tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31259675765064185352026-03-14T07:59:57.561-04:00"God gave science to human beings, so that we would praise Him for the miracles He performs." (Wisdom of Sirach 38:6)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-31219442763393009992026-02-10T14:07:00.002-05:002026-02-10T14:31:39.548-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcZDuYVek_VN3Rt7BEZbA9sKjGLI4N2yuW8WPzxD8RShrFo_KPKGBucc3swMx4uFlciCFfG0PclM_tqDaLY9B1poHLI0GYDIAfmWccKDzx0xdP07HeSl8_mwyebvOTNkCSoOWkXEJk0RnKIL_rSM6iK5fdJZexzjo3ruhixAAOkaMNbDTujPn7hJjoJj7/s750/nafpaktou-750x375.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcZDuYVek_VN3Rt7BEZbA9sKjGLI4N2yuW8WPzxD8RShrFo_KPKGBucc3swMx4uFlciCFfG0PclM_tqDaLY9B1poHLI0GYDIAfmWccKDzx0xdP07HeSl8_mwyebvOTNkCSoOWkXEJk0RnKIL_rSM6iK5fdJZexzjo3ruhixAAOkaMNbDTujPn7hJjoJj7/w640-h320/nafpaktou-750x375.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000;">About his book titled <i>Biotechnology, Bioethics, Biotheology</i>, which was recently published, the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou, Mr. Hierotheos, speaks to “Orthodox Truth” (2/2/26). In the book, in addition to the bioethical and biotheological issue, a brief update is given on the developments in the field of biotechnology and the problems that arise.<br><br>In the interview that follows, the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos refers, among other things, to the prospects for dialogue between the Church and Science, to the research work of scientists as well as to the searches of young people regarding Bioethics. He particularly emphasizes that “Orthodox Theology must go beyond humanistic Bioethics, which connects Humanism with the Enlightenment and globalization, and offer an Orthodox Biotheology.”</span><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span></span></b></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2026/02/biotechnology-bioethics-and-biotheology.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-79403415873815424842026-01-02T17:07:00.005-05:002026-01-02T17:07:34.707-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjli8ur__bsyorOmxO0nGN7StstTRFRa19vggxEakDui8f3VB4DC3Bbms7outk40h-QyCgE7JpNBdCjJSVRdTXWIHdZiiIqKOrjoTjmg8Oeonvaj1Zn4w4NSgrtXInQg7d_EYk47Ms0yjtTwDT1D4fTCJBpwSDDLmW69DYG0iTggyr5WMTvd_wpy7vMl1tn/s445/justin-popovi-5fc6f081-4198-4e00-8601-b5d744d09e6-resize-750.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjli8ur__bsyorOmxO0nGN7StstTRFRa19vggxEakDui8f3VB4DC3Bbms7outk40h-QyCgE7JpNBdCjJSVRdTXWIHdZiiIqKOrjoTjmg8Oeonvaj1Zn4w4NSgrtXInQg7d_EYk47Ms0yjtTwDT1D4fTCJBpwSDDLmW69DYG0iTggyr5WMTvd_wpy7vMl1tn/w315-h400/justin-popovi-5fc6f081-4198-4e00-8601-b5d744d09e6-resize-750.jpeg" width="315"></a></div><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> God-Human Development (Evolution)</b><br><br>By St. Justin Popovich<br><br><i>Letter to a Student (Nov. 19, 1968)</i><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>My most precious child in the Lord. You wish me to tell you what questions the “Theological Circle” concerns itself with. Here they are: can the scientific understanding of the evolution of the world be reconciled with the Orthodox feeling and consciousness founded on Divine Revelation? How did the Holy Fathers speak about this? Is there any need at all for such a reconciliation?<br><br>Briefly. New Testament anthropology is inseparable from Old Testament anthropology. The good news of the Old Testament is this: man is the image of God. The good news of the New Testament is this: the God-man is the image of man. The heavenly, divine, immortal, eternal, and unchangeable human element in man is the image of God: the God-likeness. This God-likeness of the human being has been disfigured by voluntary human sin, by his union with the devil through sin and its consequence — death. God therefore became man “in order to renew once again His own image, which had been corrupted by passions.” God therefore became man, and remained in the human world as the God-man, as the Church, in order to give man — the image of God — all the necessary means: the Holy Mysteries and the holy virtues, by which the disfigured yet God-like human being, within the God-Human Body of the Church, might grow into a perfect man, into the measure of the full stature of Christ (the fullness of Christ). This is God-human development (evolution) of man; this is God-human anthropology.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2026/01/god-human-development-or-evolution-st.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-268723386582663292025-11-19T16:42:00.007-05:002025-11-19T17:01:29.132-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymrS0e1YvfZ9vsGA0VrddBPtbrZFWIB7cFltpX6zoU4jbScqQ8lu0wJKfebQa_vWYMSP01Y3hpF3b7hhU0vXdeqL8mYa_8Y02lgbad81K_LcZh9ifpaAsbgzw6n2U_G8E6lTDjS9B8DxuayfAP6u_T-WGOyva03QuFTL0UNTS4a84lDNfghgOlF7YYFKw/s800/c224b199cc14230c1f8c24caff4fff1f_XL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymrS0e1YvfZ9vsGA0VrddBPtbrZFWIB7cFltpX6zoU4jbScqQ8lu0wJKfebQa_vWYMSP01Y3hpF3b7hhU0vXdeqL8mYa_8Y02lgbad81K_LcZh9ifpaAsbgzw6n2U_G8E6lTDjS9B8DxuayfAP6u_T-WGOyva03QuFTL0UNTS4a84lDNfghgOlF7YYFKw/w538-h640/c224b199cc14230c1f8c24caff4fff1f_XL.jpg" width="538"></a></div><br></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/11/science-and-religion-chapter-3-st-luke.html">Chapter 3 (a)</a></i><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapter 3 (b) </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we consider religion in its essence — that is, as an inner experience, as adoration of God and communion with Him — we must agree that science not only does not contradict religion, but, moreover, science leads to religion. If we do not limit ourselves to the painstaking collection of facts, like the learned specialist Wagner in Goethe&#39;s work, but, like Faust, give free rein to the entire human thirst for knowledge, which strives to comprehend the mysteries of existence and to possess these mysteries, then we will inevitably arrive at religion. And it is precisely science that proves its necessity. It poses the very same questions that religion answers. By the law of causality, science leads us to the First Cause of the world, and religion answers who is this creative First Cause not only of the world but also of man. It tells us that we descend from God (and not from apes). Science reveals the eternal Logos of being, which conditions this harmony. Science leads us to the need for some rational meaning in life, some higher purpose for life. Religion answers – it is GOD.