Since the foundation of the Church, the fallen world has been striving to take over her, to distort her saving truth, to bring her to its fallen standards, to weaken her saving power. This is called secularization in our ecclesiastical language and is...
Lambros Skontzos
HOLY NEW MARTYR ANTHONY THE ATHENIUS
The glorious city of Athens is not only famous for its pre-Christian past, but also for its later Christian one. From the first Christian years it raised great saints. In the dark years of Turkish slavery it also raised many New Martyrs. One...
SAINT IDIDORUS OF PELUSIO: THE PHILOSOPHER ASCETIC OF THE CHURCH
Egypt was the cradle of monasticism in early Christian times. Great ascetic figures brightened Egyptian monasticism. One of them was Saint Isidore the Pelusiotis. A truly great personality of Orthodox monasticism, who combined...
HOLY APOSTLE TIMOTHY: THE FAITHFUL DISCIPLE AND FOLLOWER OF PAUL
A noble figure of the early Church was the holy apostle Timothy, the faithful disciple, follower and valuable collaborator of the apostle Paul. We get most of the information about him from the holy book of the Acts of the Apostles. He was born...
SAINT JOHN THE FOREIGNER: THE GREATEST AMONG THOSE BORN OF WOMEN
Saint John the Baptist belongs to the group of great prophets and confessors of our faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself described him as the greatest man who appeared in the world: "Amen I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist...
THE GREAT KING: THE SUPREME FATHER OF OUR CHURCH
Both history and the Church have been sparing in characterizing the "Great". Few received the title "Great". One of them was the leading saint of our Church, Basil the Great, who deservedly received this title, because he stamped his personality...
RATIONAL AND REASONABLE NEW YEAR'S CONSIDERATIONS
By the grace of the holy Triune God, we enter once again into the new year of His goodness. We "step" on the "step" of the new year. In every reasonable person, along with the hopes and expectations for the new year, these days fill his soul...
THE HOLY KING OF MYTH AND HISTORY
(Reference to the homonymous elf - a caricature of the holidays) The Twelve Days of Christmas, as the days of the holidays from Christmas to Epiphany are called, constitute an important festive milestone in the consciousness of Orthodox modern Greeks. For those...
THEN THE CREW OF TIME CAME
(Historical approach to the Divine Incarnation) The Incarnation of God the Word constitutes the greatest event in human history, dividing it into the pre-Christ and post-Christ eras and changing the flow of historical events and the course of the world, from...
SAINT EUGENIA THE HOLY VIRGIN MARTYR
A category of holy women of our Church is that of the Holy Virgin Martyrs. These are Christian women who had promised lifelong virginity and suffered torture for their faith. One of them was the Holy Virgin Martyr Eugenia. ...
Lambros Skontzos
FROM THE “GOD” OF LOVE TO “SAINT” VALENTINE!
Since the foundation of the Church, the fallen world has been striving to take over her, to distort her saving truth, to bring her to its fallen standards, to weaken her saving power. This is called secularization in our ecclesiastical language and is...
HOLY NEW MARTYR ANTHONY THE ATHENIUS
The glorious city of Athens is not only famous for its pre-Christian past, but also for its later Christian one. From the first Christian years it raised great saints. In the dark years of Turkish slavery it also raised many New Martyrs. One...
SAINT IDIDORUS OF PELUSIO: THE PHILOSOPHER ASCETIC OF THE CHURCH
Egypt was the cradle of monasticism in early Christian times. Great ascetic figures brightened Egyptian monasticism. One of them was Saint Isidore the Pelusiotis. A truly great personality of Orthodox monasticism, who combined...
HOLY APOSTLE TIMOTHY: THE FAITHFUL DISCIPLE AND FOLLOWER OF PAUL
A noble figure of the early Church was the holy apostle Timothy, the faithful disciple, follower and valuable collaborator of the apostle Paul. We get most of the information about him from the holy book of the Acts of the Apostles. He was born...
SAINT JOHN THE FOREIGNER: THE GREATEST AMONG THOSE BORN OF WOMEN
Saint John the Baptist belongs to the group of great prophets and confessors of our faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself described him as the greatest man who appeared in the world: "Amen I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist...
THE GREAT KING: THE SUPREME FATHER OF OUR CHURCH
Both history and the Church have been sparing in characterizing the "Great". Few received the title "Great". One of them was the leading saint of our Church, Basil the Great, who deservedly received this title, because he stamped his personality...
RATIONAL AND REASONABLE NEW YEAR'S CONSIDERATIONS
By the grace of the holy Triune God, we enter once again into the new year of His goodness. We "step" on the "step" of the new year. In every reasonable person, along with the hopes and expectations for the new year, these days fill his soul...
THE HOLY KING OF MYTH AND HISTORY
(Reference to the homonymous elf - a caricature of the holidays) The Twelve Days of Christmas, as the days of the holidays from Christmas to Epiphany are called, constitute an important festive milestone in the consciousness of Orthodox modern Greeks. For those...
THEN THE CREW OF TIME CAME
(Historical approach to the Divine Incarnation) The Incarnation of God the Word constitutes the greatest event in human history, dividing it into the pre-Christ and post-Christ eras and changing the flow of historical events and the course of the world, from...
SAINT EUGENIA THE HOLY VIRGIN MARTYR
A category of holy women of our Church is that of the Holy Virgin Martyrs. These are Christian women who had promised lifelong virginity and suffered torture for their faith. One of them was the Holy Virgin Martyr Eugenia. ...











