The sense that God is everywhere present is a bridle which holds us back from evil, but it is also hope, consolation and strength. Do you know what […]
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The three levels of the soul
Conscious, subconscious, unconscious According to what the expert scientists, the psychologists, say, our soul is divided into three levels. It is somewhat like an edifice which […]
4th Sunday of the Fast Prayer and Fasting
“This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” 4th Sunday of the Fast In this Fourth Sunday of Lent, our holy Church remembers […]
Who is the Theologian?
To answer this challenging and hard question, I would like to tell you first the following story. Three students from the Theological School of Thessaloniki visited […]
Sin from a Palamite and from a rational views
“Son, your sins are forgiven” Some Jews brought a paralytic to Jesus asking, of course, to heal him and deliver him from his sickness. Jesus, however, turned to […]
What is an ”Anathema”?
By St. Theophan the Recluse (┼1894) Rarely does the Rite of Orthodoxy, which is now being performed, take place without censures and reproaches on somebody’s part. And no matter […]
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
We must take the Christian life seriously Today, my brothers and sisters, as we enter into the holy period of Triodion, I would like to highlight […]
Abortion the indescribable calamity!
This Icon is a work of the iconographer Mr. Kostas Vrousgos from Thessaloniki and was painted in Adelaide, South Australia, with the blessing of Bishop Joseph of Arianzos. It was […]
Saint Nektarios as seen through his Letters
Protopresbyter Theodoros Zisis A Myrrh-streamer and a Wonderworker, but also a great theologian and writer. Saint Nektarios, the boast of the Orthodox faithful of […]
The resurrection of the widow’s son of Nain
3rd Sunday of St Luke (Luke 7:11-18) When death occurs it saddens our hearts. For man was not created by God to die; but, was created with the possibility […]