Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis Faith in Christ is firstly a matter of the heart and then of reason. The Lord didn’t say ‘Keep my commandments if you understand me’, but ‘if you love me’, which means that we can understand him only to the extent to which we love him. Read more…
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis […] Our religion is love, it’s burning love, it’s excitement, it’s madness, it’s longing for God. It’s all of this, within us. Our soul demands that we make these things our own. For lots of people, though, religion’s a struggle, a worry and an anxiety. This Read more…
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis Enjoy everything around us. Everything teaches us and brings us to God. Everything around is a drop of God’s love. The animate, the inanimate, plants and animals, birds and mountains, the sea, the sunset and the starry sky. They’re little loves, through which we come to Read more…
Let’s Talk with Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis. We’ve made the Lenten journey, completed Holy Week and celebrated the Resurrection. Now, what? How can we keep the focus of Lent and the joy of the Resurrection from fading away? Why does this journey even matter? Thursday, 5/13 at 7pm EST. Join the Read more…
Have you ever seen a t-shirt that says something like, “Soccer is life” or “Basketball is life” or maybe “Dancing is life”? Maybe you even have one yourself? Usually, the person wearing it doesn’t really believe basketball or soccer is the most important thing in the world, but still, it Read more…
Register Now and join Thursday, 5/6 at 7pm EST as we continue the conversation with Presvytera Mallory Kasapakis and Alyssa Kyritsis the leaders of Holy Week Crafts Group for Kids. This Let’s Talk program is an interactive discussion where we will discuss their experience, how parishes can continue to build their Read more…
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 Read more…
Grigoris Tzivelekis We conceal a serpent in our hearts, a great heresy, the other side of the coin called Ecumenism, and it’s known as pietism. Its parents are fear and wickedness. Its beloved is faithlessness and its offspring hardness of heart. You see lots of Christians who really believe Read more…
Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens The Gospel reading for 2nd Luke comes from the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, in which almost all Jesus’ teaching during his public ministry is gathered together, emphasis is placed on the overall context of the Read more…
Saint Theophan the Recluse Almost everyone has doubts, on occasion, concerning God and faith. These can be resolved, however, with opposing thoughts which confirm the truth of divine revelation as regards human beings and the world: the order and harmony of the universe, the miracle of life, all the Read more…