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/11/science-and-religion-chapter-3-b-st.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-84878968667691460562025-11-11T15:54:00.006-05:002025-11-19T17:01:08.087-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuOdyLb-PWHrz80oxqrxrgXwB0rDaGF8LvvvObNn2FXuu-LB4jnyZwPrBtL3BdAGQYbw3dJOTaHPydOH_Q8_DxJ6SoK20Q_KAAIpaqetIbjEG36dXuDMAI5U6R8eyHlzC_xZYC7rP6w5m4w8DJ4z36ClQ1wVV5QA57sJFLAvioyobb-1a3MLP8V5cm-Fn/s640/img_20240610_135617_249.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuOdyLb-PWHrz80oxqrxrgXwB0rDaGF8LvvvObNn2FXuu-LB4jnyZwPrBtL3BdAGQYbw3dJOTaHPydOH_Q8_DxJ6SoK20Q_KAAIpaqetIbjEG36dXuDMAI5U6R8eyHlzC_xZYC7rP6w5m4w8DJ4z36ClQ1wVV5QA57sJFLAvioyobb-1a3MLP8V5cm-Fn/w640-h640/img_20240610_135617_249.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/07/science-and-religion-chapter-2-st-luke.html">Chapter 2</a></i><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapter Three: Sources of Prejudice</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>Where does the widespread opinion among students, and educated people in general, that science contradicts religion come from?<br><br>Its cause lies in superficial knowledge in both science and religion, which confirms the idea: &quot;Knowledge leads to God, half-knowledge leads away from Him.&quot; Half-knowledge is the scourge of our time: it is precisely this that creates the prejudice just mentioned. First, we know little about philosophy, especially the branch of philosophy that specifically addresses this issue — that is, epistemology, or the theory of knowledge.<br><br>By credulously accepting as scientific the evidence presented in support of the proposition that God does not exist, we forget the propositions already clarified by Kant that theoretical reason is equally powerless to prove or disprove the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and free will. These objects and these questions are therefore called transcendental (beyond the bounds of science).<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/11/science-and-religion-chapter-3-st-luke.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-79455774225462395662025-07-02T01:59:00.005-04:002025-07-02T02:17:21.254-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjX4qBBgdItiIN2VGyRvQiKBrkXbYeIiLYpBQMIhIBN3zdLXvsjGh-QLF5rtTGE9YBXR7JTW9kXA7zMZ6eZHa95v1jGcpOpl40mRWoBo8Mbc99mo6pK9QKIf0OrAi_UhNfSjOPz98OJv_wnRiZV8ACL7Ar9jwjTppEsH_5LMT2MvO3gLfnyrVlq1riS-_I/s1500/luke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjX4qBBgdItiIN2VGyRvQiKBrkXbYeIiLYpBQMIhIBN3zdLXvsjGh-QLF5rtTGE9YBXR7JTW9kXA7zMZ6eZHa95v1jGcpOpl40mRWoBo8Mbc99mo6pK9QKIf0OrAi_UhNfSjOPz98OJv_wnRiZV8ACL7Ar9jwjTppEsH_5LMT2MvO3gLfnyrVlq1riS-_I/w480-h640/luke.jpg" width="480"></a></div><br></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/06/science-and-religion-chapter-1-st-luke.html">Chapter 1</a></i><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapter Two: What is Religion?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Broadly speaking, religion is the relationship to the Absolute, to That Which we call God. Since this relationship exists for everyone, even for an atheist, it is common to say that everyone has their own religion. However, when taken in this manner, in a broad sense, religion can be both correct and incorrect, true and false, moral and immoral – depending on what we understand as the absolute, highest, and ultimate value of the world and how we relate to it – what we believe in and how we believe, what we accept and what we reject. Positively and fundamentally speaking, religion is the communion with God (reunion). It is precisely about this religion that we must speak.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/07/science-and-religion-chapter-2-st-luke.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-59979784415533896732025-06-11T17:36:00.005-04:002025-07-02T02:00:09.807-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaQ3HJREplyEKLRCVtgLWa0vVRLkLmSgJZQEujLo3OAVxxNhD9WZuiZJBzRePx0BuLi2elhW_e66RoGHAm4TDWlLuSTuHSLMGG0ibMho43GJcT5mt4_bSET4TOMEujTW97GVF7f4Jyb3aINNl7cbwN7rhkIeUt-GmXqwxPzoycSBbaovaqSHokCtXy40M/s800/simferopol_kult_25_05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="602" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaQ3HJREplyEKLRCVtgLWa0vVRLkLmSgJZQEujLo3OAVxxNhD9WZuiZJBzRePx0BuLi2elhW_e66RoGHAm4TDWlLuSTuHSLMGG0ibMho43GJcT5mt4_bSET4TOMEujTW97GVF7f4Jyb3aINNl7cbwN7rhkIeUt-GmXqwxPzoycSBbaovaqSHokCtXy40M/w482-h640/simferopol_kult_25_05.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Science and Religion</b><span style="color: #990000;">1</span>&nbsp;<br /><br />By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Preface</b><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />In our life journey, we encounter two types of people. Some deny religion in the name of science, while others are distrustful of science for the sake of religion. There are also those who have managed to find harmony between these two needs of the human spirit. Shouldn't such harmony be the norm that a person ought to strive for? After all, both needs are rooted in the depths of human nature. Is it not the crisis of the educated individual that their "mind is not in accord with the heart"? Is it not this one-sided "intellectualism" that has driven a wedge between the intelligentsia and the people in Russia? Furthermore, the very fact that atheism and anti-Christianity are being presented to the public under the banner of science, which supposedly long ago disproved religion, compels us to deeply reflect and thoroughly resolve the question: does science contradict religion?<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapter One: What is Science?