Saturday, February 28, 2015
The Banquet of Empress Theodora on the First Sunday of Orthodoxy
Saint John Cassian the Roman as a Model for our Lives
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St. Cassian the Roman (Feast Day - February 29) |
Friday, February 27, 2015
Blessed Elder Ephraim Katounakiotis (+ February 27, 1998)
Thursday, February 26, 2015
A Church Where the Theotokos Confirms the Practice of Fasting
Elder Iakovos Tsalikes: "Fasting is a Commandment of God"
Elder Timothy Tzannis: On Temperance
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Fasting Resource Page
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Gluttony, Vatopaidi Monastery |
Orthodox Fasting
The Orthodox Truth About Asceticism
Fasting According to the Church Fathers
Why Orthodox Christians Fast (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)
St. Basil the Great's Homily On Fasting (1 of 3)
St. Basil the Great's Homily On Fasting (2 of 3)
St. Basil the Great's Homily On Fasting (3 of 3)
Fasting as a Weapon in Spiritual Warfare (St. Isaac the Syrian)
Homily on Fasting and the Origin of the World (St. Gregory Palamas)
Homily to Encourage Fasting (St. Gregory Palamas)
What We Often Call Fasting Is Not Fasting (Nikephoros Theotokis)
"This Kind Does Not Go Out Except Through Prayer and Fasting" (St. Theophan the Recluse)
Fasting as a Tool of Perfection
Asceticism and Its Fruits (St. John of Kronstadt)
A Healthy Lifestyle vs. an Ascetic Lifestyle (St. John of Kronstadt)
St. John of Kronstadt on Fasting
We Ought Not Care More For the Body Than the Soul
On the Fragrant Souls and Bodies of the Saints (St. John of Kronstadt)
On Fasting (St. Nektarios of Aegina)
St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Fasting
Prayer, Fasting and Demonic Influence
Saint Porphyrios on the Ascetic Exercise of Fasting
Gerondissa Gavrilia On Fasting
Elder Iakovos Tsalikes: "Fasting is a Commandment of God"
Fasting as an Ecclesiastical Notion
The Antidote to Demonic Possession
The Holy Elder That Invited a Demon To Possess Him
A Church Where the Theotokos Confirms the Practice of Fasting
Elder Timothy Tzannis: On Temperance
Fr. Alexander Men: On Keeping the Orthodox Fasts
Dialogue With an Athonite Elder on Fasting
The Power of Prayer and Fasting
Healing By Prayer and Fasting
The Ascetic Corrective (Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople)
Fasting Is Great, But Love Is Greater
Who Should Commune?
To Forgive Is More Admirable Than To Fast
We Ought Not Care More For the Body Than the Soul
Scandalizing By Fasting?
Various Views on Fasting
Should A Child Fast?
A Church Where the Theotokos Confirms the Practice of Fasting
Pouqueville on Greek Fasting Practices in 1798
A Confrontation Between Eugenios Voulgaris and Voltaire
The Man Who Starved to Death While Feeding the Hungry
Saint Tarasios, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ 806)
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St. Tarasios of Constantinople (Feast Day - February 25) |
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Great Lent: A Time of Hunger and Temptation
Popular Edited Photos of Saint Paisios with their Originals
Bulgarian Bones Could Be John the Baptist's, Scientists Say
Monday, February 23, 2015
Fasting as a Tool of Perfection
12 Changes and Transformations After a Period of Forty Days or Years in the Bible
Saint John the Theristis (Harvester) of Calabria
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St. John the Harvester (Feast Day - February 23) |
Saint Damian the Myrrhgusher of Esphigmenou (+ 1280)
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St. Damianos of Esphigmenou (Feast Day - February 23) |
Sunday, February 22, 2015
The Meaning of Forgiveness Vespers
The Inheritance of the Ancestral Sin
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Nun Barsanuphia and the Pouch with Thousands of Names
Saint Timothy of the Monastery of Symboloi (+ 795)
St. Timothy of Symboloi (Feast Day - February 21) |
Friday, February 20, 2015
Features of a Religious Extremist
OSU Professor: The Byzantines were Romans
Tom Jackson
Feb 18, 2015
Sandusky Register
Thursday, February 19, 2015
The House of Saint Philothei
Saint Conon the Baptizer
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St. Conon the Baptizer (Feast Day - February 19) |
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The Miracle of the Icons of Hagia Sophia that Left the Turks Speechless
Saint Leo I, Pope of Rome
St. Leo of Rome (Feast Day - February 18) |
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The 11th Century Church of Saints Theodoroi in Klafthmonos Square in Athens
The Veneration of Saint Theodore the Tiro in Samos
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Procession Icon of St. Theodore the Tiro in the Parish Church of Saint Theodore in the city of Samos |
A Unique Photo of St. Paisios the Athonite with the Russian Elder Papa Tychon
Monday, February 16, 2015
The Preconditions for Canonization
Saint Maruthas of Martyropolis and the Holy Martyrs of Persia Who Rest There
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St. Marouthas of Martyropolis (Feast Day - February 16) |
Standing beside God he is glad very very much.
