Obedience as the Path to Freedom (1)
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou † In the beginning, God made Adam and Eve free. They could accept His love or reject it; they could make good use of the freedom or misuse it. The commandment not to eat of the tree of the...
Real freedom
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis Only the Son of God can free us, because He is Himself true freedom. Only if we follow the Savior are we able to remain free and can cast off the slavery of sin. So, if we wish to be free, we should follow Christ...
Respect for Others as a Restriction of Freedom
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor of the School of Theology of the University of Thessaloniki Saint Paul’s 1st Epistle to the Corinthians is the richest in terms of the number of issues he addresses. Among the many subjects the Corinthians asked him about was that of eating or not eating food...
The Freedom of the Person
Protopresbyter Efstratios Karatsoulis The issue of freedom is of great importance in the Orthodox view of humankind. According to this, people are made to be free. Freedom is the result of the fact that we’re made in the image of God and have the opportunity and potential to use...
Euthanasia: the Church accepts it only from God!
Angelos Alekopoulos People are free and autonomous and can decide on matters pertinent to their lives and even as regards their death. According to the Church, people are an image of God, autonomous, certainly, but only in terms of their relationship with others. Our freedom has to do with...
Session Three: Freedoms of Religion and the Press
Session Three: Freedoms of Religion and the Press Photos: ©GOA/Dimitrios Panagos Live from Washington DC at the 3rd Annual Archon International Conference on Religious Freedom. Opening Remarks: Panel Chair/Archon National Secretary The Hon. B. Theodore Bozonelis Moderator: Fox News Chief Religion Correspondent, Lauren Green Panelists: US Commission on International Religious...
Who is free?
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich The great news which Christianity tells the world every day is that things are judged, as regards their true worth, not by evaluating their external features, but by what they are in essence. We have to judge things not by their colour or shape but by...
The Theology of Gender – 17. Canons and freedom
Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara Anything that takes place in the Church aims at the salvation of the people and thus, involves a pastoral element. In the same way, the canons of the Church are primarily pastoral texts and have as their objective the guidance of Christians in the spiritual life and the...
Only violence against our false self brings us freedom
Metropolitan Amfilhije (Radović) of Montenegro and the Littoral All of this (see Coercion and violence are the basic characteristics of the patricidal society, also by Bishop Amfilohije) is inevitable, because necessity and violence beget only violence and enslavement. This is clear from the waves of organized terrorism today, which...
Intensity, Freedom, and Joy — A Lenten Message
”THE DIVINE SERVICES OF THE CHURCH are words in which we converse and speak to God with our worship and with our love. The hours spent closest to Paradise are the hours spent in the church together with all our brethren when we celebrate the Divine Liturgy, when we sing...
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