The Incarnation of God, the Good News of the New Testament and the Mother of God
Alexandros Christodoulou With His incarnation, His humanization, God entered the innermost core of our lives in the most obvious way. He entered our circulatory system, our heart, the centre of everything, the centre of the universe. After He’d been expelled from our world, our body and our soul through our...
The Incarnation in the Trenches
Christmas 1914. The trenches. A different kind of cease-fire Today we call it the First World War. Then they called it the Great War. Many European countries were involved in it, in a horrendous conflict without any clear ideological stamp. Millions of people were crushed under the mill-stones of two...
Choosing Suicide Over Suffering
Sponsored By: Orthodox Christian Counseling Institute (OCCI) Join us as Fr. Chris talks with Dr. Ary Christofides, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the founder of Orthodox Christian Counseling Institute (OCCI), as they deconstruct the nature of suffering concerning terminally ill patients. What can we do when fear and anxiety fill us as we...
Ho, Ho, Holiness in the Simplicity and Purity of God
“THINK of shepherds who are made wise, think of priests who teach, of women who are delighted, when Gabriel teaches Mary joy, when Elisabeth has inside her own womb John kicking. Anna spreads the good news, Symeon opens his arms worshiping the great God inside a little infant, without...
Forgiveness Is a Journey
Do you desire forgiveness but don’t know where to start? Listen as Fr. Chris speaks with Maria Molett, a licensed marriage and family therapist and member of the Orthodox Speakers Bureau. She discusses the key elements of what it takes to experience forgiveness; given or received. This interview is sure...
Metropolitan Methodios: Christmas Celebrates God’s Becoming Man to Restore Man to God
A Christmas Reflection by His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston Once again this Christmas we celebrate the birth of the only begotten Son and Logos of God. We celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation—the mystery which has marked mankind’s history. God Himself came to live among us. “And the word...
Orthodox Iconography
In this first episode of “Beauty Will Save The World,” with Fr. Barnabas Powell, we learn about the true significance of Orthodox Iconography. The images encountered in our Churches by those outside our Tradition are frequently misunderstood and maligned. Fr. Powell explains in this podcast how our icons actually protect...