</b><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Socrates taught that in order to draw correct conclusions we must be able to define concepts. Therefore, we will try to give precise definitions of both concepts under consideration – and then compare them. Science is a system of acquired knowledge about the phenomena of reality that we observe. Let us delve into each of these words. Science is a system, meaning it is not a random collection of knowledge, but a coherent, ordered combination. This is achieved through classification, which is the distribution of homogeneous data into groups and generalizations – that is, the establishment of those common formulas and laws to which nature conforms. Science encompasses the knowledge that has been attained, meaning not all knowledge, but only that which has thus far been achieved. Scientific activity is dynamic; it is a process of "creating truth through experience and reasoning." This process in science is something that is dynamic and becoming: it undergoes questions, searches, doubts, and hypotheses, which may later turn out to be false. Only knowledge, that is, genuine reflections of reality, constitutes the established, static content of science — knowledge that is proven, universally binding, widely recognized, and objective judgments that are substantiated both logically and empirically, through reasoning and experience. This is knowledge about phenomena, that is, manifestations of life and nature, but not about their essences (phenomena, not noumena), about the world as we see it, observe it, but not about the world as it exists in itself, in essence. Phenomena are those elements that are evident to our five senses (as it is commonly believed, although there are more), for our five-sensory logic, armed with the technical enhancements of our cognitive organs in the form of microscopes, telescopes, and other scientific instruments. Thus, the field of exact science is limited just as the organs of scientific cognition are limited in their capacity for understanding.<br /><br />But man wants and must know what lies beyond science, what has not yet been achieved by it, and, by its very nature, lies outside its boundaries. For example, psychology is the science of mental phenomena. Yet we want to know more; we want to understand the soul, because all of life consists of encounters and interactions of human souls, and the soul is the person itself. It would be strange to assert that science knows or can know all of existence. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," says Hamlet in Shakespeare. Meanwhile, we also wish to comprehend this transcendental aspect; we seek to resolve the questions that so fill the soul of Heine's youth: "What is the mystery from ages past? And what is the essence of humanity? Where does one come from, where is one going? And who is there, above, beyond the stars?"<span style="color: #990000;">2</span> Knowledge transcends science. It is attained through those higher abilities of the spirit that science does not possess. Primarily, this is intuition, that is, the immediate sense of truth, which anticipates, perceives, and prophetically foresees what lies beyond the reach of scientific methods of cognition. This intuition has increasingly captured the attention of philosophy in recent times. We live by it much more than we assume. It leads us into another, higher realm of the spirit – namely, into religion.<br /><br /><b>Notes:</b><br /><br />1. Written in 1954. During the life of the Saint, the book was not published and was published for the first time only in 2000.<br /><br />2. "The North Sea" by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856).<br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/07/science-and-religion-chapter-2-st-luke.html">Chapter 2</a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-14661385343459603542025-06-06T05:29:00.002-04:002025-06-06T12:34:41.215-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KIsJdqrujdZiao2vrLfOua9nXcuV2zEYs0myiFhOW95m98651FKcNwGXluYEX0C34g0_HqU_nbp5bEODG-z8RnMHIieKOlSUO1bKQ59Lr1KZAGc-lNRdM9QKxVgM0VTKZUePeQQaYdXZakYWSTuYCABF9DPB6bmWESLSNEM7wSCiqEBJD5OKymTY6L8q/s435/Hieromonk_Nikolaj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KIsJdqrujdZiao2vrLfOua9nXcuV2zEYs0myiFhOW95m98651FKcNwGXluYEX0C34g0_HqU_nbp5bEODG-z8RnMHIieKOlSUO1bKQ59Lr1KZAGc-lNRdM9QKxVgM0VTKZUePeQQaYdXZakYWSTuYCABF9DPB6bmWESLSNEM7wSCiqEBJD5OKymTY6L8q/w230-h400/Hieromonk_Nikolaj.jpg" width="230"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By St. Nikolai Velimirovich<br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>By its interference, religion can inspire science, and again science by its interference can purify religion. The most beautiful spectacle in human society is a priest contributing to science and a scientist contributing to religion. The one-sided man is always an imperfect man; and an imperfect man as a teacher of perfection is a dangerous teacher for young generations.<br><br>Two Slavs, Nicolaus Copernicus, from Thorn, and Ruggiero Boscovich, from Ragusa, both Roman Catholic priests, were at the same time both ardent scientists. Copernicus postulated the heliocentric planetary system instead of the geocentric. This happened soon after Columbus made a great revolution in geographical science by discovering America. Some people thought the end of the Church had come after Copernicus&#39; discovery that the sun and not the earth is the centre of the world. But Copernicus not only did not think so, but continued quietly in his vocation as a priest and dedicated his famous work to Pope Paul III.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2025/06/the-noble-catholicity-between-religion.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-74224709196208450722024-10-07T15:38:00.002-04:002024-10-07T15:49:09.309-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcDPlP3FVg-40swlPa1O0LEBOEP9HbAapP4JR0V1LqgWp_FF2h3ZpI4ZTDEUqW308h3rWIIu9j7vDLywx391gSjBdq2eaUUkQmKoqUuO7shWUiEp8MdwX4jRAs-nfXM3bTWZXCei9Bx6SBeViEYcGPr4JuKATJH0pvgYwd30z_KbVVkuFTOJkkRgFuaF4/s450/archbishop_new.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcDPlP3FVg-40swlPa1O0LEBOEP9HbAapP4JR0V1LqgWp_FF2h3ZpI4ZTDEUqW308h3rWIIu9j7vDLywx391gSjBdq2eaUUkQmKoqUuO7shWUiEp8MdwX4jRAs-nfXM3bTWZXCei9Bx6SBeViEYcGPr4JuKATJH0pvgYwd30z_KbVVkuFTOJkkRgFuaF4/w346-h400/archbishop_new.jpg" width="346"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (+ 2008) was absolutely clear on the distinct roles of faith and science.<br><br>Speaking at a scientific conference on organ transplantation, he remarked that &quot;in our Orthodox Church we do not confuse Science with Faith and Religion. I could say, paraphrasing the word of the Lord, that we practice &#39;render the things of science unto science and the things of God unto God.