In these dark nights of Winter, the brightest Star that ever shone arises. It glimmers in our hearts to illumine...
If you want to uproot the passions, it’ll hurt and you’ll bleed. Abba Pimin
Today we celebrate the memory of a great saint, the holy blessed virgin martyr Evyenia. She lived at the time of Decius, in the mid-third century, in Old Rome, the great world power of the time. Old Rome, because later came New Rome, Constantinople, which is why the Life makes the distinction, even though it had not yet occurred. Her parents were pagan but good-hearted and charitable people, and Evyenia was a good offshoot of theirs. She wasn’t Christian, but she had a Christian and kindly soul. Source: http://pyrography-falideas.blogspot.gr/ Her parents left Rome when the emperor sent her father, Philippos, to be governor of Alexandria, in the glorious city founded by Alexander the Great. Literature, the arts, culture and much else ...
Authorities in Greece remained on high alert this week in order to maintain restrictions imposed by the government to contain...
The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week spoke at an online conference focusing on the...
On the occasion of the great church holidays, the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, addressed a message...
The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, this week issued a Christmas encyclical. In the message, the...
The Church today venerates the memory of Ten Martyrs of Crete. These saints, all of whom hailed from the large...
From the bed of Sickness and onbehalf of the Diocese of Northern and Eastern Uganda,we wish to express our heartfelt...
A traditional melomakarona recipe! These Greek Christmas honey cookies (melomakarona) are super quick to bake, so much fun to make...
Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne president Bill Papastergiadis has farewelled Consul General Mr Dimitrios Michalopoulos following the end to his...
Clergy and student leadership representing over 15 colleges and universities throughout New England met on the evening of Monday, December...
X B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND...
On Thursday afternoon, December 17, the commemoration of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara and St. John of Damascus, His Grace,...
NEW YORK: On Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros convened a regularly scheduled Holy Eparchial Synod meeting in...
Prayer is the golden link. It joins Christians, who are wayfaring strangers on earth, to God, Who is the source of life, as well as to the spiritual world of which they’re members. Saint John Kronstadtskij
(Edited by Stelios Koukos) When you see people who are very worried, troubled and sad, even though they want for nothing, you should know that they want for God. If people have everything- material goods and health- but, instead of being grateful to God, make absurd demands on Him, they’re going to hell in a handcart. If people are grateful they’re satisfied with everything. Every day they think about what God’s given them and they enjoy everything. But if they’re ungrateful, nothing pleases them. They complain about everything and are in a constant bad temper. Let’s say they don’t appreciate the sunshine and complain. The north wind comes and freezes them. They don’t want the sun, they want the shivering that the north ...
The aim of the following paper is to explore how theology that emerged in Orthodox diaspora over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries shaped the attitude of Orthodox theology towards the West. I will analyse the emergence of Orthodox theology in diaspora in three phases: the Russian émigré theology of the 1920’s and 1930’s in Paris, Greek postcolonial theology of the 1960’s and 1970’s in Athens and American orthodox theology of the Orthodox diaspora of the 2000’s and 2010’s. The October revolution in 1917 had as a consequence one of the greatest intellectual migrations in history. From 1918 to 1923, two millions people were expelled from the country for political and ideological reasons, including a great number of the ...
“The Father was well pleased: the Word is become flesh, and the Virgin hath given birth unto God become...
On Tuesday, December 9/22, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of Saint Anna’s conception. On this feast the Church commemorates...
