Jesus taught in the synagogues on the Sabbath. The reason behind His choice of day was that the Sabbath was a day without work, dedicated to the worship of God. All tasks were completely forbidden. Even the distance you could walk was strictly regulated. So all the people gathered on those days in the synagogue in order to hear the word of God. One Sabbath, in one of the synagogues, a woman stood out from the crowd. Her body was badly bent over, so that she couldn’t stand up straight: ‘she could not straighten up at all’ (Luke 13, 11). For 18 years she hadn’t been able to look at people properly because of the problem. It was heart-breaking. Her ...
His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostom of Dabar-Bosnia, was admitted to the Clinical Hospital Center “Dr Dragisa Misovic” in Belgrade on Friday...
My Beloved Ones, Here in Atlanta, and across much of the Holy Metropolis, we are experiencing the beginning of cold...
The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity presents, under the High Patronage of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America: «God...
It is unimaginable that hunger continues to exist in America. To help the thousands of at-risk youth in Baltimore who...
His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, condemned today the attempt to burn the Church of Gethsemane in Jerusalem by...
Today, as we live through the terrifying event of the pandemic, which has befallen us, we are called upon to respond to the enduring invitation of the Church to welcome and minister to our suffering brothers and sisters. We are invited to love and serve our fellow human beings. In particular, doctors and other health care providers, inspired by Christian solidarity, are called upon to shoulder the heavy burden and complete the task of the human effort to defend and treat other people all over the world. All such providers in the health sector deserve our warmest congratulations, since they do not merely turn up for work but also serve other people with their highly developed sense of self-denial. This corona ...
Jesus, Son of God have mercy on me. Be joy in my sorrow. Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
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The Academy is growing rapidly, together with its children! A new campaign has started to help remedy its limited capacity...
December 3, 2020 Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Orange, Connecticut Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Tonight, we continue our...
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University’s Center for Byzantine Studies, has announced the newly published volume by His Grace Bishop Joachim (Cotsonis)...
The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week honored Russian theology professor emeritus Boris Alexandrovich for...
A variety of very high-quality videos posted by the Athens-based Foundation of the Hellenic World on its YouTube channel include...
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Friday received visiting Greek...
Deutsche Welle’s Turkish service this week confirmed that UNESCO wants to examine official Turkey’s alterations to the Hagia Sophia and...
Churches remained closed to worshippers on Friday for the feast day of St. Barbara the Great Martyr, while annual litanies...
The Church today venerates the memory of Barbara the Great Martyr. Saint Barbara was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia, modern-day Lebanon,...
A miracle occurred in the Philippines earlier this month, as testified to by the local hierarch. On November 13, parishioners...
On November 30, 1980, His Eminence Metropolitan Mark (Arndt), then an archimandrite, of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia...