Elder Moses the Athonite † The paradise of the kingdom of heaven is the culmination of the perfection of freedom. In this life, the faithful have a foretaste of the grace of this peace-bearing freedom and ease, which has been the earthly experience of all the saints. Source: pemptousia.com
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes Today, is Cheese-fare Sunday, which sees the closing of the period of Triodion. Tomorrow, with God’s blessing and help, we embark upon the forty day Fast of Great Lent. Great Lent is a time of spiritual struggle for Orthodox Christians. The aim of this struggle Read more
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th. a) The dominant theme in the hymnology of Cheese-fare Sunday is ‘Adam’s Lament’ since ‘on this day we keep the memory of the expulsion of Adam the First-created from the paradise of delight’. In Paradise, Adam, the father of the Read more
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † In the person of the old Adam, the human race fell, when it sinned against love; and God’s dread judgement will be a crisis (i.e. judgement) for human love. Humankind was called to total unity of the whole of our lives with God, through love, Read more
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis The lack of simplicity, sincerity and authenticity in relations between people leads to social hypocrisy, meretricious morality and formality and, at the same time, provokes adverse reactions among younger people. The problem is worse when there’s no simplicity even among so-called spiritual people. “When spiritual people Read more
Saint John of Damascus Now because God was about to fashion people from the visible and invisible creation in His own image and likeness to reign as monarchs and rulers over all the earth and everything that therein is, He first made for them, as it were, a realm Read more