Don’t think only about what you’re going to eat, what you’re going to wear, what a big house you’re going to build. Knock at the doors of the poor, the sick and the orphans. Choose the homes of people in sorrow over those of contented folk. If you do good works, you’ll receive a great reward from God. You’ll be allowed to see miracles and in the next life you’ll enjoy delight beyond measure. Our Most Holy Lady doesn’t want candles; she wants alms to be given to the poor. Saint Georgios Karslidis
It needs great effort because the passions are very powerful. But by God’s grace, those who strive valiantly, with might and main, will overcome. Bodily exertion and study of the holy Scriptures preserve the purity of the mind. It also requires a great deal of prayer, so that Divine Grace will mantle those who are striving. It takes a great spiritual struggle to acquire the Grace of the Holy Spirit, because people are easily led astray into wickedness and lose in a trice what it has taken them enormous effort to gain. There’s good and evil in people’s hearts. Which of the two will win depends on your own struggle. If we allow ourselves freedom, without restraint, evil will triumph. When we ...
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On Sunday, November 16/29, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Hieromartyr Philoumenos at the Nablus shrine of...
The first online assembly from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery...
The Missionary Home Society this week announced that various Orthodox patristic and liturgical texts will be translated into Swahili, and...
Greece’s consul general in the western Australia city of Perth, Georgia Karasiotou, on Monday paid her first official visit to...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, spoke to the faithful after a con-celebratory Divine Liturgy on Monday at...
The deputy governor of Mount Athos, Aristos Kasmiroglou, this week signed a decision extending a ban on all pilgrimages...
The Church today commemorates Nahum the Prophet. Nahum prophesied after the destruction of Samaria – 721 years before Christ...
The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week referred to the connection between Orthodox teaching and a socially just...
The feast of St. John Chrysostom is the name day of His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia, Locum Tenens of...
You are invited to participate in the 1st Digital Fellowship from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim Abbot of Holy Monastery of Vatopedi and French Orthodox Faithful of www.orthodoxie.com, which will take place TUESDAY, Dec 1, 2020 07:30-09:30 PM Athens time (12:30 EASTERN). Elder Ephraim will talk in Greek and we will offer real-time English and French Interpretation for the entire session, including the homily as well as the questions & answers session. The e-Meeting is organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA, the French portal ORTHODOXIE.COM and the DUMITRU STANILOAE ORTHODOX CENTER FOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN PARIS. You may register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpdeuqrT0uH9YQ0vgZ8_Eh5N2hU6sd0v6j After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please install the ZOOM “Desktop or mobile” app in order to be able to listen to ...
The Georgian Orthodox Church has opened a new monastery in America. In a video posted on the Facebook page of...
The 1st Digital Fellowship from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim Abbot of Holy Monastery of Vatopedi and French Orthodox Faithful...
If you’ve turned to God with all your heart and you’ve given yourself to Him completely, He Who is All-Good will never let you be deceived. His angel, your ever-vigilant guardian, will secretly warn you of impending danger. Saint Theophan the Recluse
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The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, was released from an Athens hospital on Monday, more than...
The Bishop of Budimlye-Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, the administrator of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, on Sunday celebrated...
The dean’s office of the school of theology at the University of Athens has expressed its heartfelt thanks towards the...