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Is the death of the body a prerequisite for entry into the Kingdom of Christ, then? How can we develop our ability to live in accordance with Christ’s commandments, in accordance with the Holy Spirit? One thing alone is important: we must guard the intensity of our prayer and our repentance. Then death won’t be a rupture, but a transition to the Kingdom, for which we’ll have been prepared by communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, through prayer and through the invocation of His Name: ‘Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy upon us and on Your world’.

I met the Elder for the first time in 1950. , though I didn’t have the opportunity to get to know him well personally at that time. But everybody talked about his sanctity. In 1955, when I went back to Filotheou, I went to see him in his kelli on the second day, but, unfortunately, he wasn’t there. I left a few things outside his door and returned to the monastery, being careful not to be seen by anyone, because I didn’t want the fathers to think I went round the kellia taking things and so on. The next day, in the afternoon, Elder Avgustin came to the monastery and asked for me: ‘Where’s Father Païsios?’ The fathers were surprised and said: ‘We haven’t really ...

The Gospel reading for 2nd Luke comes from the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, in which almost all Jesus’ teaching during his public ministry is gathered together, emphasis is placed on the overall context of the Christian life. Here, in the Gospel according to Saint Luke, in which events are set out in their historical time-line, that is in the order in which they happened, we have another, interesting tradition. Luke splits up the Sermon and draws the attention of the faithful to the central point in each part. Today, the reference point is how to live love. Faith and the essence of Christian ethics find their recognition. The criterion for veracity is love. In the previous ...

Due to the current circumstances related to the epidemic in our country, Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary has started its...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia asks the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin to organize a broad public discussion...

On 28th – 29th September 2020, the 6th International Research to Practice Conference on Orthodoxy in the Far East was held in St....

On 29th September 2020, Bishop Pitirim of Jakarta, vicar of the Singapore diocese, met with Mr. Azis Nurwahyudi, Charge d’affaires of...

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent a message of greetings to the Primate of the Romanian...

In the bid to enhance capacity in performance and management of Uganda Orthodox Church Medical facilities, UOMB with funding from...

On Saturday and Sunday, 26-27 September, 2020, on the great feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Creating Cross...

On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, a regular session of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia...

His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, on Sunday, September 27, 2020, celebrated the Great Feast of the Elevation of...

His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyayeira and Great Britain participated at the Athens Democracy Forum entitled, “The New Abnormal: Reimagining...

He’s got a permanent job in the civil service, he tells you. What’s that compared to eternity? Have we got ourselves a permanent place there, too?

Three enemies wage war on the human race: the demons, our own nature and habit. Other than those, there’s no other warfare. If you could take away the demon who tyrannizes the whole of humankind, then we’d all be good. He’s the one you should wrong. He’s the one you should hate, condemn and have as your enemy to the end. As we’ve said, the other enemy is our own nature, which, from the moment we understand the world, takes up a position against the law of the spirit and demands whatever will lead to the loss of our soul. So there’s another enemy which deserves to be hated as long as you live. You should condemn it, denounce it. And then we ...

The holy hieromartyr Dionysios was a member of the Court of Areios Pagos, and was more prominent than anyone else because of his wealth, fame, prudence and wisdom. He embraced faith in Christ when he heard Saint Paul preach on the rock of the Areios Pagos and received holy baptism. He was consecrated bishop of Athens, succeeding the holy and wise Ierotheos on the Episcopal throne. From his predecessor, Dionysios learned divine and confidential mysteries of our faith. And thus, the saint left very important, strange and wonderful writings. We shall mention here, as a small example, certain elements of only one of his works. Saint Dionysios the Areopagite, 16th Century fresco, Monastery of Stavronikita, Holy Mountain Athos In one of his ...

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The very important missionary work of the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe and Angola continues, under the blessing of the Metropolitan,...

Members of the Episcopal council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro met on Thursday with legal experts in order...

Public debate has began over a draft bill that includes a provision changing the status of churches and chapels within...