In English

“Your birth, Oh Theotokos, brought joy to the whole world, for from you dawned the sun of righteousness, Christ our God.  Freeing us from the curse, He gave us His blessings.  Abolishing death, He granted us eternal life.” Apolytikion (the Dismissal hymn) of the Nativity of the Theotokos The birth of the ever virgin and Mother of God, Mary, which is celebrated on the 8th of September, is the source of much spiritual joy.  The woman born, who will give birth “in flesh” to the pre-eternal God-the-Word, the Creator and Savior of the world, who abolished death so that we may have eternal life.   This joyous feast is not only shared with humanity, but the entire universe, which includes the invisible ...

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  In a related development, the Turkish government has issued yet another notification towards mariners, extending to Sept. 25, warning...

On his part, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, in a message posted on Twitter, noted that “…It was...

  In referring to the 1955 pogrom, the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday bemoaned the recent...

  The tragic 65-year anniversary of a pogrom against the Greek Orthodox communities of Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, was grimly observed...

Moreover, the latest in a continuing string of provocations and insults by the Erdogan administration against Christianity, and especially against...

  The Church today venerates the memory of Kassiani the Hymnographer, as well as celebrating the Fore-feast of the Nativity...

  The first feast day of the Elder Ephraim Katounakiotis, after his canonization by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical...

  Restoration works have finally begun at the historic St. George Greek Orthodox cathedral in the Egyptian port city of...

At the White House on Friday, Serbian and Kosovar leadership signed an agreement on economic normalization that President Trump hailed...

His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Sunday 6, 2020 at...

It was 65 years ago, at night, when the pogrom against the Greek community of Istanbul started. We remember those...

We must definitely compel our heart to pray, or else it’ll dry up completely The characteristic features of prayer are love for God, directness and simplicity. The same is true of the prayers we make to the saints.

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received His Excellency Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of...

Around Australia, thousands of Greeks celebrate Father’s Day. Father’s Day truly honours fatherhood – fathers, pappou’s (grandfathers) and those who...

Camp Agape. Two small words, yet they are full of power and love. For over 35 years, Camp Agape has...

The Commemoration of the Miracle Wrought by Archangel Michael in Colossae, in Church of Archangels of George, Southern Cape, South...

Christ used the image of the vineyard rather than that of any other tree or plant, because he was preparing the faithful to understand that wine, the fruit of the vine, would be given at the Last Supper, so that it would be exactly the same as His blood and so that the faithful would be joined together over the centuries with Him and among themselves. They would be blood relatives, united in His precious and all-pure blood. In today’s Gospel, Christ foretells His voluntary Passion, and prophecies His Crucifixion, which will be the act of committing the vineyard, that is His Church, into the hands of people who believe in Him and who act as living witnesses to the faith, ...

Watch the second part of Fr Jonah’s from Taiwan sermon on the Gospel of Matthew 19, 16-26.