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This personal nature of the truth is of prime significance for us. The living truth cannot be objectified, because its objectification would be tantamount to its ossification and necrosis. Knowledge of this truth is an experience of life: it is the fruit of the union of two subjects into one and the same Being, God and the human person. Neither of them becomes an ‘object’ and both, God and the person, live this event as a unified life . This realization is of particular importance in terms of approaching and evaluating any specific truth we might be seeking in our life. As a means of addressing secular truth, scientific research has a positive value. The same is true for the accomplishments ...

The suffering hermit lay in bed for about three weeks. Each day, after the Liturgy, a hieromonk came with the Precious Gifts so that she could make her communion. On the fifteenth day, her face was transfigured; it shone with a supernatural light and took on the expression of blessed peace. All her features reverted to the beauty they’d had when she was young. Even the black marks round her lips disappeared. Her face took on a pale color, like melted wax. She calmly called for the astonished Akylina and before Matrona and Pelagia, her two nieces, she said: ‘I want to confess. Get batiushka (‘my spiritual father’). The lips of the suffering hermit moved so that she who had spent her whole ...

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At 6.00 p.m. of the last day of the year, December 31, 2019/January 13, 2020, the ceremony of the cutting...

  On Monday, December 31, 2019/ January 13, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of Saint Melani of Rome at...

A XXX-a ediţie a Festivalului internaţional de literatură „Mihai Eminescu” va debuta marți la Drobeta-Turnu-Severin și se va desfășura pe...

  The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, spoke to the Orthodoxia news...

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday received Alternate Citizens’ Protection Minister Giorgios Koumoutsakos...

  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself this week indirectly responded to criticism by main opposition SYRIZA over the center-right...

  Thousands of Orthodox faithful, abbots and priests continued peaceful protests around Montenegro against a recently ratified law that the...

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week visited a youth summer camp run by the Monastery of...

  More instances of vandalism of churches and chapels around Greece over the recent period have caused grief and revulsion....

Through repentance we experience a second baptism and are cleansed of the sins we’ve committed since the first one. When we repent, confess our transgressions, decide not to repeat them, to hate them, we immediately receive remission of our iniquities and, from one moment to the next, go from being sinners to righteous, as did the robber, who gained Paradise because he repented.

In every beginner, there is a twofold work, committed in the heart in a double but unmixed way: one work...

NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated, the evening of Wednesday Jan. 9, 2020, the beginning of...

One evening, Papa-Fotis visited one of the houses in town where he sometimes stayed. Before he went to sleep, he told the man of the house: ‘First thing in the morning, you and me have got work to do’. They got up, left Mytilini and went to his little monastery. He quickly gathered the holy vessels and his priestly vestments and went to the picturesque chapel of Our Lady Galatousa, up near the old fortifications of the town. He served the Liturgy. Then he took the Holy Chalice and the spoon and, just as he was, in his vestments, went off to one of the brothels that were in that area at the time. There he gave communion to a prostitute, Evlambia, who was ...

Orthodox Christian theology has always distinguished between two kinds of knowledge: the secular and the divine. Secular knowledge functions on the level of created matter and is unable to approach the uncreated, that is the divine, which reveals God’s purpose for the world. Secular science is empirical in nature. It objectivizes the world and always and everywhere seeks objectivity. While it depends on the individual and makes its leaps through personal inspiration, it avoids subjectivity. As knowledge about changeable and relative things, scientific knowledge is changeable and relative. And as an attempt to understand the finite world, with its infinitude of dimensions and phenomena, it is always both finite and never-ending. Divine knowledge is of a personal nature. It doesn’t function on ...

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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday received the current caretaker Prime Minister of the...

  The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, offers his thoughts on peace, the continued...