Prologue from The Truth of Our Faith: A Discourse from Holy Scripture on the Teachings of True Christianity, by Elder...
Most of the faithful don’t know about this feast. Apart from priests and a few other Christians who are more closely involved with the Church, most don’t even know of its existence. Few go to church on the day and most of them don’t even suspect that the Wednesday after the Sunday of the Paralytic is celebrated by the Church as a great feast of the Lord, the Feast of Mid-Pentecost. And yet this feast was once a major feast of the Great Church of Constantinople and crowds of people attended it. Giotto, Christ among the Teachers You only have to open On the Administration of the Empire, by Konstantinos Porfyroyennitos to see the official rite for the celebration of the feast, ...
‘I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely’. During Great Lent, to a certain degree, we taste of Christ’s death. In the middle of this period, the Church institutes the Veneration of the Precious Cross, to quicken inspiration and strengthen us in our struggle to be vouchsafed to enter into the life-giving presence of the Risen Lord. We are reminded that it was through the Cross that joy and the Resurrection came into the world. In the middle of the period of the Pentecostarian, we celebrate Midpentecost, which ignites our thirst for the Light of the Comforter, and confirms our determination, so we persevere in prayer with ever-increasing yearning, ‘until we are ...
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Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of...
The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, met and made joint statements this week with the...
The Metropolitan of Nairobi and Exarch of Kenya, His Eminence Makarios, spoke with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist...
And Peter said to him, ‘Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your pallet.’ And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Why do people seek miracles in their lives in order to believe? Is it only the effect of our reason that makes us doubt what we all fundamentally know to be true, that is, the presence of God? Is it the pressure caused by our surroundings, especially people we trust and who influence us; or a feeling that we have to live the experience of proof ourselves and that it’s not enough to know the experience of others who have lived the miracle of faith ...
GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF NEW JERSEY Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of...
Show your love simply, without spoiling it with cunning thoughts, without secular or self-serving calculations. Remember that God Himself is love, that He sees all things and follows all the thoughts and motions of your heart.
NEW YORK – Two graduation ceremonies will be held online with the participation of the Archbishop Elpidophoros of America...
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Ascension Greek Orthodox Church Parking Lot, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, is among the locations scheduled...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Sunday expressed his hope that the faithful will be able to attend the divine services shortly....
Christians in Lebanon returned to cathedrals and chapels for worship after two months, as the government moved towards a gradual...
A trisagion service was held on Saturday at the memorial to the Unknown Soldier in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi,...
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has once again been targeted by Turkish media, with the latest provocative and offensive article...
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The bells of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Alexandria again rang joyously on Sunday after 11 years –...
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told the Jerusalem Post over the weekend that although no decision has been taken, as...
Another session of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece is scheduled for Tuesday, ahead of...
