The Church as a Therapeutic Center: Consequences of Man’s Fall

by Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos)

The neptic teaching of the Church that refers to the inner world is strongly related to the social teaching. It might be supposed that the ascetic life of the Church has no contact with reality. In fact, the opposite is true. Only by making this analysis of the Fall are we able to solve the problems emerging in our life. We saw some of the consequences before. Now we will turn to the dramatic consequences of man’s departure from God that show that Orthodox theology is a most radical and modern action. Continue reading “The Church as a Therapeutic Center: Consequences of Man’s Fall” →

June 21, 2018 0

You are in Christ’s Church when…

by Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) of Platina

The Church of Christ is alive and free. In her we move and have our being, through Christ Who is her Head. In Him we have full freedom. In the Church we learn of truth and the truth will set us free (John 8:32). You are in Christ’s Church whenever you uplift someone bent down in sorrow, or when you give alms to the poor, and visit the sick. Continue reading “You are in Christ’s Church when…” →

June 12, 2018 0

Pentecost (the Descent of the Holy Spirit)

Pentecost (also called Trinity Day or Descent of the Holy Spirit) is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated fifty days after Pascha (thus always falling on a Sunday, this year: June 19, 2016, next year: June 4, 2017, and May 27, 2018, the year after that.) Continue reading “Pentecost (the Descent of the Holy Spirit)” →

May 26, 2018 0

Knowledge and Vision of God in Cappadocian Fathers

by Anita Strezova – Macquarie University, Sydney

The recurrent charges of atheism carried by the Cappadocian fathers against the neo-Arian Eunomius, show to what extent the Byzantine theologians of the fourth and fifth centuries were faced with the possibility of intellectualism in the knowledge of God. Continue reading “Knowledge and Vision of God in Cappadocian Fathers” →

May 23, 2018 0

Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith?

We would like to acquaint you with the lecture “Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith,” delivered on September 13, 2000, at the Meeting of the Sretenskaya Lord’s School in Moscow by A.I. Osipov, a professor of the Moscow Theological Academy. Continue reading “Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith?” →

May 21, 2018 0

True freedom

Some people by the word freedom understand the ability to do whatever one wants. People who have the more allowed themselves to come into slavery to sins, passions, and defilements more often than others appear as zealots of external freedom, wanting to broaden the laws as much as possible. But such a man uses external freedom only to more severely burden himself with inner slavery.

True freedom is the active ability of a man who is not enslaved to sin, who is not pricked by a condemning conscience, to choose the better in the light of God’s truth, and to bring it into actuality with the help of the gracious power of God. This is the freedom of which neither heaven nor earth are restrict.

+St. Philaret of Moscow

May 12, 2018 0