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Theological and Scientific Theories of Knowledge (2) (George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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This personal nature of the truth is of prime significance for us. The living truth cannot be objectified, because its objectification would be tantamount to its ossification and necrosis. Knowledge of this truth is an experience of life: it is the fruit of the union of two subjects into one and the same Being, God and the human person. Neither of them becomes an ‘object’ and both, God and the person, live this event as a unified life . This realization is of particular importance in terms of approaching and evaluating any specific truth we might be seeking in our life. As a means of addressing secular truth, scientific research has a positive value. The same is true for the accomplishments ...

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Saint Maria of Olonets: They Saw her Face Shining in Life and after Death

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The suffering hermit lay in bed for about three weeks. Each day, after the Liturgy, a hieromonk came with the Precious Gifts so that she could make her communion. On the fifteenth day, her face was transfigured; it shone with a supernatural light and took on the expression of blessed peace. All her features reverted to the beauty they’d had when she was young. Even the black marks round her lips disappeared. Her face took on a pale color, like melted wax. She calmly called for the astonished Akylina and before Matrona and Pelagia, her two nieces, she said: ‘I want to confess. Get batiushka (‘my spiritual father’). The lips of the suffering hermit moved so that she who had spent her whole ...

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Like the robber (Elder Filotheos Zervakos)

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Through repentance we experience a second baptism and are cleansed of the sins we’ve committed since the first one. When we repent, confess our transgressions, decide not to repeat them, to hate them, we immediately receive remission of our iniquities and, from one moment to the next, go from being sinners to righteous, as did the robber, who gained Paradise because he repented.

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Papa-Fotis, the Fool for Christ: in his Vestments in a House of Ill Repute!

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One evening, Papa-Fotis visited one of the houses in town where he sometimes stayed. Before he went to sleep, he told the man of the house: ‘First thing in the morning, you and me have got work to do’. They got up, left Mytilini and went to his little monastery. He quickly gathered the holy vessels and his priestly vestments and went to the picturesque chapel of Our Lady Galatousa, up near the old fortifications of the town. He served the Liturgy. Then he took the Holy Chalice and the spoon and, just as he was, in his vestments, went off to one of the brothels that were in that area at the time. There he gave communion to a prostitute, Evlambia, who was ...

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