I must, of course, begin by expressing my profound gratitude to the Athens Academy. It is indeed a great honour to have been given this opportunity to set out not so much my opinions but my inner thoughts borne of experience, questioning and searching. This is a time when many speak about the “trans­mutation” of values, this is a historic …

“But wisdom is justified by all her children” (Lk 7:35) Children’s upbringing is a difficult deed but the difficulty does not exempt parents from the responsibility. The future of society is placed in the hands of the children. These children however, the citizens of tomorrow, are moulded today by our hands. One wonders, have all of us fully comprehended this truth? …

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”     –    Aristotle ”God is love; whoever lives in love, lives in God and God in him” (1 John 4:16) The holy Church celebrates the memory of the Evangelist John the Theologian on the 26th of September, the essential preacher of love – …

‘’…if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor’’ (Gal 2:17-18). We destroy our sins via confession to our spiritual father, and yet we find ourselves building again those same …

St Niketas the Goth: Historical Background The difficulty in acquiring knowledge or an understanding about the life or times of St. Niketas, stems in part from the turbulent era into which he was born in. A period which historians sometimes term the Dark Ages due to the lack of extensive or surviving written documentation which could help us better understand …

Today’s Gospel concerns the young man who asked Christ, what it is necessary to do in order to have eternal life. Our Lord tells him first of all to keep all the commandments which were given by divine inspiration to Moses. However, our Lord sums up those commandments, by giving only two commandments: ‘Love God with all your heart and …

For many Western Christians, icons seem to be the type of art that has been dismissed as insignificant within the worship space and liturgical environment, because of their apparent lack of realism. However, for Orthodox Christians the icon has played a significant role within the liturgy and its theology, since the sixth century.

What does it mean to forgive? Should we expect forgiveness from God, if we do not offer it to others? Sisters and brothers, in today’s Gospel lesson, Jesus told a parable about forgiveness. A certain person having been forgiven a debt of a large sum of money went immediately to one who owed him a very small sum, grabbed him …

The musings of academic, so-called theologians, tire me, for they speak to the mind but not to the entire being of the human person. One wonders whether they have constructed a new tower of Babel, for they are excited by the different elucidations of the Faith and its spiritual life that have occurred throughout the ages, as if they were …

Herman Middleton first appeared in Road to Emmaus in Winter 2003, when he described his life as a theology student in Thessalonica, Greece.[1] Since then, he has received his Master’s Degree and published what has quickly become an English-language Orthodox classic, “Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit” – short lives and excerpts from the writings of contemporary Greek spiritual fathers. …