By Andreas C Chrysafis March, 2015 (No 70) © The geopolitical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean have become like shifting sand; land is gained and lands are lost; souls vanquish and lives perish at each day’s passing! With the Assad ‘regime change” and Jihad atrocities in Syria and Iraq, stability its shaky to say the least. Evidently, accordingly to military …
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Wounded by Love, By St Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia We should be zealots. A zealot is a person who loves Christ with all his soul and who serves his fellow men in Christ’s name. Love for God and for a neighbor; they go together and could not be divorced. Passion, yearning and tears along with contrition, not for a purpose, but …
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Dear Mode of Life, I would like to thank you for your article on the fullness Church iconography (https://modeoflife.org/iconography-a-statement-of-image/), I found the article wonderfully stimulating, and almost overwhelming in the riches of tradition and theology in which it describes. My own congregation is a Protestant church which is dedicated to Mark the Evangelist, we have placed an icon of St Mark in …
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Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses”. Proverbs 10:12 Every day I wake up and stare at the new illegal Israeli settlement right in front of my kitchen window. It has been a very different life as a Greek-American living in a Palestinian Christian village that my husband loves so much. This morning after listening …
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INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS Not too recently, the Neos Kosmos English Edition published a rather tedious article about Valentine’s Day by a certain Nelly Skoufatoglou. The article in question, interviewed various members of Melbourne’s Greek community about how they viewed or celebrated “Valentine’s Day”. And of course one got an appreciation of differing views, most of which expressed the thought that Valentine’s Day …
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MPS VOTE AGAINST EXPLICIT BAN ON SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONS By Simon Caldwell – Monday, 23 February 2015 Fiona Bruce’s amendment to the Serious Crime Bill has been voted down by the Commons An attempt to make the sex-selective abortions of baby girls an explicitly criminal offence has been thrown out by the House of Commons. An amendment to the Serious Crime Bill, tabled by Fiona …
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Armenia has arguably produced more martyrs than anywhere else, given that the victims of the genocide were killed in hatred of the Faith By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith – Wednesday, 4 February 2015 Early February is a good time, liturgically speaking. On Monday we celebrated the lovely feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, when candles were blessed, marking the …
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MODE OF LIFE INTRODUCTION Dearly beloved readers, we post this selection of articles from the British Roman Catholic online site “The Catholic Herald”, as it raises a very serious issue regarding the current discussion and legalisation of Three-way IVF within the United Kingdom. I suspect, that this issue of three-parent babies will become another one of these bio-ethical issues that …
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Introductory Remarks What can be said? Simply it is a pity that those political leaders within the West and the Arab Gulf countries who are responsible for supporting Jihadist scum like ISIS are not its victims…..But if history is anything to go by, such criminal acts do not go unpunished or remain isolated and confined to their particular scene. And if …
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Let us not then despair of our safety, but let us pray; let us make invocation; let us supplicate; let us go on embassy to the King that is above with many tears! We have this fast, too, as an ally, and as an assistant in this good intercession. Therefore, as when the winter is over and the summer is …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.