&#39; Our Church, during the centuries of the birth and development of modern science, not only did not oppose its discoveries, but its clergy themselves translated the new scientific data into Greek and were the teachers of the nation in its very difficult time of slavery to the Ottomans... In our Church you will not find cases of condemnation, such as those of Giordano Bruno or Galileo. On the contrary, you will find Aristotle and Plato, Solon and Thucydides painted in the exonarthex of its churches... For our part, we rejoice in the successes and in the progress of science and technology, and we do not hesitate to capitalize on their achievements.&quot;<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2024/10/archbishop-christodoulos-of-athens-on.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-77129480648525848242023-07-03T12:33:00.002-04:002023-07-03T12:40:22.194-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheInKqKRDU1o6osKI-pEXaSLVU1rXL8r-4j2N1JsylIPFqBwTAYYw_IJuGlAeJSClcciH4WyqxnfOSKXNL0sqsjtKBqXRJitbZbqVIh-UzkBz9YJijSpENCCJ0v2MVkvEwcyW6641lXUiKmWH4GRFmuUuCu4-tfiC54i4198CP7VY4rkfaQn2Bo25m88o1/s645/Screenshot%202023-07-03%20at%2012-32-11%20%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%97%CE%A3%20%C2%AB%E1%BC%98%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%AF%20%CF%87%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82%20%E1%BC%95%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%E1%BC%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%85%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82%C2%BB.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="645" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheInKqKRDU1o6osKI-pEXaSLVU1rXL8r-4j2N1JsylIPFqBwTAYYw_IJuGlAeJSClcciH4WyqxnfOSKXNL0sqsjtKBqXRJitbZbqVIh-UzkBz9YJijSpENCCJ0v2MVkvEwcyW6641lXUiKmWH4GRFmuUuCu4-tfiC54i4198CP7VY4rkfaQn2Bo25m88o1/w640-h426/Screenshot%202023-07-03%20at%2012-32-11%20%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%97%CE%A3%20%C2%AB%E1%BC%98%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%AF%20%CF%87%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82%20%E1%BC%95%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%E1%BC%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%85%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82%C2%BB.png" width="640"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By Metropolitan Chrysostomos III of Mani<br><br><i>(Homily Delivered on June 30, 2022)</i><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>The Holy Unmercenaries Kosmas and Damian, whom we celebrate today, came from Rome and lived in the 3rd century. By studying medical science, they cured many people and even animals from their diseases. They did not receive money as a reward. They were unmercenaries. However, they would tell the healed to believe in Christian teaching.<br><br>Both were martyrs for Christ. They were even called Wonderworkers because even after their martyrdom they performed many miracles for the sick. In the Protaton of the Holy Mountain there is a wonderful fresco of them, a work of Panselinos of the 15th century.<br><br>These Saints also show us the value of the cooperation of religion and science. They were doctors, but that did not prevent them from being faithful Christians. This is a beautiful ideal. A proper scientist and a conscientious Christian. An excellent combination.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2023/07/scientist-and-christian-excellent.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-62202017759157534692023-06-16T12:17:00.008-04:002023-06-16T14:21:47.044-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX5jbGrCRJWbF6Coswa2Z7ruD5v1kQIlu4QPXXbDuUVaDaijHqja-mjw-RY4VpvMYu7PgtJeiHVCVc2HU5r3IQ6N9xoR1bslo1GxKDII1DJ6-L-iv06pa6nOcTq74GqHpewkrUqiNxWA4gai56Gt4NIrsk0EeOBK5zMAum6-5hjz-mspTNPIntGESnWw/s700/okno1-700x488.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="700" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX5jbGrCRJWbF6Coswa2Z7ruD5v1kQIlu4QPXXbDuUVaDaijHqja-mjw-RY4VpvMYu7PgtJeiHVCVc2HU5r3IQ6N9xoR1bslo1GxKDII1DJ6-L-iv06pa6nOcTq74GqHpewkrUqiNxWA4gai56Gt4NIrsk0EeOBK5zMAum6-5hjz-mspTNPIntGESnWw/w640-h446/okno1-700x488.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Homily on Science and Religion</b><br><br>By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea<br><br><i>(Delivered on May 30, 1948)</i><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">&quot;Considering modern science, as it was developed by Lamarck and Darwin, we find a direct opposite, an absolute inconsistency between the statements of science and the statements of religion in the field of basic questions of being and cognition. Therefore, an enlightened and consistent mind cannot recognize both at the same time. He needs to make a choice.&quot;<br><br>So wrote 65 years ago the famous German zoologist Haeckel, an ardent admirer of Darwin, in his then sensational book &quot;The Riddle of the Universe&quot;, which, as it seemed, completely refuted religion. He says that all enlightened minds must choose between science and religion, reject one or the other. He considers it necessary to reject religion, for the enlightened minds of science will not be rejected.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2023/06/homily-concerning-those-who-consider.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-56075255126381676302023-06-13T15:00:00.002-04:002023-06-16T14:33:20.080-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHVOYneZU24EnY1pAGvPRYG00fJgh5wt-CNKywL5ps7IrfcG2gnik_lwCn0vDnwGj1TNZ0gKQRfXYmgSe6oH73pMwNk0WDFlK7U6RLQGHyoDjAR0WGjM9m0VJ5H50aKJHvvYobWV8oxAN0cxfUcldse-6lUY_EVFLwDpM-wo8_cSWYC0i8UThjLPGaw/s480/triad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="310" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHVOYneZU24EnY1pAGvPRYG00fJgh5wt-CNKywL5ps7IrfcG2gnik_lwCn0vDnwGj1TNZ0gKQRfXYmgSe6oH73pMwNk0WDFlK7U6RLQGHyoDjAR0WGjM9m0VJ5H50aKJHvvYobWV8oxAN0cxfUcldse-6lUY_EVFLwDpM-wo8_cSWYC0i8UThjLPGaw/w414-h640/triad.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;By Archimandrite Joel Yiannakopoulos<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A look at the biblical six-day period convinces us that it is not about long periods of time, as some have believed, because the phrase "and it was evening, and it was morning, first day" shows that it excludes this idea. Nor is it about twenty-four-hour days, because the sun was made on the fourth day. So it is about six visions, enclosed in twenty-four hour time intervals, through which (I am not saying how it happened, but that) Moses saw God's action in time.