Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia Sharing, Silence, Suffering If the Mother of God at the moment of the Annunciation is a true icon of human freedom, of authentic liberty and liberation, then her actions and reactions in the events that follow shortly afterwards in St. Luke’s Gospel illustrate three basic […]
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis ‘Keep saying in your heart “Christ is love”. In this way, you’ll love everyone else, all other people, sacrificing what you hold precious, even your very life, for the sake of this love’. (Saint John Kronstadtskij, My life in Christ). There are three premises which form the […]
Yannis Zervos Alexander Schmorell was the co-founder – along with his friend Hans Scholl – of the anti-Nazi resistance group the ‘White Rose’, which tried to stir up the conscience of the Germans against the regime by distributing leaflets through the post. We were made aware of his canonization […]
Protopresbyter Antonios Christou One of the consequences of the war in the Ukraine following the Russian invasion, which is unfortunately on-going and to which there is no end in sight, is the energy question. Natural gas, petroleum and other forms of energy, together with the dependence of countries, particularly […]
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. II Corinthians 3:17 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. Galatians 5:13 Live as […]
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this […]
Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, […]
Panagiotis Christou In Slovenia The Moravians and Slovenians were waiting impatiently for the brothers, but they did not appear. Kocel of Slovenia sent a letter requesting Methodios and the Pope sent him in the spring of 869, shortly after the death of Cyril. In a letter to Kocel and […]
Panagiotis Christou The World of the Slavs The Slavs first appeared in history at the end of the first century A.D. They then lived to the east of the Germans, in the region of the Vistula. In the sixth century, there were three tribes: the Slavs, the Venedi and […]
Panagiotis Christou By the beginning of the ninth century, more than a thousand years had already passed since the foundation of the city of Thessaloniki (315 B. C.). During this time, the city had known days of magnificent glory and grim disaster, though it had remained famous and proud […]
THIS THURSDAY (May 12, 7pm EST), join us for the first in a series of conversations about the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, with Dr. Gayle Woloschak (Northwestern University), Rev. Dr. Cyril Hovorun (Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy) and Katrina Straker (IOCC). Over the next several weeks, we’ll approach this […]
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