More than 170 earthquake victims have been hosted by the Orthodox Monastery of St. Vlash (St. Blaise), in the Durres...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, directly referred to the granting of the Tomos of Autocephaly...
The Archbishop of America has arrived in Tampa ahead of Monday’s Epiphany celebration. Archbishop Elpidophoros was enthroned in 2019,...
If we seek God in simplicity and humility, then the Lord will send His Angel or His star to each...
Communique of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church JANUARY 5, 2020 While preparing to celebrate...
Greece’s Foreign Ministry announced today that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kostas Vlasis will represent the government at the celebration...
Traditionally, the great feast of the Epiphany marks the end of the extended period of Christmas holidays in Greece. Each year on...
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago announced that, beginning January 1, 2020, at least one parish in the Metropolis will...
His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released a statement regarding hate crimes. Read the full text below: ...
‘The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ…’. Just the use of the word ‘beginning’ in today’s Gospel reading takes us, by association, to the start of a new year, the festal resonance of which we’re still experiencing, since we crossed the threshold a mere few days ago. The Christian concept of time In olden days, people were at a loss in the face of the dark enigma which is time. They tried to explain it with philosophy and science. As life passes and time rolls on, we’re horrified when we realize the vanity of yesterday, the transitory nature of today and the uncertainty of tomorrow. This is because the past is lost, the present fades, because every one of its moments ...
You have to practice if you’re to recognize immediately through the movement of your heart what’s approaching you- good or ill. It should be the same as recognizing something salty or unsalted, sweet or sour with your tongue.
The modern double-headed eagle flag for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and of Mount Athos, features the eagle with a...
On Jan 4, 2020, at the occasion of these glorious feasts, His Beatitude Patriarch John X met with the clergy...
(As told by Saint Iosif the Hesychast): Once I was kneeling at the window, as I usually did, saying the Jesus Prayer. It was late at night in the summer and I had the window open. Once I’d collected my thoughts, and was saying the prayer with great serenity, my mind opened and I was able to see wherever I wanted, without hindrance. I saw our own Father Athanasios on the road from Saint Ann’s Skete, coming towards the house with a cloth bag. I accompanied him all the while and was with him all the way. The brotherhood of Saint Iosif the Hesychast (seated centre with a walking-stick). From the left: Fr. Athanasios, Hieromonk Efraim (Filotheou and Arizona), Elder Arsenios, Elder Iosif ...
Saint Efraim, whose secular name was Konstantinos Morfis, was born in Trikala, on 14 September 1384 in an idyllic place near the River Lithaios. He lost his father at a young age and he and his seven siblings were brought up, with God’s help, by his mother. At the age of 14, in order to escape enforced conversion to Islam and enlistment in the corps of Janissaries, he entered the then flourishing Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God on the Mountain of the Spotless in Attica. Saint Efraim followed Christ with fervent zeal and stood out for the luminosity of his life and his ascetic efforts in the monastery, in the neighborhood of ...
Concerning the latest developments in Montenegro, regarding the adoption of the draft Law on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the...
Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro “…Terrible injustice is being imposed against the Serbian Orthodox Church;...
With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of...
On Friday morning, December 21-2019/ January 3-2020, Matins was held at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen of...
Archpriest Milosav Jovanovic: the Gentiles rose to persecute the Church of Christ, to persecute Christ from Montenegro. After an acathist...