Because many there were martyred by the sword.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
A Homily for Meatfare Sunday: The Love the Lord Seeks on Judgement Day (Fr. George Metallinos)
Slavery and Saint Onesimus
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Holy Apostle Onesimus (Feast Day - February 15 and November 22) |
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Elder Ambrose Lazaris: "Marriage Is Like A Row Boat"
Holy New Martyr Damian the New (+ 1568)
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St. Damianos the New (Feast Day - February 14) |
Friday, February 13, 2015
Elder Thaddeus on the Souls of the Dead
St. Gregory the Great on the Unity of the Three Apostolic Sees of Rome, Antioch and Alexandria
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Saint Meletios of Antioch as a Model for our Lives
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St. Meletios of Antioch (February 12) |
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Holy Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste, and Those With Him
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St. Blaise of Sebastea and those with him (Feast Day - February 11) |
Should Prayer Be Our Last Resort in Troubles?
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Saint Zeno the Letter Carrier as a Model for our Lives
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St. Zeno the Letter Carrier (Feast Day - February 10) |
Saint Haralambos Resource Page
Synaxarion of Saint Haralambos the Hieromartyr and Wonderworker
Life of the Holy Hieromartyr Haralambos of Magnesia the Wonderworker
Saint Haralambos as a Model for our Lives
Life of the Holy Hieromartyr Haralambos of Magnesia the Wonderworker
The Incorrupt Left Hand of Saint Haralambos
Monday, February 9, 2015
When St. Arsenios of Cappadocia Saw St. Haralambos in the Holy Water
The Proposal of Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos for the Canonization of Saint Paisios the Athonite
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This photo of St. Paisios was taken by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos in 1977. |
It was recently announced by the Ecumenical Patriarchate that Elder Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva has been canonized, and is now officially a Saint of our Church.
This gives me special joy, because ten years ago I proposed the process for his canonization. Possibly others did this as well, but I did it officially and I followed the path through the Sacred Synod of the Church of Greece.
Specifically in 2004 I sent to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, through the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, a letter by which I requested the canonization of Elder Porphyrios together with other blessed and sanctified Elders.
The Patriarch then sent me through the Sacred Synod of the Church of Greece a very important letter, which I keep in my file as a presumption of the highest honor and in which he thanked me for the "informed decision" of my suggestion, and expressed his joy about it, putting forward his belief that they are "potentially" saints of the Church and he would consider it a great honor for their canonization to take place during his Patriarchate. However, as he wrote, we would have to wait a little while longer in time, something which began to manifest itself.
My suggestion for their canonization was based on theological criteria.
St. John Climacus on the Remembrance of Wrongs
Sunday, February 8, 2015
A Priest in Thessaloniki Whose Six out of Eight Children are Monastics
Archbishop Jovan of Ochrid Liturgizes After 1147 Days
On a Resolute and Sustained Purpose
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Why Heretics Were Burned Alive
