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MAN AND HIS FALL By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, from “Entering the Orthodox Church—the Catechism and Baptism of Adults. ” As we analyze the Parable of the Prodigal Son, let us go on to make a man-centered analysis of this parable. It will show us the true value of man and what true life is….
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςThis interview with his Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou was published in the journal “Καθ’ οδόν” by the Community Youth of the Sacred Metropolis of Limassol, and as the reader will see, the questions cover a large part of the Christology of Christmas. Question: The word Χριστούγεννα (Greek word for “Christmas”)…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςWe Orthodox live Christ within the Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy is a work of God. We say: “Time is a creation of the Lord”. Among other things it means now is the time for God to act. Christ liturgises, we live with Christ. The…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςBy Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos In many of his texts St. Gregory speaks of man’s freedom of choice, which is not abolished by God, and also about the perpetuity of Hell. Both these positions of his remove every notion of the theory of the restoration of all things as affirmed by Origen. In…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςThe Problem of Suffering by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos In today’s turbulent society there is no one who does not face suffering in his life and taste the bitter cup of afflictions. We see people in distress, miserable, tormented, prostrate under the heavy burden of suffering. Their faces are downcast, but their hearts even more so. They are tormented and…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςBy Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos After purification of the heart and illumination of the nous comes glorification, which is the third stage of the journey towards perfection. Glorification is linked with theoria, which is the vision of the glory of God. When we say glorification we mean vision or theoria of the uncreated energy of…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςThe Church has two fundamental doctrines with regard to the creation. The first is that God created the universe out of non-being and not from allegedly pre-existing ideas. The second is that God governs, maintains and provides for the creation through His uncreated energy and not by means of created laws. The energy…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςTHE FOLLOWING IS ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE UNCREATED ENERGIES OF GOD by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos A contemporary monastic of the Orthodox Christian Church in Greece, Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, is a prolific writer and an expert on Saint Gregory Palamas and his teachings of the Essence of God and the Uncreated Energies of God. …
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςIt is necessary first to define the terms: “orthodox” and “spirituality”. We cannot speak about “Orthodox spirituality” unless we know exactly what we mean by these two words. This is what the Holy Fathers of the Church have done. In his exceptional book “The Fountain of knowledge”, and more specifically in the sections entitled “Philosophical…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςWe divide people into monks and married people, and life into monastic and married, with the result that we praise the monastic life, which we regard as better and more suited to keeping God’s commandments, while we disparage married life as not suitable for the practice of God’s will. Indeed we know very well that…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσηςHOLY PRIESTHOOD & SPIRITUAL THERAPY By Bishop Hierotheos Vlachos, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlassios; excerpt from his highly esteemed book “Orthodox Psychotherapy. ” The priest has a double task. One is to perform the sacraments and the other is to heal people so that they can worthily…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσης“The Church lives in the context of Pentecost. Illumination — which is the aim of Baptism and is assumed to be identical with Chrismation, as Chrismation is illumination — is the heart of the Mysteries, and Pentecost is the heart of the heart. The two go together, because anyone who reaches illumination, when and…
Συνέχιση ανάγνωσης(Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) After Christ’s Ascension into heaven, as He had affirmed, on the fiftieth day after His Resurrection and the tenth after His Ascension. He sent the Holy Spirit, Who proceeds from the Father.Christ Himself had announced to the Disciples beforehand the sending of the Holy Spirit: “And I will pray the Father,…
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