4th Sunday of the Fast Prayer and Fasting
“This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” 4th Sunday of the Fast In this Fourth Sunday of Lent, our holy Church remembers […]
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Dumitru Uţă. A saint of the Romanian prisons
He was one of the saints of the Romanian prisons, a true silver-less doctor, who spent 23 years in the Aiud prison, a man with a deep […]
Who is the Theologian?
To answer this challenging and hard question, I would like to tell you first the following story. Three students from the Theological School of Thessaloniki visited […]
Sunday of the Adoration of the Holy Cross
(Mark. 8, 34 – 9, 1) The Cross is not plain. It has something sweet, joy Today, the third Sunday of Great Lent, the Church dedicates its adoration to […]
Sin from a Palamite and from a rational views
“Son, your sins are forgiven” Some Jews brought a paralytic to Jesus asking, of course, to heal him and deliver him from his sickness. Jesus, however, turned to […]
What is an ”Anathema”?
By St. Theophan the Recluse (┼1894) Rarely does the Rite of Orthodoxy, which is now being performed, take place without censures and reproaches on somebody’s part. And no matter […]
How to stop sinning PART 2
We must face our greatest sin and not fool ourselves. If you are slothful,face it! 4. ASSENT When the will itself becomes attracted to the thought, the result is that man […]
How to stop sinning PART 1
Sin is going to happen in an instant. It happens with just the look of an eye. Besseting sins are those tenacious habits in our lives that cling to […]
The pain.Why do we sin ?
The Pain Why do we sin? If you see death and the dying man within the frame of earthly reality in the way most people come to terms […]
Between Christ and Freud PART 2
In order to put a firm end to fantasy, the Orthodox ascetic tradition, unlike the Catholic one, forbids any attempt to imagine even the apparently divine subjects like […]