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They stop thinking logically (Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis)

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Stubborn people who enjoy arguing and wrangling are hollow and empty. They struggle against others to the point of exhaustion and, though they’re dog tired, refuse to give way. They have no regard for themselves and misbehave as if they were maniacs. What matters to them is not the truth, but if the view of others should prevail their reason ceases to function and they try to gain the victory by shouting.

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Sunday of the Prodigal Son (Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †)

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19 February 1984 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Time and again I have occasion to preach on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, on the story of the Publican and the Pharisee, and every time I notice how easy it is for me – not in fact, not in reality, but in imagination – to identify with the sinner who has found his way to God, with the publican who stood broken-hearted at the gate of the church, unable to walk even into the holy space of God, or with the prodigal son, who in spite of grievous sin, of incredible insensitiveness, of cruelty, still found his way home. And how rarely I was touched to ...

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God’s Great Love for Us (Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia)

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‘But he became angry and did not wish to enter’. The parable of the Prodigal Son, which is read today in church, has been called a pearl among the parables, and the Gospel within the Gospel. Some commentators have called it the Parable of the Elder Son. Indeed, the behavior of the elder son is striking. On his return home, he was told of the return of his younger brother. He refused to enter the house and accused his father of being unfair to him. The charge was based on the fact that he worked day and night and wasn’t properly rewarded, unlike the prodigal son who’d spent his substance on harlots but who, when he came back, was given a ...

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Reflections on the future of Orthodox Theology after Crete, on the publication of the book ‘The Patristic Witness pf Georges Florovsky Essential Theological Writings’

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Watch Rev. Dn. Dr. Anastasios Brandon Gallaher’s speech at the International Conference “The Theological Legacy of Archpriest Georges Florovsky”. The conference was organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies.

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