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The President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, sent a greeting to the newly elected Archbishop of Pec,...

An old monk by the name of Ioakeim, from the Monastery of Grigoriou, writes: I’d made my final decision and left secretly for the Holy Mountain. The journey was uneventful. I passed through and visited a lot of monasteries and sketes and carefully studied the way of life in each. Having collected much valuable information I decided to become a monk at the Holy Monastery of Blessed Gregory. Before I entered the monastery, I was very tired, so I went to lie down in the shade in a place that was both sheer and hard to reach, just above Yiftario. But I couldn’t get to sleep no matter how I tried. Sleep wouldn’t come. One flight of the imagination after another, one thought ...

On February 18, 2021, His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, had a telephone talk with Metropolitan Porfirije...

To date, no attempt has been made to translate liturgical and Patristic texts into the Ethiopian Amharic language. However, with...

If you immerse wood in oil, it doesn’t rot.  If children are immersed in reverence and the fear of God they’ll want for nothing for the rest of their life. When they’re cheeky towards their elders, they chase out God’s grace, turn nasty and cause trouble. Saint Païsios the Athonite

To be saved, you have to become humble. Even if you forcibly put proud people into paradise, they still won’t be content. Even there they won’t be satisfied, but will say: ‘Why am I not at the top?’ Humble souls, on the other hand, are full of love. They don’t seek the limelight, want what’s best for everyone and are satisfied with everything. Saint Silouan the Athonite

Some, who’ve been praised by others for their virtue, have been pleased and have taken the pleasure of vainglory to be divine comfort. Others, who’ve been chastised over a sin, have been hurt and they’ve taken the beneficial pain to be the action of evil. Saint Mark the Ascetic

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The Holy Relic of St. Filothei the Athenian has been placed for veneration by the faithful, ahead of Friday’s feast...

Holy Hierarchal Liturgy, at which the solemn act of enthronement of His Holiness Porfirije into the holiest throne of the...

The French National Assembly this week approved draft legislation with the stated purpose of reinforcing “republican principles” , although the...

The Russian Patriarchal representative to the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, Igumen – or Abbot – Arsenios Sokolov,...

Philanthropic initiatives of the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain continued this month, despite the inclement weather conditions and the...

The Church today venerates the memory of Leo the Great, Pope of Rome. This Saint wrote many works in Latin....

By the Grace of God, His Holiness-elect Zagreb Porfirije Perić (Serbian Cyrillic: Порфирије Перић; born 22 July 1961) has been...

On the 16th of February, 2021, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, took...

The Crisis in Family Life Today The institution of marriage is everywhere in crisis today. Saint John Chrysostom, whose demise 1600 years ago we commemorate this year, is considered to be the creator of the theology of everyday life. In this article, we present the views and advice of Saint John on the most important aspect of everyday life, the family. God foreknew what would follow the creation of humankind and so he made us biologically prepared for ‘the communion of marriage’. The creation initially refers only to Adam (1). Saint John remarks that Moses does not use the word ‘made’ when he speaks about Eve, but ‘constructed’, wishing to show that she was of the same substance as Adam, not from ...

People who want to “stir up” the society are trying to use church themes for their own purposes, but the...

The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed concern over reports about innocent passers-by having been held during illegal street protests. «I...

A fire broke out at the Holy Transfiguration Valaam Monastery yesterday. It destroyed a garage with cars and other equipment,...