Prayer is the golden link. It joins Christians, who are wayfaring strangers on earth, to God, Who is the source of life, as well as to the spiritual world of which they’re members. Saint John Kronstadtskij
(Edited by Stelios Koukos) When you see people who are very worried, troubled and sad, even though they want for nothing, you should know that they want for God. If people have everything- material goods and health- but, instead of being grateful to God, make absurd demands on Him, they’re going to hell in a handcart. If people are grateful they’re satisfied with everything. Every day they think about what God’s given them and they enjoy everything. But if they’re ungrateful, nothing pleases them. They complain about everything and are in a constant bad temper. Let’s say they don’t appreciate the sunshine and complain. The north wind comes and freezes them. They don’t want the sun, they want the shivering that the north ...
The aim of the following paper is to explore how theology that emerged in Orthodox diaspora over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries shaped the attitude of Orthodox theology towards the West. I will analyse the emergence of Orthodox theology in diaspora in three phases: the Russian émigré theology of the 1920’s and 1930’s in Paris, Greek postcolonial theology of the 1960’s and 1970’s in Athens and American orthodox theology of the Orthodox diaspora of the 2000’s and 2010’s. The October revolution in 1917 had as a consequence one of the greatest intellectual migrations in history. From 1918 to 1923, two millions people were expelled from the country for political and ideological reasons, including a great number of the ...
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When we listen to requests from Christians and the reasons why they pray, we see that often the dominant request is for health. Thousands of pieces of paper arrive at the Holy Preparation Table in all our churches, with this declared request. And in our everyday lives as well, when conversation turns to whatever is happening around us, we often end by saying: ‘As long as we have our health, we’ll manage’. It’s a top priority, the request for health. There are also a lot of people who have a confused way of looking at the Church and see it as a sort of extension of magic. They state openly that they go to church so that God will keep ...
“Save the world, O Saviour. For this you have come. Set your whole universe aright”. With the above words, Saint...
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Event Supported the Bishop Anthony Philoptochos Student Aid Endowment Fund The goal was simple. Help the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of...
Dear brothers and sisters You are invited to participate in the “4th e-Synaxis from Holy Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and the faithful of Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania “, which will take place Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 07:30-09:30 PM Athens Time. In this particular e-Meeting, Elder Ephraim will be more than happy to have a dialogue with younger people and children as well (as requested by the organizers). Elder Ephraim will talk in Greek and we will offer real-time Romanian interpretation for the entire session including the homily as well as the questions & answers. The e-Synaxis is organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA and Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca. Please register ...
The foundation of the Jesus Prayer can be found in the words of the Lord: ‘Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my Name: ask, and ye shall receive… Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name, he will give it you’ (John 16:24, 23). The more man is initiated in prayer the more he realises that the centre of all spiritual battle against the passions and the enemy is his very heart. In the Old Testament man is defined as a ‘deep heart’ (Ps. 64:6) which seeks ‘a spiritual and divine sensation’ (cf. Prov. 15:14 LXX). The way that leads to the deep heart goes through our physical heart. The relationship we find between the two is the same ...