<br /><br />The six visions are divided into two corresponding triads of days, so that the first triad verses 3-13 has the divisions, and the second triad verses 14-25 the supplements. Specifically: The first triad: On the first day light is separated from darkness, on the second day the sky is separated from the sea, on the third day the sea is separated from the land. In the second triad we have the following supplements: On the fourth day we have the sun to complement the light of the first day. On the fifth day we have the complements of sky and sea, i.e. birds and fish. And on the sixth day we have land animals and man, as supplements to the land and plants of the third day, because on the land and through the plants both animals and men live.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.oodegr.com/oode/sygrafeis/Iwil1.htm">Source</a>: From <i>Η ΠΑΛΑΙΑ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ</i>, Τ. Α΄, Η ΓΕΝΕΣΙΣ, εκδ. ΒΑΣ. ΡΗΓΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ 1969, σελ. 46. Translation by John Sanidopoulos.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-1611274008110660172022-10-22T13:28:00.001-04:002022-10-22T13:28:41.712-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbzn9vHCzF6o2y9lJ4_ZoO6PBGGw0TFI50zWH0u42SPkbnjsjm2SJcJi7sLC75HQth4vxyV710-wXz2EDoyp0q9bbuWwjYLG2uFG7F_scv5AJMlKNez__-gfWB3sp1bgVN7-vywHAroOAX_hshH0gr7vT2MQao2AbFT53Zm_rJnitw4AW_SdHlAmOZzw/s400/gerasimos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="400" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbzn9vHCzF6o2y9lJ4_ZoO6PBGGw0TFI50zWH0u42SPkbnjsjm2SJcJi7sLC75HQth4vxyV710-wXz2EDoyp0q9bbuWwjYLG2uFG7F_scv5AJMlKNez__-gfWB3sp1bgVN7-vywHAroOAX_hshH0gr7vT2MQao2AbFT53Zm_rJnitw4AW_SdHlAmOZzw/w400-h386/gerasimos.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;By Demetrios Panagopoulos, Preacher<br /><br />(From a sermon on February 13, 1983 or 1984)<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1967, a committee of scientists (medical examiners) had gone to examine the relic of Saint Gerasimos (in Kefallonia) and provide a "scientific" (if possible) solution to the incorruption of the sacred relic.<br /><br />They sat for several days and considered it. In the end, they compiled a report that, among other things, confessed that the incorruptibility of the sacred relic is beyond the realm of science.<br /><br />But the most amazing thing of all was that their leader, who was cold and indifferent to the faith, was for twenty days locked up in his house and troubled. When he was later asked why, he confessed that while examining the relic, at one point, he felt a pulse (a sign of a living person) in the Saint's hand!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://proskynitis.blogspot.com/2022/10/1967.html">Source</a>: Translated by John Sanidopoulos. </span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-52211268806035251992022-05-03T13:59:00.004-04:002022-05-03T14:54:42.294-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-Pr44ueDcpPdCqapK8jhrlk46N6dgOF3BPrU1GplJmSYXsTYabPnEclxsGdQC6hTYQfqyeGpxvW2SIQYpgTtRW0VxMLo-1mX959MjpV1J0obC2n_oCU0AJCuc6cAB1eLhnxKbgnyV7NkBSAAvR1RS8hPIWgT7Bn-qeHPWxumApITquqqlqS__bhpEw/s600/isaac.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="462" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-Pr44ueDcpPdCqapK8jhrlk46N6dgOF3BPrU1GplJmSYXsTYabPnEclxsGdQC6hTYQfqyeGpxvW2SIQYpgTtRW0VxMLo-1mX959MjpV1J0obC2n_oCU0AJCuc6cAB1eLhnxKbgnyV7NkBSAAvR1RS8hPIWgT7Bn-qeHPWxumApITquqqlqS__bhpEw/w308-h400/isaac.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Isaac Newton, the famous physicist, one day passed a cemetery with his students, and some of them asked:<br /><br />"How is it possible that the dead bodies, long ago corrupted, could become again bodies of their own souls?"<br /><br />The next day in class Newton mixed iron particles with sand and other materials. <br /><br />"Who could separate these iron particles from the sand and put them together?"<br /><br />He received no reply. <br /><br />Then Newton took a magnet and brought it closer to the scattered iron particles. There was a commotion of the particles. The small particles started to stick on the magnet, one after another. There wasn’t even a single iron particle left in the sand. Then Newton told his students:<br /><br />"Wouldn’t the One Who gave such power to the dead metal, also give our souls the power needed for them to return to their own bodies?"</div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-80205482542274058252022-01-03T14:46:00.005-05:002022-01-03T14:54:11.491-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNeph4pa2ABKxQjbYKVlzktcjBSaLPSLsR9rkj0uNYOqULRLrhzPE-nda8-hoSrJwwXt8c4FnD-06MU5UpqNIXUd0A4QHvndpqJgDnhXN2z6-Ep8ecHyWWLOv-0UdB2ryrjw4-cquuttuOT6ixHUtDE5-s_dH5L090EcOmxHEPdu8yeCMuzfVlU6gMrw=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="640" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNeph4pa2ABKxQjbYKVlzktcjBSaLPSLsR9rkj0uNYOqULRLrhzPE-nda8-hoSrJwwXt8c4FnD-06MU5UpqNIXUd0A4QHvndpqJgDnhXN2z6-Ep8ecHyWWLOv-0UdB2ryrjw4-cquuttuOT6ixHUtDE5-s_dH5L090EcOmxHEPdu8yeCMuzfVlU6gMrw=w400-h228" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, a full year has passed since the day the vaccination started in Greece and I received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on December 27, 2020, as a representative of the Church of Greece, and some days later on the 21st of January 2021, I received the second dose, and glory to God I am until now in good health. <br><br>In the statements I made then and in a text I wrote I formulated the two reasons that led me to this decision.<br><br>The first reason was a thought that prevailed in me that, from our childhood and throughout our lives, we received many vaccinations, we took many medicines and so we survived so many years in life and we praise God for that. Also, we thank the scientists, who with the help of God kept us alive, to work for the glory of God and the Church, but also the good of society.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2022/01/one-year-since-beginning-of-vaccination.