. Brothers and sisters, stop thinking

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That “special” moment called heresy

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
Dec 08 2016
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Heresy: That “special” moment when you have greater spiritual insight than the apostles, disciples, apostolic and holy fathers and the entire past and present Church members even though you

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A vote between heaven and earth – Photo journal with Metropolitan Theophan of Moldavia

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
Dec 07 2016
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There are so many political parties that try to deceive us. So many parties that want to exploit us. So many people who press us with their promises and, in the end, they do almost nothing for us. On the other hand,

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The humbleness of a Patriarch – Full Photo Report with the visit of Patriarch of Serbia, Irinej

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
Dec 05 2016
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It is our obligation to do a pilgrimage to Vatopaidi because Saint Savvas learnt here that only through holiness we can build a nation. We, as a nation, are

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We cannot understand our fall

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
Dec 05 2016
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A profound and hidden mystery is the fall of man. It is quite impossible for a person to understand it by his own powers. This is because

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How to reveal the image of God in children

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  • Old Testament
  • Saint John Chrysostom
  • Tradition, learning and education
Dec 04 2016
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When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. And then,

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The four aspects (powers) of the soul

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Prayer
  • Saint Gregory Palamas
Dec 03 2016
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We can divide the human soul into four aspects, three of which are formulated by Plato and, on the whole, are accepted by the Holy Fathers. We have two irrational aspects:

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You must renounce the world. …But take care why.

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  • Obedience
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Dec 02 2016
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The man who renounces the world from fear is like burning incense that begins with fragrance but ends in smoke. He who leaves the world through hope of reward is like a

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