Prof. Vladimir Leposavic, a member of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral’s legal council, this week detailed the persecutions...
The Greek government on Wednesday evening issued another joint ministerial decision extending social distancing measures for places of worship until...
Only days, if not hours, remain before Turkey’s Council of State releases a decision regarding a petition to reconvert the...
Great house with Christian symbols in the Byzantine town of Pi Metzuba also had a mosaic with pagan motifs, including...
All the other capacities which we glimpse around the divine nature surpass the measure of human understanding, but lowliness is implanted within us and co-exists with those who come from below, are composed of earthly material and who return to the ground. You acquire the characteristics of bliss when you imitate God insofar as this is naturally possible. Let no-one think that humility is achieved easily and without effort. Quite the opposite. It’s the most exhausting of all the virtues we seek. And why is this? Because when people who’ve received the seeds of good aren’t vigilant, they’re susceptible to the opposite seeds from the enemy of our life and these give rise to the weed of pride within us. ...
edited by Stelios Koukos) Archimandrite Avgoustinos Katsambiris had repeatedly asked the Elder (Saint Païsios the Athonite) to pray that the...
Part I – September 9 Beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time 1.Opening Session Will include the Keynote Address of Archbishop...
The Steering Committee of the “Patriarchal Network” The novel coronavirus has brought an overwhelming strain on public health systems throughout...
The Holy Eparchial Synod met today in an extraordinary video conference at the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros...
(edited by Stelios Koukos) Archimandrite Avgoustinos Katsambiris had repeatedly asked the Elder (Saint Païsios the Athonite) to pray that the newly-revealed Saint Vlasios, from Sklavaina, would appear to him. The archimandrite wanted to know what Saint Vlasios looked like, so that he could paint an icon of him. It was 21 January, 1980, the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, going on to Monday. While the Elder was praying in his kelli, with the komboskini, he saw an unknown saint appear before him, bathed in light and wearing a monastic mantle. Next to him, on the wall of his kelli, above the wood-stove, there were the remains of a monastery. The Elder felt indescribable joy and exultation and wondered who the saint was. Then ...
‘Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women’. (Acts 17, 4). When Paul preached in the synagogue in Thessaloniki, he was addressing the Jewish inhabitants of the city, in accordance with Christ’s instruction, which became standard practice for him: he would speak first to his co-religionists for whom he was especially concerned, judging by the epistles (Rom. 9-11). Thereafter he would turn his attention to the pagans. In the specific case of Thessaloniki, after Paul had preached for three Sabbaths in the synagogue, the results, as regards conversions, were limited: ‘some of them were persuaded’. But of the devout Greeks, that is those ...
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His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel told the Ecumenical Patriarch that the Romanian Patriarchate supports the preservation of the current status of...
The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Great Martyr Procopius. Procopius in Greek means «progress” or “advancement», a...
The Orthodox mission of north Madagascar, under the supervision of its Metropolitan, His Eminence Ignatios, continued to offer humanitarian support...
The Russian Church continues its significant charity and social work amid the ongoing pandemic, which has exacerbated social problems in...
The Archdiocese of Australia this week announced a temporary suspension in public worship at its parishes in the greater Melbourne...
Continued threats by the Erdogan administration in Turkey to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, the remaining and...
An eighth joint ministerial decision applying temporary measures for all places of worship in Greece, ones aimed to protect the...
While the Irish island of Little Skellig was long thought to have been inhabited by nothing but a variety of...