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God has His Secrets
We shouldn’t blackmail God with our prayers. We shouldn’t ask God to release us fromsomething, from an illness, for example, or to solve our problems, but we should ask for strength and support from Him to bear what we have to bear. Continue reading “Saint Porphyrios’ of Kavsokalyvia counsels on Divine Eros – Part 1”
“Με τη λατρεία του Θεού, ζεις στον Παράδεισο. Άμα γνωρίσεις και αγαπήσεις τον Χριστό, ζεις στον Παράδεισο. Ο Χριστός είναι ο Παράδεισος. Ο Παράδεισος αρχίζει από δω. Η Εκκλησία είναι ο επί γης Παράδεισος, ομοιότατος με τον εν ουρανοίς. Ο Παράδεισος, που είναι στον ουρανό, ο ίδιος είναι κι εδώ στη γη. Εκεί όλες οι ψυχές είναι ένα, όπως η Αγία Τριάδα είναι τρία πρόσωπα, αλλά είναι ενωμένα κι αποτελούν ένα. Continue reading “«Η εκκλησία είναι ο επί γης Παράδεισος » – Οσίου Πορφυρίου του Καυσοκαλυβίτου”
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international research team, led from Uppsala University, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden. Continue reading “Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age”
The Researchers María Martinón-Torres and José María Bermúdez de Castro have co-authored a research about the hominids from Tongzi which was published in the Journal of Human Evolution from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana(CENIEH) which reveals that Tongzi teeth do not fit the morphological pattern of traditional Homo erectus and that these teeth could potentially represent the highly targeted “Denisovans”. Continue reading “Tongzi hominids are potentially a new human ancestor in Asia”
Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That’s the finding of a study that has established for the first time the most effective dose of an urban nature experience. Healthcare practitioners can use this discovery, published in Frontiers in Psychology, to prescribe ‘nature-pills’ in the knowledge that they have a real measurable effect. Continue reading “Just 20 minutes of contact with nature will lower stress hormone levels, reveals new study”
Here we present selected parts of the corresponding paper by Shi Yan, Chuan-Chao Wang, Hong-Xiang Zheng, Wei Wang, Zhen-Dong Qin, Lan-Hai Wei, Yi Wang, Xue-Dong Pan, Wen-Qing Fu, Yun-Gang He, Li-Jun Xiong, Wen-Fei Jin, Shi-Lin Li, Yu An, Hui Li, Li Jin. Continue reading “Y Chromosomes of 40% Chinese Descend from Three Neolithic Super-Grandfathers”
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