January 31st, 2020
January 23rd, 2020
“A LION OF ORTHODOXY”: THEOLOGIAN, ASCETIC, ANTI-ECUMENIST; In memoriam, Protpresbyter George Metallinos
By Athanasius Zoitakis
Fr. George Metallinos is and will be remembered among those still struggling in this world as a great Churchman, a faithful man, a confessor and expositor of Orthodoxy, an unparalleled expert on Orthodoxy and Greece under the Turkish Yoke, and a spiritual man of great stature, nobility and refinement. I was very blessed to come to know Fr. George in the early 2000s and work besides him drafting several...
June 18th, 2019
The Unbroken Continuity of the Roman Empire
Gregory Heers
Livy, the Roman historian that lived around the time of Christ, wrote, ‘I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours, or richer in good citizens and noble deeds’ (Early History 30). It is therefore lamentable that in the common mind this most glorious empire should be endowed with an end so ignoble and unworthy of mention. According to any typical history-book, the Roman...
April 1st, 2019
The Boundaries of Salvation: The ‘Two Natures’ of Communion in Christ
Lecture by Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church
Blacktown NSW, Sydney, Australia
Sunday, March 31 (18), 2019
March 31st, 2019
Becoming One With Christ: The Spiritual Presuppositions of Participation in the Mysteries
A Lecture By Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Alexis the Man of God Orthodox Church
Alexandria, Sydney, Australia
Saturday, March 30 (17), 2019
QUOTE FOR CONSIDERATION:
St. Symeon the New Theologian on the Presuppositions to Participation in the Holy...
March 28th, 2019
PHOTO REPORT: Lecture Delivered to the Clergy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand
Lecture Entitled: “The Church and Secularism: Standing Before the Spirit of Antichrist”
PHOTO REPORT
LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY ASSEMBLY OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
I am presently in Australia delivering lectures to the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese at the invitation and with...
March 27th, 2019
PHOTO REPORT: Lecture Delivered to the Clergy Assembly of the Australian Diocese of ROCOR
Lecture Entitled: “The Boundaries of the Church and the Demonic Method of Adulteration of the Faith in Ecumenism.”
PHOTO REPORT
LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY ASSEMBLY OF THE DIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND of the RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA
“The Boundaries of the Church and the Demonic Method of Adulteration of the Faith in Ecumenism.”
On Tuesday, March 26 (13), in addition to lectures I am delivering to the faithful of the...
March 23rd, 2019
St. Gregory Palamas: A Guide of Orthodoxy vis-a-vis the West and Roman Catholicism
By Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church
Brisbane, Australia
Saturday, March 23 (10), 2019
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Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God: The Spiritual Priorities of Pilgrims on the Path to Heaven
By Archpriest Peter Heers
Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Stephan the Protomartyr * Rooty Hill, Australia
Friday, March 22 (9), 2019
...March 21st, 2019
Sacred Tradition is the Very Church
By Saint Nektarios of Aegina
“Sacred Tradition is the very Church; without the Sacred Tradition the Church does not exist. Those who deny the Sacred Tradition deny the Church and the preaching of the Apostles.
Before the writing of the Holy Scriptures, that is, of the sacred texts of the Gospels, the Acts and the Epistles of the Apostles, and before they were spread to the churches of the world, the Church was based on...
March 9th, 2019
The Orthodox Ethos: Its Distortion, and Our Acquisition and Realization of It
Lecture by Archpriest Peter Heers
March 7th, 2019
NEW LECTURE: UNDERSTANDING SIN AND FORGIVENESS (+ Q & A)
By Archpriest Peter Heers
May 25th, 2018
How our world stopped being Christian: anatomy of a collapse
Review by Jean-Claude Larchet of Guillaume Cuchet’s book Comment notre monde a cessé d’être chrétien. Anatomie d’un effondrement [How our world stopped being Christian: anatomy of a collapse] (Paris: Seuil, 2018), 276 pp.
For half a century, many authors have noted the spectacular decadence of Catholicism in France and more widely in Europe, and have worried about it: Louis Bouyer in The Decomposition of Catholicism (1968), Serge Bonnet in À hue et à dia. The Avatars of Clericalism in the Fifth Republic (1973), Michel de Certeau and Jean-Marie Domenach in Christianity Exploded (1974), Paul...
March 19th, 2018
Heavenly Psalmody from Mt. Athos: The Universal Glory / Την Παγκόσμιον Δόξαν
Blessed Elder Ephraim of Xeropotamou / ο Μακαριστός Γέρων Εφραίμ Ξηροποταμινός
March 19th, 2018
Journey to Life: Baptized into Christ in the Orthodox Church
The Miraculous Journey from Lutheranism, through eastern religions, to Orthodoxy
The miraculous journey from Lutheranism, through eastern religions, to the Orthodox Church.
This story has so much to teach us all – but especially Orthodox bishops and priests. In this video one sees the marvelous response of God to one man’s determined and pained search for spiritual health and healing and his simple and humble acceptance of the providence of God.
Seraphim was born,...