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-81108423721767793672021-11-15T12:02:00.007-05:002021-11-15T12:07:58.052-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIVeyTvv4IatsQK3vHUr9PZ66TcL36-OScyjHu4V3d9hfoAfkDxXfIqIhSyjLayL9Ffxtoxu4HahuwTGf5IKtssjCHmRvoWq0EPQxCqjLU-zni1q8-ow0vfUyec6swgoSc8MP1bhXwhfQ/s899/martinos1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="899" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIVeyTvv4IatsQK3vHUr9PZ66TcL36-OScyjHu4V3d9hfoAfkDxXfIqIhSyjLayL9Ffxtoxu4HahuwTGf5IKtssjCHmRvoWq0EPQxCqjLU-zni1q8-ow0vfUyec6swgoSc8MP1bhXwhfQ/w400-h271/martinos1.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">&quot;The image I have of Mount Athos, from the contacts with all the institutions and from the cooperation with the Health Center, is that it is not difficult to handle&quot;, reveals the Civil Administrator of Mount Athos, Thanasis Martinos, referring to the situation that prevails with the cases of coronavirus among the Athonite monks.<br><br>As Thanasis Martinos pointed out, speaking to ANT1, &quot;at the moment we have 30-40 cases, mainly of isolated monks who live alone, and we also have 5-6 monks who are hospitalized in Thessaloniki, where we know that the situation is very difficult.&quot;<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/11/civil-administrator-of-mount-athos-says.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-67767483529752273932021-11-11T15:24:00.007-05:002021-11-11T15:40:23.105-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5-T3uZ7qAu4C19SXxNwL4kY1ESJdxsN61yFRFSFNCp-YmCupo9otZtHi79z_f_-g3gCNe1kba4XrOyrSrJc4GTICGFvS3VtAjKp6EJGTJBTIt2P0j1aivQCf72bGP074hMSuSifIJpkg/s963/%25CE%25A3%25CE%25B5%25CF%2581%25CE%25B1%25CF%2586%25CE%25B5%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="963" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5-T3uZ7qAu4C19SXxNwL4kY1ESJdxsN61yFRFSFNCp-YmCupo9otZtHi79z_f_-g3gCNe1kba4XrOyrSrJc4GTICGFvS3VtAjKp6EJGTJBTIt2P0j1aivQCf72bGP074hMSuSifIJpkg/w400-h225/%25CE%25A3%25CE%25B5%25CF%2581%25CE%25B1%25CF%2586%25CE%25B5%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BC.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus, one of the most conservative ecclesiastical leaders in Greece but also one of the first who was vaccinated against the coronavirus, showed a strong reaction to the clergy who oppose vaccination through a TV interview on Tuesday morning, November 9th, saying they commit fratricide and emphasizing that they have no place in the Church.<br><br>Answering a relevant question about the abbots of monasteries on Mount Athos who are against vaccinations, he pointed out that &quot;they all kill their brethren, the people do not understand it.... They are so selfish and egotistical that they do not understand this simple truth. Science is not from the devil, it is from God, but the devil has a great art, he is a a master artist. He is chasing us from the left with the most filthy atheism and from the right with zealotry without knowledge.&quot;<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/11/metropolitan-seraphim-of-piraeus.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-57180222230351961982021-11-03T14:35:00.007-04:002021-11-03T15:40:00.143-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSFNHOD4Owpo0ffemFRiDCAXvhInEBu-Ur9LGFZ8sRVfI_FqJpL0cQMIL-1kdKy1VU5XQrlWE_xuc7W0KB8vnzZnuxnopXt0xfQnTBCl9JJATmXuGXPpu_kL9604wLPw4dicC-zEpt4HA/s960/giannis-kallianos-i-eikona-tis-panagias-ston-i-n-agioy-dimitrioy-sto-vyrona-dakryzei-edo-kai-1-chrono-960x504.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="960" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSFNHOD4Owpo0ffemFRiDCAXvhInEBu-Ur9LGFZ8sRVfI_FqJpL0cQMIL-1kdKy1VU5XQrlWE_xuc7W0KB8vnzZnuxnopXt0xfQnTBCl9JJATmXuGXPpu_kL9604wLPw4dicC-zEpt4HA/w400-h210/giannis-kallianos-i-eikona-tis-panagias-ston-i-n-agioy-dimitrioy-sto-vyrona-dakryzei-edo-kai-1-chrono-960x504.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Giannis Kallianos is a 43 year old Greek presenter of meteorological bulletins, mathematician and politician, a member of the New Democracy in the Southern Sector of Athens II. Today, he works at Mega Channel.<br><br>On October 16, 2021, the MP became the target of an arson attack on his political office in Argyroupoli. The explosion of the incendiary device caused material damage to the entrance of the apartment building. In a post on Facebook, the MP described the perpetrators as enemies of democracy.<br><br>On October 29, 2021, he posted the following on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, responding to comments made from his post on October 26th, the feast of Saint Demetrios, where he mentioned that he attended the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Great Martyr at the Church of Saint Demetrios in Vyrona, where an icon of the Panagia has been weeping for a year:<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/11/greek-politician-and-scientist-responds.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-75378958757285257242021-10-18T12:22:00.015-04:002023-10-22T09:38:17.703-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCSOndTWrwZPyIH0BX-twrZ6y7ezqxNtfWlTfxvL2pxa-CUej1-Iw4kli-FN4Fc_8gwlf_Ia5qkw63Q4K6fEY2bHbiFabyEMcWQMG8EMiu9C9KZFB5PUoG__j8da44nMF06uvRyUdyppA/s974/doctors.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCSOndTWrwZPyIH0BX-twrZ6y7ezqxNtfWlTfxvL2pxa-CUej1-Iw4kli-FN4Fc_8gwlf_Ia5qkw63Q4K6fEY2bHbiFabyEMcWQMG8EMiu9C9KZFB5PUoG__j8da44nMF06uvRyUdyppA/w429-h640/doctors.webp" width="429"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the session of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which took place on the 21st of July 2021, under the chairmanship Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, discussed and appreciated were the sacrificial and essential contribution of medical science and its healers in tackling the pandemic.<br><br>Therefore, it was decided to establish the feast of the &quot;Synaxis of All the Holy Physicians&quot; on the Sunday of each year closest to the 17th and 18th of October, when the Synaxis of the Holy Unmercennary Saints and the memory of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke the Physician are celebrated. On this day, the &quot;Synaxis of the Holy Physicians&quot;, the Church will honor the full contribution of medical science and its healers to humanity.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/10/the-first-celebration-of-synaxis-of-all.