Part Two - 2 - Two treatises on virginity
In 1752 AD, Wetstein discovered in the library of “The Remonstrants” in Amsterdam a text in Syriac by Syric Peschitta of two letters addressed to the celibate […]
Personality, Athanasius and his theological method
Chapter Two: More about Athanasius’s Personality and His Personal Relationship with Christ Athanasius’ heart was filled with intense love for Christ and he was considered like Paul.
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Orthodox Virtues
Man’s true nature and true life do not emanate from earthly data, but from the Triune God Himself, because man is the image of God. If we want to seek man’s true life, we must draw near to God and savor His life. Only life close to God is “natural,” that is, life that corresponds to man’s true nature. As for distance from God, it is “unnatural.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Our Current Homeland
The Word of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, entered the heart of the world, sanctified it, and made it live in a new era or a new age, the age of the Kingdom of God. The Lord Himself confirmed that the Kingdom of God does not pertain to the future alone, but that the believing Christian lives in it from now on. But the present time is different from the comprehensive Kingdom of God, and is only a picture or introduction to it. The Kingdom will shine in its full glory in the last times, at the coming of the Lord.
Nectarios the Wonderworker, Bishop of the Five Cities in Libya
Saint Nektarios, whose name was Anastas Kefalas, was born in Southern Thrace on October 1, 1846 AD. He grew up in a large and poor family, and his mother and grandmother were poor
Villarita, Mother, Abbess
The Annunciation Monastery in Ufa is one of the most famous monasteries due to the high spiritual status of its nuns. This was the fruit of its founder, Mother Villaretta,
Great Holy Week: Holy Wednesday - why this extravagance?
Holy Wednesday shows us two different images that indicate conflicting psychological states: the image of the woman who poured perfume on Jesus’ head
Theophylactus of Nicomedia, our venerable father among the saints
Theophilectus was born around 765 AD to a humble family of commoners. He left his homeland as a young man and went to the royal city, where he was an imperial advisor at that time.
Saint Theodosius, head of monasteries
Theodosius was born in a village in Cappadocia called Mogarisos to pious parents, where his mother became a monk in her old age, and her son Theodosius became her father.
Theodorus the Studite the Confessor
His upbringing and times Saint Theodoros was born in Constantinople in the year 759 AD, in the bosom of aristocracy. His time was characterized by a brutal war
Theophanes the Recluse, the righteous saint
The Russian Church canonized him in 1988 AD on the occasion of the millennium feast of the Baptism of the Russian people. He is rightly considered one of the most prominent makers of the spiritual renaissance
Benedict the Great
The basic reference for the biography of Saint Benedict (in Arabic, Mubarak), whom the Church celebrates on the fourteenth of March, was prepared by the writer.