John Sanidopoulos
On the Cross the Lord Jesus sat upon His Throne as what Pilate perceived to be the King of the Jews, but being rejected by the Jews, He in fact sat as the King of Glory, for His kingdom was not of this world.
Fr. Maximos (Constas)
Rating: 9.9|Votes: 16
As we begin to enter into the practice of the Jesus Prayer to engage the presence of the Spirit within ourselves we began to encounter both passing and deeper, recurring thoughts that work to distract us from calling upon the name of the Lord. What is the origin of these thoughts, and what do they show us about ourselves and how we interact with the world? How does the Church teach us to deal with distracting thought as they come to us, and make room for Christ in our hearts?
Georgios I. Mantzaridis
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Hesychasm is not merely a theological school or ecclesiastical system, but rather a phenomenon which transcends the various schools and systems. It is even more true that hesychasm is not restricted to a particular period in the history of monasticism, such as that of the fourteenth century, when the erudite monk, Barlaam the Calabrian, attacked the Athonite monks and provoked the well-known hesychast dispute. Hesychasm is the cultivation of the tranquility which is the enduring characteristic of Orthodox monasticism. But what is this tranquility and of what does it consist?
Fr. Edward Rommen
Rating: 2|Votes: 1
Perfection is the notion of having been fully realized or completed, an entity in which there is no longer any need of becoming. God is eternally perfect and thus absolutely good. Finite beings are perfectible, but their perfection can only take place gradually. Thus, the perfect is always good, but good is not always perfect. So how can these general ideas about goodness be mapped onto the Church? In what sense is the Church good?
Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis
Rating: 6.5|Votes: 11
The blood of Christ, both His shedding it for us, and us partaking of us, is what allows us to “pass over” from death to eternal life. It is the only way by which we can do this, the only thing that will spare us from death. We still keep Pascha (the new Passover) as a feast to the Lord.