His Grace Silvester celebrated Holy liturgy at that Church of St. Spyridon in Nsinze which was commemorating there patron saint...
Once when I was there where I was, some foreign missionary came and said to me, “You may be a...
2. The theory of force. It would seem that the theory of force is more or less confined to Greece. Its supporters invoke the persecutions of the early Byzantine emperors against the pagan priests and schools. In other words, they cite events which took place after the fourth century, when the victory of Christianity was already assured. They overlook the fact that the conversion of the large urban centers had already taken place before there were ever any ‘Christian’ emperors to turn against ancient paganism. In the pre-Byzantine period exactly the opposite happened: Greeks became Christians despite the persecutions of the Roman state. What was the ethnicity of the pre-Byzantine martyrs. We don’t have any such specialist study on martyrology at our disposal, ...
Watch Fr Jonah’s from Taiwan sermon on the Apostolic reading for the 14th Sunday of Luke.
The synodical department of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church Relations with Society and Mass Media, in cooperation with...
The northern Bulgaria city of Pleven this week celebrated the 142nd anniversary of its liberation from Ottoman rule, and...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday received the Civil Governor of Mt. Athos,...
Thousands of mourners from around the world on Wednesday paid their respects and bid farewell to the Elder Ephraim...
On Sunday, December 8, 2019 His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Sts. Constantine and Helen Parish...
BALTIMORE, MD – With a refresh of its popular gift catalog, International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is offering gift-givers ways...
On 11th December 2019, in the Hall of Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow,...
The Montenegrin government submitted its controversial bill on religious freedom on Thursday, December 5 for consideration by the nation’s Parliament...
A free medical center for the homeless in Irkutsk was opened and consecrated recently in a joint project between the...
There’s no need for any special concentration in order to say the Jesus Prayer. It doesn’t require any effort if you have love of God. Wherever you are, on a stool, a chair, in a car, anywhere, on the road, at school, in the office, at work, you can say the prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me’. Gently, without pressure, without pushing. » Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
My child, always be careful, both when you are happy and when you are sad. When you are happy you...
When you pray for yourself or for somebody else, for spiritual benefit, such as, for example, to be freed from some form of torment or from your sins or bad habits, do so with your whole heart. And the Lord will give you what you want. » Saint John of Kronstadt
The holy Elder Porfyrios is an odd sort of saint. He was a monk in the world, he involved himself with an assortment of people, he embraced their pain and recognized them not from their outward appearance but from their soul. In this way he became first a people’s saint and then a saint of the Church. Before his canonization, believers, disbelievers and unbelievers who had felt his touch had already declared him to be a saint. It wasn’t the representatives of theology or the clergy who first wrote about the holy Elder. It was ordinary people who first wrote, talked and recognized him and they weren’t necessarily people ‘of the Church’. That may be because his very life was testimony ...
Thousands of mourners and Orthodox faithful are paying their last respects today to a beloved Elder Archimandrite who transformed a...
Mother Ecaterina from St Leontius of Radauti Settlement gave up her carrier and entered monasticism. She studied to become a...
The long-awaited 3rd Annual Orthodox Christian Youth and young adults Camp has been blessed and officially opened today by His...
