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The attitude of Orthodox theology towards animals

Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Member of the Editorial Board, Pemptousia, Associate Professor of the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki   Orthodox theology maintains an attitude of respect towards animals, as it does towards the whole of creation, recognizing in it the words of God himself which he pronounced when forming it. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMay 9, 2023 ago
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Saint John The Theologian, Apostle and Evangelist

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich   John was a son of Zebedee, a fisherman, and Salome, the daughter of Joseph, the Betrothed of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God. When the Lord Jesus called him, John immediately left his father and their nets and, together with his brother, James, followed Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMay 8, 2023 ago
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Sunday of the Paralytic

Excerpt from a Homily by Saint John Chrysostom If someone’s really knowledgeable about gold mines, they wouldn’t be able to bear not examining the smallest vein for the wealth it contained. So, in the Scriptures, it’s impossible without loss to pass over the merest jot. We must investigate everything since Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMay 7, 2023 ago
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Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the Sunday of the Paralytic (Acts 9:32-42)

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   Today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles tell us of the great healing of Aeneas, the paralytic man from Lydda, and the resurrection of Tabitha, who was in nearby Joppa. The Apostle Peter used to go around the cities and villages from Jerusalem and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMay 6, 2023 ago
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Evil and the Passions, an Orthodox, Patristic View

Savvas Alexandrou   In Orthodox Patristic Theology, evil is viewed as a consequence of our submission to the passions, which are inflamed by the demons, abetted by our wicked disposition. In the second volume of the Philokalia, in his work ‘400 headings on love’, Saint Maximos the Confessor tells us Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthMay 5, 2023 ago
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I have to tell you

Saint John Chrysostom   Do you want me to tell you whose work those people are doing who leave before the end of the divine liturgy and don’t take part in the final prayers of thanksgiving? What I’m going to say may be harsh, but I have to say it. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthMay 4, 2023 ago
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Saint Theofanis, Metropolitan of Peritheorio (14th Century)

Saint Theofanis served as the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, and was associated with Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvitis (†1365), whose biographer he was. Saint Nikodimos the Athonite translated this admirable and much-admired biography into a simpler form of Greek. In it, Saint Theofanis says: ‘As God is my witness, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthMay 3, 2023 ago
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Such people

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk   Those who love the world don’t love God, according to the testimony of Saint John the Evangelist: ‘If people love the world they do not have love for God within them’ (1 John 2, 15). These are people who want to live this life in Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthMay 2, 2023 ago
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Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

Saint John Chrysostom   One of the most striking features of Christianity is that it is not culture-based. Judaism is Jewish, the Olympian gods were Greek, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism are Indian, Taoism Chinese, Shintoism Japanese and so on. Whatever it may have become later, through acculturation into various societies, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthApril 30, 2023 ago
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Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †   FEAST OF THE MYRRH-BEARING WOMEN, ST JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND ST NICODEMUS 11th May 1997 In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We keep today the feast of a number of the followers of Christ of whom we think seldom, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthApril 29, 2023 ago
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Wild beasts become calm

Saint Isaac the Syrian   Nobody can hate those who are humble; nor can they berate or despise them. Christ loves them and they’re beloved by all. They love everyone and everyone wants to be with them. The wise and the instructors are all silent before the humble, to whom Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthApril 28, 2023 ago
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‘Arise quickly’

Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos   ‘Now behold, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly”. And the chains fell off his hands. Then the angel said to him, “Fasten your belt and tie on your sandals”; and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthApril 27, 2023 ago

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