By St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite Job's imitator, divine Chrysostom, always used to say this memorable quote, on every occasion: "G...

Saint Basil the Great refers to the fire of the Three Children in the furnace to interpret Psalm 28/29:7, where it says the fire was split o...

Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos (+ 1989) often held discussions with Old Calendarist zealots. His efforts in this was not only at the level...

Having witnessed the endless string of disasters that shattered his beloved Italy in the late 6th century AD, Pope Saint Gregory the Great ...

Sts. Zacharias and John of Constantinople (Feast Day - November 17) Verses Zacharias together with John, Bear the mind of Cherubim wit...

By John P. Bougas The Gospel reading for the Sunday of the Last Judgment is about hell and eternal life, or more generally about the futur...

By Fr. Demetrios Bokos The event of the Final Judgement has been proclaimed from ancient times. When the Prophet Daniel was held captive i...

This image depicts a beneficial story told by Abba Makarios the Great of Egypt (Jan. 19) and recorded in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers ...

- The toll houses about which the Fathers write are symbols of a reality. The Fathers understand them as follows: after the fall of man, th...

By Nun Magdalene It is a serious educational mistake to talk to young children in detail about demons, because if a child hears once how t...

By Fyodor Dostoevsky Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love...

Within historical context, St. John Chrysostom explains that the Three Holy Children, who refused to worship the pagan idol in Babylon, wer...

By John Sanidopoulos St. John Chrysostom probably more than any other Father of the Church speaks about the "wrath of God" and ...

Fr. John Photopoulos ...continued from part six. (The letter below refers to only two volumes of the works of Pseudo-Isaac that were pu...

...continued from part five. 6. Abba Isaac on Eternal Life and Eternal Hell All of the above cacodoxies of the Pseudo-Isaac writings have...

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware ...continued from part four. 5. The Appalling Intervention of Bishop Kallistos Ware In 1998 Bishop Kallist...

Dr. Sebastian Brock ...continued from part three. 4. The Blasphemy of Pseudo-Isaac After the pseudo-revelation that Saint Isaac was Ne...

Holy Prophet Ezekiel (Feast Day - July 23) By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas The Prophet Ezekiel belongs to the chorus of the f...

St. Sisoes the Great (Feast Day - July 6) Three old men came to see Abba Sisoes, having heard about him. The first said to him, 'Fat...

Below are some very characteristic and very important passages from Saint John of Damascus on the subject of Hell: 1. Hell is not God...