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Commandments

  1. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” (This is the first and greatest commandment.)

  2. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (The second is like it.)

Gregory Palamas

June 16, 2026

Word 1 – “On the Descent of the Holy Spirit” – Saint Gregory Palamas

In his work “On the Descent of the Holy Spirit” (“Against the Latins”) (1335 or 1355), St. Gregory Palamas considers the doctrine of the Filioque as a dangerous innovation, likening…

June 16, 2026

Saint Gregory Palamas: On Prayer and Purity of Heart (Three Chapters)

Chapter 1. Prayer as a Path to Unity with God and Purification from Passions Since God is bliss itself, mercy, and the abyss of goodness, everyone who enters into union…

June 16, 2026

The Ten Commandments according to Christian law

On the commandments of God and the Christian life “The Lord your God, the Lord is one” (Deut. 6:4), known in the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit:…

June 16, 2026

Gregory Palamas on those who are sacredly silent (hesychasts)

Questions for him Some say that we do wrong in trying to enclose our mind within the body; for, they say, it is much more necessary and more useful to…

June 16, 2026

Our Holy Father Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, to the venerable nun Xenia, on the passions and virtues and on the fruits of intelligent action

Attacks from opponents and an insatiable thirst for the Divine word Despite the great number of those who attack me, I had completely decided to refrain from writing about anything,…

June 16, 2026

SAINT GREGORY PALAMA , ARCHBISHOP OF THESSALONIA

Brief information about him Saint Gregory was born in Constantinople to noble and distinguished parents. He lost his father very early and was raised by his mother, as were his…

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