By St. John Chrysostom
Priests are the men entrusted with spiritual birth and regeneration through Baptism. Through them we clothe ourselves in Christ and are buried together with the Son of God in order to...
St. Basil the Great (330-378)
Much wisdom is shown to us through the holy psalmist king David by the Spirit working in him. Sometimes the prophet, describing his own sufferings and the courage with which...
Author: Alexander Belyakov
Blessed is the man who does not go into the assembly of the wicked, does not stand in the way of sinners, and does not sit in the assembly of reprobates,
but in...
Saint Basil's book "On the Holy Spirit", written for Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium, is of exceptional importance for Orthodox theology. In this book, St. Basil polemicized with the heretics who rejected the personal nature...
Washington, USA 30 Aug 2022, 03:53 Author: BLITZ
It was seized from a Greek monastery during the First World War
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., which is working to restore trust by returning...
Name worship (Gr. Onomatodoxia) - a teaching that asserts that God's name is God Himself, condemned by a Synodal Definition from the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). It arose in 1907 as a movement among...
The Cross is the main symbol of Christianity. And what they have in common is that both there and there, the ancient Greek word ὁ σταυρός (stavros) is used in the name - cross.
And...
Report from CEC highlights European Church contribution toward reconciliation and unity ahead of the WCC Assembly. The report is an outcome of CEC’s European Regional Pre-Assembly, which focused on the WCC Assembly theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity” earlier this year.
The Association of Greek Archaeologists on 22.8.2022 published an open letter to the UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, sounding the alarm about both Hagia Sophia and the Chora Monastery, which was also recently turned into a...
Salvation and, in particular, justification for the Orthodox is a free-moral state, although it can be accomplished only with the help of the grace of God. In order to be regenerated by grace, a...
According to Orthodox doctrine, God created not only the visible world, but also the invisible, spiritual world. What do we know about the world of "Powers of heaven"?
From ancient Greek, the word ὁ ἄγγελος...
The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "exceptional service/performance of the highest order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex
From Anonimous Byzantine Chronicle #104:
The translation is based on the edition of P. Schreiner - "Short Byzantine Chronicles" (Peter Schreiner. Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken. Teil I-III. Wien. 1977-79) - item 1 p.661-663 (Greek text) and...
Written by Yuriy Pushtaev for Foma.ru
The word "icon" has a primarily sacred meaning for us today. This is what we call a pictorial representation of the Holy Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy...
The Serbian Orthodox Church has proven to be an unavoidable factor in the political and social processes of the last nearly three years in the small Adriatic republic of Montenegro. It all started in...
Truly vain by nature are all people who had no knowledge of God, who, out of visible perfections, could not know Jehovah, and, looking at the deeds, did not know the Creator, but revered...
Author: protopresbiter Alexander Schmemann
In the Arian controversy, as in a knot, many threads are gathered, many questions are joined. This is the beginning of the great theological controversies in which almost five centuries of...
51. Beware of signing contracts that bind them, especially if there are any benefits and lures on the fishing line. This can involve you in an organization that will limit and force your freedom...
The Highest Artist-God-in everything that had to be done, using His almighty power, that is, the Son, for "through Him everything came into being, and without Him nothing came into being" (John 1, 3),...
Thailand is home to the second largest population of Buddhists in the world, with some 64 millions Buddhists and 41,000 temples. Buddhism came to Thailand as early as the 3rd century BCE during the...
Creation of life - God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs...and fruitful trees, bearing fruit after their kind" (Genesis 1:11). Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures... cattle... and...
The Balkan Peninsula, as a crossroads between the Middle East and Europe, as well as a center of cultural interaction between the peoples of the East and the West, is the subject of serious...
Written by Archim. Zinon (Theodore)
The icon does not depict, it manifests. It is the manifestation of Christ's kingdom, the manifestation of the transformed, deified creature; of that transformed humanity itself, which Christ reveals to...
"And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors...if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you" (Matt. 6:14);
"If you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will...