Spiritual travels in Greece: Νοεμβρίου 2024

Κυριακή 10 Νοεμβρίου 2024

Actress Juliette Binoche Acclaims Saint Paisios the Athonite and Byzantine Iconography In Award Speech

The 65th Thessaloniki Film Festival welcomed two of the most prolific stars of contemporary cinema, Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, on Friday, November 1st 2024, at the Olympion theater. The two renowned actors received the Festival’s honorary Golden Alexander award prior to the screening of the monumental film *The English Patient* (1996), which marked their second collaboration (their first was in 1992's *Wuthering Heights*) and garnered Juliette Binoche an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Ralph Fiennes a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. ...

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Saint Paisios the Athonite

Greek Television Series on the Life of Saint Paisios (Episodes 1 - 3)

New Saints, Orthodox Teachers, Orthodox Way (tags)

Εγγραφή σε: Αναρτήσεις (Atom)

Greece is not just a land of sunlit coasts, beautiful mountainous regions or picturesque traditional villages…. Nor is it the homeland of Pericles and Aristotle, of Odysseus, Theseus and Jason. It is also a land where for 2000 years, the authentic spiritual tradition and legacy of Christianity has been preserved intact, the way it was taught by Jesus Christ, propagated to other nations by His disciples (the Apostles) and observed for 20 centuries by innumerable thousands of Christians – men, women, and even children – who attained self-awareness, profound wisdom, spiritual balance, peace and union with their fellow-man, with all the creatures of the world, and naturally with Jesus Christ Himself. Even in our day and age, one can encounter such people in Greece, provided one keeps open the eyes of their soul… (Photo: St Sofia, Monemvasia, Greece). Click on the photo.

HOLY FIRE - The Miracle of the Light of the Resurrection at the Tomb of Jesus

Seventy authors —fourteen French, nine Englishmen, seven Byzantine Greeks, six Germans, five Armenians, five Muslim Arabs, four Italians, four Persians, three Russians, three Icelanders, two Egyptians, two Chaldeans, one Syrian, one Moldavian, one Ethiopian, one Belgian, one Austrian and one Swiss— describe the greatest miracle of the Christian world: the Holy Fire (i.e., the Light of the Resurrection of Christ) which appears every Holy Saturday at the tomb of Jesus, a few hours before the celebration of his resurrection. Furthermore, the scientific measurements that were taken in the tomb of Jesus on Holy Saturday in 2008 by Associate Professor Antrey Volkov, confirm the descent of the Holy Fire and reveal three phenomena, which he himself characterizes as “incredible and entirely inexplicable.” (Click on the image)