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-65051452057134619032021-10-14T14:21:00.012-04:002021-10-14T14:29:59.951-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhzVDDp0kaSF6E73lhA1Tzhrg4qhwUUnrPW2p6q8kuGefiMGTiOFODnaUHRQTjgmhLWFKVOp2-ic1As8KBoo5UqI8jWgFcoh-iXn_gp3Mujp7NWAXDFx6mpcs8e9frDgVej7YFdyhFx7u/s632/hierotheos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="632" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhzVDDp0kaSF6E73lhA1Tzhrg4qhwUUnrPW2p6q8kuGefiMGTiOFODnaUHRQTjgmhLWFKVOp2-ic1As8KBoo5UqI8jWgFcoh-iXn_gp3Mujp7NWAXDFx6mpcs8e9frDgVej7YFdyhFx7u/w400-h265/hierotheos.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dealing with intense pastoral and social issues is, in a way, risky. It is better not to touch on such issues and to deal simply with indifferent issues, but, in the end, this is also ineffective.<br><br>As a responsible ecclesiastical pastor I need to make decisions and articulate my thoughts on various critical issues in order to inform Christians. If one is an ascetic in the wilderness of Mount Athos, perhaps he would not need to intervene, but to say a word to those who ask him, according to &quot;the Elder said&quot;. However, the pastoral ministry has obligations and duties towards the Christians who are pastored.<br><br>Thus, a while ago I wrote an <a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/09/pastoral-encyclical-to-clergy-regarding.html">Encyclical for the Clergy of my Sacred Metropolis</a>, so that there would be no serious cases among the priests, and that this &quot;evil&quot; would not spread to the entire fullness of the Church, so that Christians attribute the spread of the disease to the Clergy. Those involved in social and ecclesiastical work must take action. It would be unreasonable for Doctors in Hospitals to perform surgeries or other treatments and not to take the necessary precautionary measures.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/10/diverse-pandemics-follow-up-to-pastoral.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-129936095129503262021-10-06T11:31:00.007-04:002021-10-06T11:37:56.827-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FDub3h_lbBAWYf8IXGhYRpxVMQiLycWqJyJero8YfiF6QZ1_GvOR7j2TiI8gDwh6_2VwbEzEwDntJR23SWv8bp6pCNKHmwSz_OEbcSVj_GCPiiAwjGhGBgkOm577gSSUsZe44qd4UIjl/s560/science_kaitheologia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="560" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FDub3h_lbBAWYf8IXGhYRpxVMQiLycWqJyJero8YfiF6QZ1_GvOR7j2TiI8gDwh6_2VwbEzEwDntJR23SWv8bp6pCNKHmwSz_OEbcSVj_GCPiiAwjGhGBgkOm577gSSUsZe44qd4UIjl/w400-h268/science_kaitheologia.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The relationship between Faith, Theology and Science is clarified early on, already from the Biblical texts. From Genesis, the first book of the Bible, it is clear that God created the world. How the world was created, however, is left to the reader to answer over time. It is as if God scattered His &quot;breadcrumbs&quot; throughout creation and called man, the &quot;expert&quot;, to discover them. And indeed, man gradually discovered much. With wisdom, from above and beyond, he found cures for diseases, developed technology and thus made human life easier. In fact, his life expectancy increased. Today, there are even remote surgeries and so many other similar things. God has blessed science and scientists and we have so many benefits today. But the &quot;problems&quot; start when the roles get confused. When the scientist does not see God &quot;behind his achievements&quot;, when he acts arrogantly like a little god, and when the theologian, on the other hand, tries to place things &quot;narrowly&quot; by entering fields he does not know. The same thing happens when he constantly finds &quot;demons&quot; in front of him, flooded with suspicions.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/10/science-is-in-dna-of-our-orthodox-faith.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-51512999739627234252021-09-17T15:45:00.003-04:002021-09-18T15:09:28.768-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqVFUmixd3nHpN5VVJMZOJH7qHN6J5L466GIjSYQL_58kr7a4VR_77dCG_WQsEboOQ0cmtWowP-1IFLtWiF-MLLlB3B6orS7q6h5hCeCfXZrSeFogG9t1fo8Wl8XFWdUOmPAMYSFvdIS1/s632/hierotheos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="632" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqVFUmixd3nHpN5VVJMZOJH7qHN6J5L466GIjSYQL_58kr7a4VR_77dCG_WQsEboOQ0cmtWowP-1IFLtWiF-MLLlB3B6orS7q6h5hCeCfXZrSeFogG9t1fo8Wl8XFWdUOmPAMYSFvdIS1/w400-h265/hierotheos.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dear Fathers and Brothers,<br><br>As you know, our country and the whole world has been suffering for more than a year and a half from the so-called health crisis, SARS-CoV-2, that causes infection and the disease of Covid-19.<br><br>In this matter the State takes the appropriate measures, coordinating with the World Organizations for the health of its citizens, and the Church treats this matter with seriousness, sobriety and responsibility.<br><br>Among the measures to prevent infection and disease, and perhaps one of the most important, is the vaccine, as is the case with many other diseases. The Standing Holy Synod took specific decisions on this issue:<br><br>On January 13, 2021, it decided: The Holy Synod &quot;closely monitors the issue of vaccinations, through the Synodal Committee on Bioethics, which, with its continuous reports, informs the Synod. In this context, the Holy Synod was informed that, following an investigation, the Covid-19 vaccines currently used in our country do not require the use of embryonic cell cultures for their production.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/09/pastoral-encyclical-to-clergy-regarding.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-14064661883944894882021-09-13T14:33:00.008-04:002021-09-13T14:40:26.183-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fQD7yliHoYSACeE9HykgPZ3skrb9A98vzXiBjhE6hhmEw-lhcHXpKeRhIWKD5-ZkdnUCzDByIX-AxGYhUAcZiQPEch2GlSqg_qjEXE-Z7IBgil2m4rxLfv0egq58gSmfjRA5DwRQXr3_/s1200/gynaika-mesa-se-ekklisia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fQD7yliHoYSACeE9HykgPZ3skrb9A98vzXiBjhE6hhmEw-lhcHXpKeRhIWKD5-ZkdnUCzDByIX-AxGYhUAcZiQPEch2GlSqg_qjEXE-Z7IBgil2m4rxLfv0egq58gSmfjRA5DwRQXr3_/w400-h400/gynaika-mesa-se-ekklisia.