Dear friends, You are invited to participate in the «1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy Monastery...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel cast his ballot Sunday to elect a new bicameral parliament for the next four years....
Paul S. Sarbanes, the son of Greek immigrants who rose the ranks of the Democratic Party becoming one of the...
BRUSSELS – Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, along with the Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical...
Today’s Gospel reading is a clear and obvious condemnation of religious formalism. Saint Luke the Evangelist tells us that Christ healed people on the Sabbath and that this brought Him into conflict with the Judaism of His era, which had transformed the Ten Commandments and the Law into a barren system of obligations and restrictions. The absurdity in the reactions of the religious establishment was tragic. The leader of the synagogue was indignant because the Lord’s miracle breached the rules for the observation of the Sabbath, which came from God. So the message of today’s excerpt touches and concerns all of us, since we often, perhaps subconsciously, prioritize certain religious and ritual forms without any corresponding sensitivity in our heart or ...
‘We don’t shoot the darkness; we just turn the light on’ (Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis) The great contemporary saint and much-loved Elder Porfyrios is talking about an ordinary experience: if we want to get out of the dark, we don’t take violent action, such as taking potshots at it. All we do is turn the light on. He said this in order to emphasize that the same is true in the spiritual life. What’s that? Given that we live in a world which, because of sin, has lost contact with the light which is God, and are therefore living in spiritual darkness- ‘God is light and there is no darkness in Him’ - the only thing we can do is to turn ...
Within an atmosphere of spiritual joy and emotion, the celebrating parish of St Nicholas in Canberra revealed a new chapter...
Our soul must taste the sweetness of Grace. How unjustly we treat ourselves when we don’t try to find this sweetness of Grace. Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
Since the beginning of this week, maintenance and restoration works are underway at the Holy Monastery of “Axion Esti” in...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Friday condemned Turkey’s July 13 unilateral decision to change the...
On Saturday, December 5, feast of Saint Savvas the Sanctified, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided over Matins, served the Divine...
The small, round chapel of Agios Nikolaos Thon, very near the corner of Alexandras and Kifissias Avenues, was turned over...
Greek National Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos attended the celebrations honoring the Navy’s patron, Saint Nicholas, at the Navy Cadet school...
December 5, 2020 Beloved ones, On the threshold of the Nativity of the Lord in the cave, we bid farewell...
I never saw anyone corrected with anger, but always with love. Then the person being admonished is also sacrificed. Saint Iosif the Heychast
Jesus taught in the synagogues on the Sabbath. The reason behind His choice of day was that the Sabbath was a day without work, dedicated to the worship of God. All tasks were completely forbidden. Even the distance you could walk was strictly regulated. So all the people gathered on those days in the synagogue in order to hear the word of God. One Sabbath, in one of the synagogues, a woman stood out from the crowd. Her body was badly bent over, so that she couldn’t stand up straight: ‘she could not straighten up at all’ (Luke 13, 11). For 18 years she hadn’t been able to look at people properly because of the problem. It was heart-breaking. Her ...
His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostom of Dabar-Bosnia, was admitted to the Clinical Hospital Center “Dr Dragisa Misovic” in Belgrade on Friday...
My Beloved Ones, Here in Atlanta, and across much of the Holy Metropolis, we are experiencing the beginning of cold...
The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity presents, under the High Patronage of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America: «God...
It is unimaginable that hunger continues to exist in America. To help the thousands of at-risk youth in Baltimore who...
