Archpriest Paul Jannakos

On the Healing of the Ten Lepers and the Virtue of Obedience

On the Healing of the Ten Lepers and the Virtue of Obedience

20 December 2015

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

Why Jesus is both God and Man.

05 October 2010

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

The difficulty of living in this era as an Orthodox Christian is thus realizing that we have been seated in the corner of the world’s classroom and that a cone with the label “dunce” has been placed ...

How to Grow Spiritually – Part III

15 July 2010

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

As one Athonite theologian writes, “Since man is “called to be a god” (i.e. was created to become a god), as long as he does not find himself on the path of Theosis he feels an emptiness within ...

How to live the Spiritual Life (Part II)

09 June 2010

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

Having stated that one cannot grow in the Christian faith without knowing that the locus of eternal life is the human heart, and that the commandments are necessary in order to cleanse the senses so ...

How to live the Spiritual Life (Part I)

03 June 2010

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

As a priest, I take these words to heart, knowing that, to a great extent, I am the one responsible to God for whether such growth occurs or not. For those ordained to the priesthood, this is a ...

How to Win the Virtues

19 February 2010

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

The season of Great Lent for us as Orthodox Christians is for one thing only, the “winning” of the virtues. These are the 40 days given to us, (the “tithe” of the year according to Dorotheus of ...

What Good is Religion?

30 November 2009

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

All of this begs the question, does religion here in the West have a future, as Freud himself once questioned? Or, will it begin to die a slow, miserable death, as many of its antagonists believe, ...

Is Human Perfection Possible?

02 October 2009

Archpriest Paul Jannakos

To be a Christian, then, means to experience the perfection of Theosis, not as something static, (i.e., from a pseudo-moralistic stance), but as something that is an ongoing, continuous mystery. Each ...