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The first Sunday of Great Lent, called the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, was celebrated at the Nativity of...

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus, together with many hierarchs celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy at...

On February 28, at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary a public lecture, titled “Power and Those Born by Revolution” was...

Several churches in Bethlehem including the Church of the Nativity have been temporarily closed for 14 days according to an...

Some ‘progressive’ people see the Church as their enemy. But is there any person who has greater love and wants our happiness more than the Church does, more than God Himself does? The Church suffers with the soul and body of every Christian and takes care of everything proper to our nature and our good.

Pall Mall Gazette. 24 July 1885. p. 6. Great interest has, it is said, been caused at Folkestone and the neighborhood by the discovery in the parish church of what are believed to be the remains of St. Eanswith, patron saint of the church and the daughter of Eadbald, one of the Saxon Kings of Kent. Some workmen, in removing the plaster from a niche in the north wall, noticed that the masonry showed signs of having been disturbed at some period, and a further search was made. Taking away a layer of rubble and broken tiles a cavity was discovered and in this a battered and corroded leaden casket, oval shaped, about eighteen inches long and twelve inches broad, ...

Today’s Gospel certainly has nothing to say to those who embrace the modern ‘gospels’ of self-salvation, which derive from the demonic ‘gospel of the serpent’: ‘You can become gods without God’. The words of the reading will be heard with even greater indifference by those who espouse the lyrics of a modern Greek song: ‘Let me make a mistake; I don’t feel like being saved’. Self-centered, smug people strive to feel secure about themselves in artificial ways. In the end, they wind up telling lies not only to other people but also to themselves, in an effort to persuade all and sundry that they have no need of any savior. Do you want to be saved? Philip not only wanted to be ...

‘Lord, you have appointed repentance for me, the sinner, wishing in your boundless mercy to save me, unworthy though I am. I fall before you and pray: Humble my soul through fasting, for I have fled to you who alone are rich in mercy.’

The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has...

Guard your mouth, practice the Jesus prayer, show restraint and the Lord will envelop you with the priceless gift of His love.

The 13th edition of Days of Orthodox Cinema will open on March 10 with the film Portaitissa of Donetsk by director Natalia Batraeva....

‘Seeing clearly the sin that is in me, the scheming enemy hastens to act with me in sin. For he truly rejoices in my perdition. But grant me amendment of my life, I pray you, Savior, that I may confute him.’ (Matins, ode 5)

Palestinian officials announce state of emergency as number of infections rises to 16. The city of Bethlehem in the occupied...

“I am not angry at all, I’ve forgiven everyone from my heart and there is no hardness in me. There...

The attribute of true repentance is profound awareness, contrition, and sorrow in the heart which mourns not because it will go to hell but because it has saddened and angered through sin such a kindly and affectionate God and Father. It’s sighing, compunction, prayers, fasts, vigils, and tears. This repentance is genuine, true and beneficial.

Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said?...

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Eparchial Synod issue Guidelines on Covid-19 (Coronavirus) March 6, 2020 To the Right Reverend Hierarchs,...

‘Fasting in the body, let us also fast in the spirit, loosing the bonds of injustice. Let us abandon agreements made under duress. Let us break all unjust commitments. Let us give bread to the hungry. Let us welcome the homeless poor into our houses, so that we may gain great mercy from Christ our God.’ (Vespers, stikhiro)

Repent before death closes the door of your life and opens the door of the Judgment. Repent before death, and, because you don’t know the time of your death, repent today, this instant and don’t repeat your sin. In one of his prayers, Saint Efraim the Syrian says: Before the wheel of time stops turning in my life, have mercy upon me. Before the wind of death blows and sickness, death’s herald, makes its appearance in my body, have mercy upon me. Before the majestic sun in the heavens becomes darkness for me, have mercy upon me; and may Your light shine on me from above and drive out the gloomy darkness from my mind. Before the earth returns to the earth and decays, before ...