"God is able to raise up children from these stones..." (Luke 3:8) INTERPRETATION: Almighty God has the creative power to raise up children... even from these stones! (Note: Here, Christ alludes to a 'targetable'...
An Athonite KAKOgiros... from the Holy Mountain of KAKOgiros
The exaggerated 'semiology' of the name CHRIST...
"And gave Him the name which is above every name..." (Phil. 2:9) Christ -> Christian = a Name "above every (other) name..."! [ 1 ] Our name is... the title of our 'story'. Our life (no matter how much it may seem the same or similar... when compared externally with the...
Sacred memories, amidst the blizzard of memory...
"The righteous will be remembered forever..." (Psalm 111:6) INTERPRETATION: The righteous man, for his virtuous and humble life, is rewarded by God in return, with eternal, glorious remembrance & glory... Like today, December 5 - at the dawn of Saint Sava's Day - before...
Following the Christmas Star psychologically/mentally...
Our Holy Triune God is the only Creative Cause for the creation out of nothing... and the functional perfection of the spiritual (heavenly) World of the incorporeal Forces...! Also, for the uninterrupted creation and providential maintenance of the living (earthly) World of...
Leading an Athlete of Karteria into the sacred Light…
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... for you, Lord, are with me..." (Psalm 22:4)! INTERPRETATION: Even though I walk through the dark deserts, full of deadly dangers... I will not fear, my Lord, for you are with me...
Saranda Liturgy, a 'Rain of Mercy' of Divine Grace to all thirsty worlds...
The 15th of November of each Autumn - according to the Tradition of the Orthodox East - marks the beginning of the 40-day Lent of Christmas... but also the 1st Liturgical day, from the beginning of the Christmas 40-day liturgy, which is proposed as a period of spiritual...
Our EGO, in front of scales of comparisons... towards minor and major sizes!
"This small world, the great..." (Odysseas Elytis, Axion Esti...) Instead of a prologue. An imaginative... but absolutely realistic 'scenario': a desperate cry of mental despair... of a 'grain of stardust', searching within the universal 'framework' of...
Ignorance... a miserable and dark prison!
"Know the truth... and the truth will set you free!..." (John 8:32) INTERPRETATION: Only by knowing the truth... will you be freed from the terrible slavery of ignorance...! Humans, although beings with a 'god-related' origin... and a 'god-worthy' spiritual...
Stop and listen... inside you, around you...!
"The mind sees and the mind hears... the rest are blind and deaf..." (Epicharmus, Greek poet from Kos: 530-440 BC) INTERPRETATION: The mind is the one that, essentially, sees and hears! And the autonomous bodily senses, without the mind, are blind and deaf... How...
Searching for 'fullness of life' (…) within the emptiness of life…!
"It is good to exist biologically, but to LIVE... is something else! And, of course, you LIVE... only in Christ!..." (Fotis Kontoglou, +1965) We must admit - and I am the first! - humbly and honestly, that... we 'live' conventionally, frivolously and aimlessly... in...
I was not always black-clad, nor always evil... but not always old either! I was young... with a pure soul and light-colored clothes. Then, I got lost in the fog... and when I 'found' myself, I was standing among GOOD-hearted beings... and I added the suffix 'BAD' to remind me of my lost innocence!... I came into life in the 60s, the time when the leaves turn green and the branches bloom... in a calm and beautiful refuge: facing the Thracian Sea. I learned letters - writing and reading - in the schools of the world, useless knowledge... that gave me neither fulfillment nor joy. When I craved the Knowledge of God (the 'experience' of Theogony...) I fled to Agionori... where I settled down and have been living for half a century now, studying in a Workshop of obedience-fasting-vigilance-prayer... and happily learning, from the beginning, the 'alphabet' of our living Faith. As I ascend my 7th decade, and heading towards the exit of life (and the entrance of life), I explore by 'mapping' my depths... knowing and healing my passions, within the spiritual hospitalization of the 'psychiatric hospital' (hospital for souls) of Manna-Church. Even though the 'snowstorm' of old age has already begun to lay the 'snow' on my head... my soul is 'rejuvenating' -with God- like all the souls of repentant Christ-worshippers, as I taste (without even deserving it!) the sweetness of Divine Love... writing about It insatiably...!
An Athonite KAKOgiros... from the Holy Mountain of KAKOgiros
The human soul… a candidate 'theotokos' womb!
"God is able to raise up children from these stones..." (Luke 3:8) INTERPRETATION: Almighty God has the creative power to raise up children... even from these stones! (Note: Here, Christ alludes to a 'targetable'...
The exaggerated 'semiology' of the name CHRIST...
"And gave Him the name which is above every name..." (Phil. 2:9) Christ -> Christian = a Name "above every (other) name..."! [ 1 ] Our name is... the title of our 'story'. Our life (no matter how much it may seem the same or similar... when compared externally with the...
Sacred memories, amidst the blizzard of memory...
"The righteous will be remembered forever..." (Psalm 111:6) INTERPRETATION: The righteous man, for his virtuous and humble life, is rewarded by God in return, with eternal, glorious remembrance & glory... Like today, December 5 - at the dawn of Saint Sava's Day - before...
Following the Christmas Star psychologically/mentally...
Our Holy Triune God is the only Creative Cause for the creation out of nothing... and the functional perfection of the spiritual (heavenly) World of the incorporeal Forces...! Also, for the uninterrupted creation and providential maintenance of the living (earthly) World of...
Leading an Athlete of Karteria into the sacred Light…
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... for you, Lord, are with me..." (Psalm 22:4)! INTERPRETATION: Even though I walk through the dark deserts, full of deadly dangers... I will not fear, my Lord, for you are with me...
Saranda Liturgy, a 'Rain of Mercy' of Divine Grace to all thirsty worlds...
The 15th of November of each Autumn - according to the Tradition of the Orthodox East - marks the beginning of the 40-day Lent of Christmas... but also the 1st Liturgical day, from the beginning of the Christmas 40-day liturgy, which is proposed as a period of spiritual...
Our EGO, in front of scales of comparisons... towards minor and major sizes!
"This small world, the great..." (Odysseas Elytis, Axion Esti...) Instead of a prologue. An imaginative... but absolutely realistic 'scenario': a desperate cry of mental despair... of a 'grain of stardust', searching within the universal 'framework' of...
Ignorance... a miserable and dark prison!
"Know the truth... and the truth will set you free!..." (John 8:32) INTERPRETATION: Only by knowing the truth... will you be freed from the terrible slavery of ignorance...! Humans, although beings with a 'god-related' origin... and a 'god-worthy' spiritual...
Stop and listen... inside you, around you...!
"The mind sees and the mind hears... the rest are blind and deaf..." (Epicharmus, Greek poet from Kos: 530-440 BC) INTERPRETATION: The mind is the one that, essentially, sees and hears! And the autonomous bodily senses, without the mind, are blind and deaf... How...
Searching for 'fullness of life' (…) within the emptiness of life…!
"It is good to exist biologically, but to LIVE... is something else! And, of course, you LIVE... only in Christ!..." (Fotis Kontoglou, +1965) We must admit - and I am the first! - humbly and honestly, that... we 'live' conventionally, frivolously and aimlessly... in...