It often happens that we see or hear about people’s injustices and sins and we’re in the habit of being pleased about them. We express our joy in a shameless way, by laughing foolishly. This isn’t right. We should stop this bad habit, lest we’re condemned for it. Saint John Kronstadtskij
There’s no shorter route than bearing temptations, in whatever manner they may come upon you. People’s spiritual state and the grace they have is apparent from their patience. Saint Iosif the Hesychast
We’re all sinners. Just by being on earth and being clothed in the flesh, every step we take is a sin. The world’s wallowing in sin and doesn’t realize it. Saint Georgios Karslidis
Great Holy Water is recommended by spiritual guides in certain instances where the person confessing has fallen into a sin and doesn’t have a blessing to receive communion. In this case, his or her spiritual guide will suggest fasting and will offer Holly Water as a consolation. The Holy Water isn’t a substitute for Holy Communion, which is God’s greatest gift to us. As regards the matter of Great Holy Water, the faithful have a number of questions. They ask: ‘Do we drink Great Holy Water on the eve of Theophany? Can we have Great Holy Water at home and use it?’ Often they get a rough and ready answer which simply confuses them. Regarding the Great Holy Water and its preservation, ...
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, announced on Tuesday evening that he will not officiate at...
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymos on Tuesday called on all Metropolitans, the heads of ecclesiastical districts, to help...
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The Council of State (CoS), Greece’s top administrative court, has ruled against legal challenges by individual citizens seeking to rescind...
The online radio platform Pemptousia.fm will broadcast the Christmas Eve All-night Vigil – as based on the Julian calendar –...
With the blessing of Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the parish of St. Paraskevi Brisbane on Sunday held the inaugural event...
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Τhe few remaining Christians on the northeast Aegean island of Tenedos, joined the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos,...
«We are asking for the cooperation of the Church. We are hoping that the Church will reconsider its position,» alternate...
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday sought to defuse the tension that has arisen with respect to the celebration of...
The ceremonies to swear in the new members of the cabinet, as well as those that were transferred to different...
The government on Monday said the Church of Greece must «realize the critical significance of the current juncture for society,...
The swearing-in of the new members of the Greek Cabinet took place on Tuesday, before president of the republic Katerina...
The Church today venerates the memory of St. Romanos the New Righteous Martyr of Karpenissi. Πηγή: www.orthodoxianewsagency.gr
On Friday, January 1, feast of the Circumcision of our Lord and St Basil the Great, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas...
Priests and epidemiologists visited the Patriarchate of Georgia on January 4, 2020, on the occasion of the 88th anniversary of...
