The president of the Palestinian territories, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday received Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem. During the meeting, Abbas referred...
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, the head of the latter’s liaison office in Athens, Metropolitan Amfilochios of Adrianople, this week tendered his...
Orthodox Churches around the world that follow the Julian calendar today celebrate the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus...
The Church today venerates Makarios the Great of Egypt, as well as Makarios of Alexandria, two renowned ascetics of the...
Georgian cultural centre will be launched on a plot of land gifted by Jordan’s royal family to the country, with...
The Russian version of the book entitled Ukrainskiy tserkovniy vopros (Ukrainian church issue) has come out. It continues a series...
My Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Here at the commencement of the New Year of 2022 – which is...
Saint Augustine, FL: Maintaining the traditions and customs of the first Greek settlers that arrived on the American continent, St....
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the repose in the Lord of the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Stavrovouni,...
The Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa is preparing to officially notify and brief the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, via...
The Church today venerates Athanasios the Great and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria. The Church celebrates the memory of these two...
In hopes of reviving a dormant tradition, three Chicago parish communities came together on Sunday, January 16, to bless Lake...
On the occasion of the patronal feast day of His Eminence our Archbishop Makarios of Australia, we take this opportunity...
If we bear all our sorrows, we find grace from the Lord. This is why the Lord allows us to be tested: so that we may be tried and he can weave crowns for us. Saint Iosif the Hesychast
Nowadays, from all the studying they do, people end up as tape-recorders and they fill their cassettes with superfluous things. But, according to Abba Isaac, teaching without action is a ‘legacy of shame’. Saint Païsios the Athonite
Very often, what we say is limp and weak. If we want to transmit what we’re saying and make it lively, it has to be incarnate. When, with what you say, you give your flesh and blood to other people, then, and then alone, will your words say something. Archimandrite Vasileios Gontikakis
Of course, good works are not of value when ‘they fall as crumbs from our table’. You don’t give alms from the surplus you have, but from something which will cost you a little. Alms-giving also means hardship and effort. This is why, when Christ saw the widow’s mite, he said: ‘She has put more than anyone into the treasury’. Others put in what they had to spare, but for her it was as if she put in everything she owned, since that was all she had. It’s a good thing if good works involve effort and sacrifice. Metropolitan Athanasios Limassol
When we observe Christ’s commandments, we don’t offer him anything, because he needs nothing since he himself confers all good things. What we do is to benefit ourselves by bringing upon us eternal life and the enjoyment of ineffable blessings. Saint Theodoros of Edessa
Between us and God there’s a wall. This wall is called ‘Me’. This is what doesn’t let God enter. God’s repelled. Get down on your knees, pray, keep a vigil and then see if God doesn’t listen! Hieromonk Chrysostomos Stavronikitianos
