Khader I. Alkhouri, MA, Cand. Ph.D. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The degree of faith is a specialization in the psychology of religion and applied cognitive psychology. Where a degree of faith is influenced by the psychological effects of motives, desires, attitudes, values, behavior, religious practice, and external […]
After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum, with His mother and His brothers and disciples; and there they stayed for a few days. The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and […]
Archimandrite Gregorios Κonstantinou Holy Lent is starting and the Church has ordained that, at the services on the days of this period, texts and hymns should be read from the book of the Triodio. This book took its name from the three odes, that is the three groups of […]
The woman who had fallen into many sins, perceiving Your Divinity, O Lord, assumes the role of a myrrh-bearer; and lamenting, she brings the myrrh before Your burial. “Woe to me!” she said, “For me, night is an ecstasy of excess, dark and moonless, and full of sinful desire. Receive the sources […]
Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens The Canaanite woman represents the pagan, idolatrous world. She was considered by traditional Jews to be not merely a foreigner but also an infidel. So the woman, and the whole of the people she represented, was an unbeliever and a […]
Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the Gospel in the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of His own purpose […]
Elder Moses the Athonite † The blessed Elder George came from the Black Sea and was orphaned and left on his own very early in life. After being persecuted and imprisoned by the atheist regime in Georgia, he came to Greece where the humble man lived with such asceticism […]
Sunday Epistles & Gospels Sunday of the Seventh Ecumenical Council The Parable of the Sower “Parable of the Sower” by Fikos, 2006. The Parable of the Sower Gospel Reading for the Sunday of the Seventh Ecumenical Council Luke 8:5-15 Jesus said this parable, “A sower went out to sow his […]
Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯 broadcast, comments on an article in USA Today by Deena Yellin, entitled “Millions Giving up Organized Religion—America’s Fast-Growing Movement: The…
We Should Go to the “Church of the Home” Seven Days a Week “Icon Corner” by Ted ©2011, Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Psalm 88:8(9) Every day I call upon You, O Lord; I spread out my hands to You. In the last reflection, we discussed how the primary activity of […]
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos Are the recent crimes [in Greece] simply a matter of violence and oppression against women, or do they have to do with the fact that love* has lost its bearings? We live in a time when love is treated as enjoyment, as enthusiasm, and, if it […]
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I […]