The online radio platform Pemptousia will commence live broadcasts from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy and Great Monastery of...
The theological significance of the Nativity Apart from being a historical event, the Birth of Christ is the ‘great mystery of godliness’ (I Tim. 3, 16). What exactly is this mystery? The fact that ‘God appeared in the flesh’ (I Tim. 3, 16), that He became a human person. ‘The mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed’ (16, 25). Essentially, this is the mystery of our salvation, which is performed and wrought by the Son of God Himself, Who became human precisely to save the whole of our race from ‘servitude to the enemy’. Through His coming into the world, the Son of God unites with us and saves us: on the one hand, human nature is united to ...
The bioethic work of medical philosopher Hippocrates as the father of medical science and health sciences in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BC is considered very important and topical in today’s reality. In the capital of the Greek island of Kos, which according to the historian Strabo was considered one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world, there were Agora, Prytaneion, theatre, temples and altars, with statues of local heroes. In this distant but like fairy-tale environment and under the shadow of the historic plane tree, the medical philosopher spent the summer hours writing his books and teaching his disciples. This man of wisdom was destined to become the pride of the island, and afterwards of the ...
An Encyclical for New Year’s Day Let us sit and talk for a moment. Let us discuss our sorrows and our troubles. Let us reminisce about the days of old, as well as the most recent past. If we could go back 200 years, we would come across the so-called Old Man of the Morea, the Greek General Theodoros Kolokotronis. Let us pay careful attention to what he would tell us. Can you hear him? This is what he would say: “God has signed in favour of Greece’s freedom and He does not take back His signature.” A handful of brave young men took an oath: freedom or death. For the Holy Faith of Christ. For the freedom of the homeland. For the ...
Stricter week-long restriction measures to manage the rise in coronavirus cases went into effect at 06:00 on Sunday, January 3...
Bread is an extremely important element in Bulgarian traditional culture. That is why there are a number of rituals and...
It took Serbia eight centuries to erect a monument to the founder of the state. On December 25, 2020, the...
From the Fall of Adam and Eve and their exile from Paradise until the coming of the Messiah, Christ’s incarnation...
First public screening of the documentary about the life, personality and work of Archbishop Stylianos of blessed memory; a gift...
A number of families received an amazing Christmas gift this year in Romania. Through the efforts of Fr. Dan Damaschin,...
President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanović, sent the adopted laws back to the Parliament, including the Law on Freedom of Religion,...
The Metropolitanate of Zagreb-Ljubljana calls upon all people of goodwill, who want and can, to help the victims of the...
His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimye-Niksic and the Administrator of Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishops...
His Grace Bishop Jovan of Slavonia celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of The Entry of the Most...
John, Bishop of Caracas and South America has issued his Nativity Epistle. The Epistle reads: But when the fulness of the...
The established annual memorial service for the departed Fathers, memorable Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Archbishops, Hieromonks and Monks and Nuns was...
Obscenity is when people use foul language. Such people are the most ridiculous of people, the most dishonorable, brazen-faced, shameless in their behavior, with no control over their tongue, brash and unabashed. They’re laughable. Their mouths are full of inanity, nonsense, and audacity. Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis, the Wonder-Worker
Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me. Redeem me from my captivity. Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
On Thursday, 18/31 December 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Father among the Saints Modestos, Patriarch of Jerusalem....
On December 27, 2020, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the...
