In his Homily on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, referred to...
Today is the fifth Monday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the Eight Holy...
At the request of a coronavirus patient, the Orthodox priest, who serves as chaplain at Timisoara’s infectious diseases hospital, put...
The Romanian Orthodox faithful were blessed to begin attending open-air services on Friday May 15, following a period of quarantine...
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the day of Mid-Pentecost, in response to pleas by many Orthodox Christians and with the...
Every year on May 17, the Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates Family Purity Day, traditionally with a large procession through the...
Encyclical Note of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Christ is Risen! In the...
Pemptousia, Orthodoxia News Agency stress need to unite our voices, strengthen presence of Orthodox world amid pandemic. The editors and staff of both the online magazine Pemptousia, which focuses on Orthodoxy, scholarly research and culture, as well as the Orthodoxia News Agency have become aware of the crucial need for all of us to unite our voices and to strengthen the presence of the Orthodox world, especially now amid this ominous pandemic. Moreover, the International Association of Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care is participating, along with its members, associates, researchers, lecturers and clerics, in this initiative with Pemptousia and the Orthodoxia News Agency. Today we present an article by Fr. Bassam Nassif, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology, University of Balamand and Member of ...
Original Article Ioannis-Eleemon Papagiannopoulos-Vatopaidinos, Maria Papagiannopoulou – Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Vassilis Sideris – Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece; Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece Journal: Complementary Medicine Research Editor: Karger Verlag Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to provide a deeper in- sight into dry fasting (DF) physiology. Design: Ten participants performed DF for 5 consecutive days. Methods: The following parameters were monitored daily: cortisol, aldosterone, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), erythropoietin, albumin, uric acid, and vitamin C in serum; vasopres- sin (ADH), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), renin, an- giotensin II, and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in plasma; hematocrit and erythrocytes in whole blood; osmolality, nor- adrenaline, dopamine, adrenaline, Na+, and K+ in 24-h urine; waist circumference ...
Turkey is once again on a U.S. State Department’s “Special Watch List” in the 2020 Annual Report by the United...
Hundreds of Greek Australian parishioners flocked to church on Sunday after weeks of staying away, as a ban on mass...
Do you want to live properly? Make sure you’re humble, because unless you are, you can’t live properly. We distance ourselves from God by abandoning humility. Love humility and you’ll never fall into the devil’s traps.
In accordance with the ancient tradition of the Church, as established by Saint Pachomius in Egypt, the monastic way of life in monasteries is communal. Communal worship, communal table, labor/obedience in common and a common Father. Apart from the Niptic life, the communal way of life of monastics also preserves the common eschatological experience of the early Church in Jerusalem where ‘all… were together in one place and had everything in common’ (Acts, 2 44). Any deviation which undermines the authentic common life of monasteries is held to be a sign of degeneration in their spiritual life. The idiorrhythmic way of running monasteries on Athos arose in times of great difficulties and decline, as a dispensation to allow the monasteries to ...
In Jordan there was a very simple priest who performed miracles. He’d read prayers over people and animals that were sick in some way and they’d recover. Muslims went to him as well, if they had a health problem, and he’d cure them. Before he served the Liturgy, he’d drink a herbal tea and nibble on a little toasted bread. Then he wouldn’t eat anything for the rest of the day. The Patriarch heard that he ate before the Divine Liturgy and called him in to the Patriarchate. He went, though he didn’t know why he’d been called. While he was waiting for the Patriarch to call him, he sat with some others in a room. It was very hot and they had the blinds ...
The International Association of Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care is participating, along with its members, associates, researchers, lecturers and...
Today’s Gospel extract refers to the dialogue Jesus Christ had with a Samaritan woman, who was in fact considered by...
Beirut’s Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Archbishop, Elias Aoude, presided over Sunday Mass service at St. George’s Cathedral in Central Beirut this...
The public must avoid crowding in churches which could result in spreading the coronavirus, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Sunday. In...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman May 17, 2020 Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox...
Over the past week, Greek Orthodox churches across Australia have been organising efficient procedures to allow worshipers to attend Sunday...
