10 Jan 2024 at 3:50pm
When we talk about Science, we usually mean things that we can see, measure and touch. But when we talk about Orthodoxy faith, divinity, then the measure is immeasurable, the image is bright and bathed in light, the word is the beginning and the e...
28 Dec 2023 at 10:20am
POST-HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
International Scientific Conference
PHAICON 24
Athens, Greece, Nov. 18 – 21, 2024
Co-organizers
Saint Maxim the Greek Institute
Office of the Orthodox Church at the European Union
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Apo...
27 Dec 2023 at 1:04pm
Life in the bosom of the Holy Church can be likened to a continuous cycle of feasts, that is, of the spiritual commemoration of eternal events. The enemy of our souls, the devil, fights against us by treacherously and relentlessly introducing his ...
25 Dec 2023 at 5:18pm
According to the Proto-Gospel of James, Righteous Joseph was away for the summer doing construction work while the infant Christ was growing in the womb of Mary. In the autumn, Joseph returned home to find his espoused wife seven months pregnant.
...24 Dec 2023 at 5:20pm
Together with the hymnographer, we wonder profoundly, are at a loss and astonished at the incomprehensible mystery of Christ’s incarnation, which natural time has brought us to celebrate once again this year.
What is really beyond understanding, o...
28 Oct 2023 at 5:20pm
‘Right’ and ‘Left’ don’t only have to do with political alignments. The terms were also used to define two categories of temptation in the spiritual life. Indeed, because it’s less perceptible, the temptation ‘from the right’ was considered the mo...
21 Oct 2023 at 5:10pm
On the 6th Sunday of Luke, the great Redeemer of the human race, while He was in the land of the Gadarenes, opposite Galilee, relieves, redeems and liberates a man from a terrible threat. The ‘sick’ servant in today’s Gospel is suffering from a sp...
20 Oct 2023 at 5:09pm
‘Therefore become merciful, as your Father is merciful’.
If we read the literature of the ancient Greek sages and, indeed, that of wise people from all over the world, we see that, in their efforts to define what is just, proper, legitimate and go...
18 Oct 2023 at 5:20pm
How often do we do something considered spiritual- prayer, church attendance, fasting, some alms-giving- and think we’ve become ‘Saint Anthony’. Because we compare ourselves… to ourselves. We ourselves are the criterion. It’s like somebody going o...
17 Oct 2023 at 5:20pm
Their mockery comes from a malicious heart; let your smile be without any badness. Mockery sits well with ignorance; a smile is more suited to knowledge. Through their mockery they’re increasing the value of your prayer before the eternal Judge. B...