An extraordinary meeting was held at the building of Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis in Thessaloniki, Greece on Sunday chaired...
There are now more and more allegations – even by Turkish agents – about the destruction of ancient and Byzantine...
With journalists, aid workers and U.N. officials largely cut off and local internet and mobile services blocked, much remains unknown...
Read the Encyclical on the Feast of the Three Hierarchs and the Day of Greek Letters by His Eminence Archbishop...
Cultivate within yourself the fear of God and reverence for His inexpressible majesty. Have a broken and contrite heart. Consider everyone to be better than you. Love silence, isolation, and interaction with the Lord, who will become your guide and teacher. Saint Theophan the Recluse
Read the Archdiocese’s statement regarding the grant received from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance education in Greek language,...
Read the Assembly’s statement regarding the issue of supporting women in crisis pregnancies Today, as the annual March For...
St. Michael Church in a Black Sea coastal town in northeastern Turkey will become a museum that welcomes domestic and...
The Church today commemorates the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, & John Chrysostom. The...
Jesus Son of God, have mercy on me. Be peace and quiet against my bad conscience. Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
As an interpreter of the Christian view of time, Basil the Great reveals to us a new perspective, which leads to a creative, transcendent synthesis. This new perspective, which was more than ancient Greek philosophy and, indeed, human thought in general were able to achieve, is offered by the Church. The Church, not as a worldly, social reality, but as the body of Christ, who ‘is, was and will come’ . As his body, which combines the dimensions of time and incorporates them as a person in the eternal ‘now’ of his presence. Within the Church, remembrance of the past becomes remembrance in Christ. Hope for the future becomes hope in Christ. This is why the life of Christians as ...
On 30 January, the Church celebrates the memory of the three great hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. This is not a commemoration in the strict sense of the word, i.e. the anniversary of the death of these Fathers, but a common feast, a “synaxis”, to use liturgical terminology. Basil the Great died on 1 January in the year 379 and his memory is celebrated, as is well-known, on January 1; Gregory the Theologian departed this life on 25 January, 389, so his feast is just past; and John Chrysostom fell asleep in the Lord on 14 September 407, on the day of the Elevation of the Precious Cross. The latter’s commemoration has been moved, however, ...
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The feast day of the Three Hierarchs, St Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrystostom, which annually...
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, issued a message on the occasion of the new academic year on the...
The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, has issued an update on the Covid-19 restrictions in the...
The Church today commemorates the Removal of the Holy Relics of Ignatius the God-bearer. Πηγή: www.orthodoxianewsagency.gr
‘We wish the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija the strength to endure and persevere in the parts they hold sacred,...
“He distinguished himself through self-sacrifice, but especially through mercy and the care he had for the Church and its...
The Archdiocese of Timișoara, in Western Romania, spent 900,000 € on philanthropic projects last year, according to an announcement on...