On Tuesday, December 9/22, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of Saint Anna’s conception. On this feast the Church commemorates...
The online Orthodox platform Pemptousia and the Orthodoxia news agency have begun posting documentaries, features and news footage from the...
The first online Synaxis, or assembly, from Mt. Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and...
Despite the dire situation and pandemic-restrictions in place, the Russian Orthodox Church has completed the construction of nine new churches...
The Metropolis of Sofia’s department of charity has commenced a program whereby clerics visit hospitals in the Bulgarian capital. The...
The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, this week issued a Christmas encyclical, in which he beseeched...
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday received Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias at the...
The Church today venerates the memory of Anastasia the Great Martyr. This saint, who hailed from Rome, through her intercessions,...
Bishop Vasilije of Srem ordained deacon Nikola Erceg to the rank of presbyter The feast day of Holy father Ncholas,...
When we listen to requests from Christians and the reasons why they pray, we see that often the dominant request is for health. Thousands of pieces of paper arrive at the Holy Preparation Table in all our churches, with this declared request. And in our everyday lives as well, when conversation turns to whatever is happening around us, we often end by saying: ‘As long as we have our health, we’ll manage’. It’s a top priority, the request for health. There are also a lot of people who have a confused way of looking at the Church and see it as a sort of extension of magic. They state openly that they go to church so that God will keep ...
“Save the world, O Saviour. For this you have come. Set your whole universe aright”. With the above words, Saint...
On Saturday, December 19, the feast of St. Nicholas of Myra in Lycia, a unique icon of the great wonderworker,...
For viewing anytime through midnight on 12/26, visit www.archcathedralchoir.com Due to the pandemic, this year the Archdiocesan Christmas Concert is...
Event Supported the Bishop Anthony Philoptochos Student Aid Endowment Fund The goal was simple. Help the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of...
Dear brothers and sisters You are invited to participate in the “4th e-Synaxis from Holy Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and the faithful of Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania “, which will take place Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 07:30-09:30 PM Athens Time. In this particular e-Meeting, Elder Ephraim will be more than happy to have a dialogue with younger people and children as well (as requested by the organizers). Elder Ephraim will talk in Greek and we will offer real-time Romanian interpretation for the entire session including the homily as well as the questions & answers. The e-Synaxis is organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA and Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca. Please register ...
The foundation of the Jesus Prayer can be found in the words of the Lord: ‘Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my Name: ask, and ye shall receive… Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name, he will give it you’ (John 16:24, 23). The more man is initiated in prayer the more he realises that the centre of all spiritual battle against the passions and the enemy is his very heart. In the Old Testament man is defined as a ‘deep heart’ (Ps. 64:6) which seeks ‘a spiritual and divine sensation’ (cf. Prov. 15:14 LXX). The way that leads to the deep heart goes through our physical heart. The relationship we find between the two is the same ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 07:30-09:30 PM Athens Time Dear brothers and sisters You are invited to participate in the «4th...
For Christians, there’s only one point to sorrows: atonement for our sins here on earth, through a variety of ailments, sorrow and pain, all for the purification and salvation of our soul. For the wicked, who have no desire to sort themselves out and to repent, these sorrows on earth are a portent of eternal suffering. Elder Cleopa Ilie
The work of Orthodox clerics and missionaries continues unabated in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the often difficult conditions in some...
The online platform Pemptousia and the Orthodoxia news agency, beginning today, will post documentaries, features and news footage from the...