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If some research is done among churchgoers and even during their attendance at the Divine Liturgy, it will be found that all of them have various and varied diseases and, of course, they also make the relevant treatment, following therapeutic guidance.<br><br>This is evident from the fact that in every home, especially where young children and the elderly live, there are drawers and separate areas full of medicines.<br><br>We are in a time when environmental pollution is prevalent, diseases are on the rise and therefore many medicines are being taken by humans.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/09/vaccines-and-ecclesiastical-life.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-43715553218695008722021-08-09T16:53:00.006-04:002021-08-09T16:57:48.478-04:00<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgziAEzxysmYzQaPnoeXofwYMeesQhrFPM9G2N2SgvtHFMKJeFUK63B546Gtdmu5Vsabek2lOcv8b_muCfXsSNNawz4BHxLX5XFCerbcQnQTFdmJQ9hufgEx0q7YgYQi-p48jEUvJmLDU6/s800/agiosgiannisorosos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgziAEzxysmYzQaPnoeXofwYMeesQhrFPM9G2N2SgvtHFMKJeFUK63B546Gtdmu5Vsabek2lOcv8b_muCfXsSNNawz4BHxLX5XFCerbcQnQTFdmJQ9hufgEx0q7YgYQi-p48jEUvJmLDU6/w400-h225/agiosgiannisorosos.jpg" width="400"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On August 7, 2021 a litany took place in Prokopi of Evia with sacred relics and the large holy icon of Saint John the Russian, together with the wonderworking icon of Saints Constantine and Helen from the parish of the same name, in which the whole village participated, while it had an evacuation order given due to the raging fire which was fast approaching the village and despite the ban imposed by the government on litanies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From here we downloaded the file (Live satellite download): https://zoom.earth/</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyone who wants can enter the site to verify them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Keep in mind, there was no rain in the forecast.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></div></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/08/scientific-evidence-of-miracle-in.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-8592714500349241512021-07-31T13:32:00.006-04:002021-07-31T18:24:47.763-04:00<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawjpF4OIXiuXu3ha-WFPc35iUFQBHdGuhjp_7C1sinoZQMi2sHbFIjy1I35i0ZyMbw2iErg7MbPgfZMcIltENlC6dzrzmXSLEJJWDwHNjbJ9erlCgz1LpeQy3-HdFqzoxK5F0JSkSwvC7/s769/keria_ekklisia_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="769" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawjpF4OIXiuXu3ha-WFPc35iUFQBHdGuhjp_7C1sinoZQMi2sHbFIjy1I35i0ZyMbw2iErg7MbPgfZMcIltENlC6dzrzmXSLEJJWDwHNjbJ9erlCgz1LpeQy3-HdFqzoxK5F0JSkSwvC7/w400-h225/keria_ekklisia_1.jpg" width="400"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Introduction</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed. When smallpox devastated Greece in 1864, rulers were trying to find a way to fight it, and the Greek Orthodox Church through an encyclical of the Holy Synod had addressed the local hierarchs and consequently the Body of the Church, promoting the vaccine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With harsh expressions for the time, the Holy Synod in its encyclical characterizes non-vaccination as a deadly sin, going one step further, calling those who refuse to be vaccinated that may die from the disease as suicides.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It proves that the Church has the maturity and the tools to motivate the faithful to be vaccinated and, above all, to isolate the divergent views within it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This flashback refutes all those who try to accuse the Church of challenging science, despite the clear statements in favor of vaccinating both by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Hieronymos of Athens and All Greece, among many other Hierarchs throughout the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></div></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/07/encyclical-from-1864-shows-orthodox.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125967576506418535.post-33039016875829338432021-06-26T13:58:00.004-04:002021-06-26T14:30:27.925-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN3N8Yj4uwK7xZjaP6RRpyX7Q0qF3nY2IrQI5Alxrnndrw3wUTRgecPHvdOGWdq06n_FtHSkB_Ngyw4jDAZ3fNrj9u6okd_7CRoNVSj11fm1adkaM8b7YtAjkSVvNhiy3cRY0bAN59xHgy/s400/Nikolaos-XatzHnikolaou-Covid-19by-Ntrekou.gr-%25CE%2591%25CE%25AD%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B1%25CE%25B7-%25CE%25B5%25CF%2580%25CE%2591%25CE%25BD%25CE%25AC%25CF%2583%25CF%2584%25CE%25B1%25CF%2583%25CE%25B7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="400" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN3N8Yj4uwK7xZjaP6RRpyX7Q0qF3nY2IrQI5Alxrnndrw3wUTRgecPHvdOGWdq06n_FtHSkB_Ngyw4jDAZ3fNrj9u6okd_7CRoNVSj11fm1adkaM8b7YtAjkSVvNhiy3cRY0bAN59xHgy/w400-h173/Nikolaos-XatzHnikolaou-Covid-19by-Ntrekou.gr-%25CE%2591%25CE%25AD%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B1%25CE%25B7-%25CE%25B5%25CF%2580%25CE%2591%25CE%25BD%25CE%25AC%25CF%2583%25CF%2584%25CE%25B1%25CF%2583%25CE%25B7.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogaia, who has become a trusted ecclesiastical voice in matters related to the coronovirus due to his extensive scientific and Athonite background, ruled out the possibility of creating a &quot;nanosphere&quot; which could enter with the coronavirus vaccine in the body.<br><br>Speaking on behalf of the Bioethics Committee of the Church of Greece in an online meeting on &quot;Pandemic Covid-19&quot; organized by the Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis on January 21st, he clarified that there is no such technology that is being tested, regarding the infamous claim of &quot;chip&quot; implantation through the vaccine.<br><br>The Metropolitan of Mesogaia, Nicholas, in an online meeting on the issue of vaccines, added, however, that the &quot;biggest threat from a &#39;chip&#39; would be our mobile phone; everything is done better through applications than it could be done with a nanosphere that could possibly to get into my body with the vaccine.&quot;<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.bio-orthodoxy.com/2021/06/metropolitan-nicholas-of-mesogaia.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com