POST-HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE International Scientific Conference OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Athens, Sep 27th, 2024 The “St. Maxim the Greek” Institute, in collaboration with the Office of the Orthodox Church in the European Union, is organizing an International Scientific Conference titled …| PEMPTOUSIA
‘Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine’ (1 Tim. 5:17). Saint Paul recommends us to honour our Elders and those who ‘labour in the word and…| PEMPTOUSIA
In the prayer to the Holy Spirit we say: ‘O Heavenly King and Comforter, which art in all places and fillest all things.’ Then how is itthat, ‘The Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet…| PEMPTOUSIA
When we talk about Science, we usually mean things that we can see, measure and touch. But when we talk about Orthodoxy faith, divinity, then the measure is immeasurable, the image is bright and bathed in light, the word is…| PEMPTOUSIA
POST-HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE International Scientific Conference PHAICON 24 Athens, Greece, Oct. 31 – Nov. 3, 2024 Co-organizers Saint Maxim the Greek Institute Office of the Orthodox Church at the European Union SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Apostolos Nikolaidis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology…| PEMPTOUSIA
Life in the bosom of the Holy Church can be likened to a continuous cycle of feasts, that is, of the spiritual commemoration of eternal events. The enemy of our souls, the devil, fights against us by treacherously and relentlessly…| PEMPTOUSIA
According to the Proto-Gospel of James, Righteous Joseph was away for the summer doing construction work while the infant Christ was growing in the womb of Mary. In the autumn, Joseph returned home to find his espoused wife seven months…| PEMPTOUSIA
Together with the hymnographer, we wonder profoundly, are at a loss and astonished at the incomprehensible mystery of Christ’s incarnation, which natural time has brought us to celebrate once again this year. What is really beyond understanding, of course, is…| PEMPTOUSIA
‘Right’ and ‘Left’ don’t only have to do with political alignments. The terms were also used to define two categories of temptation in the spiritual life. Indeed, because it’s less perceptible, the temptation ‘from the right’ was considered the more…| PEMPTOUSIA
On the 6th Sunday of Luke, the great Redeemer of the human race, while He was in the land of the Gadarenes, opposite Galilee, relieves, redeems and liberates a man from a terrible threat. The ‘sick’ servant in today’s Gospel…| PEMPTOUSIA
‘Therefore become merciful, as your Father is merciful’. If we read the literature of the ancient Greek sages and, indeed, that of wise people from all over the world, we see that, in their efforts to define what is just,…| PEMPTOUSIA
How often do we do something considered spiritual- prayer, church attendance, fasting, some alms-giving- and think we’ve become ‘Saint Anthony’. Because we compare ourselves… to ourselves. We ourselves are the criterion. It’s like somebody going on a run and thinking…| PEMPTOUSIA
Their mockery comes from a malicious heart; let your smile be without any badness. Mockery sits well with ignorance; a smile is more suited to knowledge. Through their mockery they’re increasing the value of your prayer before the eternal Judge.…| PEMPTOUSIA
(Edited by Stelios Koukos) [Saint Porfyrios]- ‘I suggest we pray together, both of us, at exactly the same time. We’ll each pray for the other’. We agreed and promised. We even set the time for the prayer-10 p.m. He explained…| PEMPTOUSIA
The consistency of the pattern in Christ’s life is a challenge for the rational thinking of people in the world and a reversal of everything they hold to be a constant. Why? Because, having expunged God from their life, they…| PEMPTOUSIA
The Apostle Paul, after being freed from his first imprisonment in Rome, went to Crete with his valued companion, Titus. After a short period of apostolic activity, The Apostle Paul made Titus the Bishop of Crete to continue the…| PEMPTOUSIA
Beloved brothers and sisters, when he was speaking one time to the elders of the Church of Ephesus, Saint Paul told them that he was aware that, after he left them, savage wolves would come in among them and would not…| PEMPTOUSIA
Why we were not made perfect from the beginning. (Saint Irenaeus ends the previous chapter, 37, by saying that God has arranged things in such a manner that we will be brought to perfection over time). But what if someone…| PEMPTOUSIA
‘Father, I don’t love’. ‘Well done’. ‘Well done that I don’t love?’ ‘No, no. I mean something else’. ‘What would that be?’. ‘You’ll understand as we go on. Just tell me what you mean when you say you don’t love’.…| PEMPTOUSIA
Nina D. had Starets Anatolij as her confessor. Quite some time after his demise, she moved to the Briansk region, where the last great starets of Optina was already living in exile. It happened that an acquaintance of hers saw…| PEMPTOUSIA