Fr. Peter discusses the virtue and vice of silence. 

Postcards from Greece

Blessed and Cursed Silence

Fr. Peter reminds us why the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council were important, arguing that the greatest threat to the Orthodox Church is the blurring of its boundaries. 

Boundaries of Salvation

Fr. Peter speaks on the 'PNEVMA of PYTHON at St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, California. 

Sunday of the Healing of the Blind Man

Fr. Peter takes us through the story of the meeting of Christ with the Samaritan Women, how the Master took her step by step from earth to heaven, morality to spirituality, religion to revelation. 

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Fr. Peter answers questions about Elder Paisios at St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Elder Paisios Q&A

Fr. Peter speaks at St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Atlanta, Georgia, about the life and ministry of Elder Paisios of Mount Athos. Click here to see a video of the talk. 

Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

Fr. Peter announces a number of talks he will be giving during a prolonged stay in the U.S. this spring, most of which have to do with the book The Life of Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain. 

Coming to America

Fr. Peter reminds us of the essentials and the criterion of salvation; neither a moral life, nor a "religious life," nor love of "man" will save us. Rather, salvation comes to those who love the Truth and give their life for Him. 

The Love of Truth as the Key to Salvation

What is the Orthodox response to the new "citizen card" and the events and developments surrounding it? How should we live and what should be our stance vis-a-vis these "signs of the times"? It is an issue of personal religious freedom of conscience and a matter of confessing the Faith and the name of Christ. Listen as Fr. Peter relates the major points from a speech recently given to a large gathering in Thessaloniki by an Elder from Mount Athos, who is also one of the twenty abbots on Athos. 

“The Citizen’s Card” and Orthodox Opposition in Greece: Part 2

Fourteen Bishops are dead set against it. The Holy Synod is suspicious and has grave reservations. The Holy Mountain of Athos urges the government to cease and desist and encourages the faithful to refuse it. What is happening in Greece? Listen as Fr. Peter explains to us why so many Greek citizens are up in arms, calling for resistance to tyranny and vigilance before "the signs of the times." 

“The Citizen’s Card” and Orthodox Opposition in Greece: Part 1

Fr. Peter continues his series on life in Greece with a brief description of the major events and important traditions and customs that take place in his mountain village Petrokerasa. 

Life in Greece Part 3: Holy Week, Pascha, and Renewal Week in Greece

In this postcard, Fr. Peter stops to examine the previous Sunday's gospel, through which the Church is preparing us to accept the glory of the Lord, His crucifixion, by directing us to divest ourselves of the desire to seek worldly glory. Fr. Peter explains how worldliness, worldly glory, or secularization, is the spirit of the evil one, of the Antichrist, and our mortal enemy as Christians, who want to be glorified with the Lord. He also touches upon our freedom in Christ, the wrong teaching of predestination, those who have true authority in the Church, and more. 

Going up to Jerusalem, to the Glory of the Lord

In this podcast, Fr. Peter takes a short break from his series on life in Greece to address a question raised by a listener in Moscow: Why did Fr. Peter refer to Fr. Daniel Sysoev as a "New Martyr" when he has yet to be officially declared one by the hierarchy of the Church of Russia? Fr. Peter takes this opportunity to briefly address the issue of authority in the Church and who it is that first and foremost recognizes the holiness of the saints—the people or the hierarchy? 

Sainthood

Fr. Peter continues his series featuring descriptions of life in Greece with this explanation of what transpires at the average Greek funeral. 

Life in Greece 2: A Funeral in a Greek Village

Fr. Peter begins a new series featuring descriptions of life in Greece with this experience of a recent all-night Vigil he attended on Mt. Athos. 

Life in Greece 1: A Vigil on Mount Athos

An intriguing glimpse at Orthodox life in Greece - Living the Christian Faith in the Church of Greece

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Postcards from Greece

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