† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND...
† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: MAY THE GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY OF CHRIST RISEN IN GLORY BE WITH YOU ALL * * * Dearest brother Hierarchs and beloved children in the Lord, Having arrived at Holy Pascha and becoming partakers of the joy of the Resurrection, we praise the Lord of glory, who trampled down death by death and resurrected with Him the entire race of Adam, opening for us all the gates of paradise. The splendid Resurrection of Christ is the confirmation that what prevails in the life of the world is not death, but the Savior who abolished the dominion of death. Formerly known ...
The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church’s Society and Mass Mediа Relations, Vladimir Legoida, said Russian Orthodox clerics...
The Orthodoxia News Agency continues to post features and videos on the pilgrimage sites and sacred paths in Jerusalem, given...
The ritual of the Washing of Feet was again held on Holy and Great Thursday, according to the ancient rites...
For us, Christians, who are illumined and enlightened in Christ, everything in this world has value and meaning only insofar as it’s a means and path to eternity. Because we see what’s not apparent and gaze upon the invisible. We regulate the whole of our lives in time on the basis of that which is eternal, what is human on the basis of the God/human. As long as there is something eternal within the sphere of the temporal, that’s what we live off. But when that’s missing, we’ll seek it beyond time, in the kingdom of the unending and invisible. We gaze upon everything through the prism of eternity, that is, through the prism of Christ, since He is the eternal God and ...
The descent in the Orthodox dogmatic system There is evidence for the Orthodox dogma of Christ’s descent into Hades both in Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition, though it is vague and general. Holy Scripture does not define in strictly dogmatic terms the details of the Redeemer’s descent into the kingdom of the dead, instead using general and symbolic expressions; nor did the ancient Church develop this dogma based on the Apostolic Tradition, since there was no reason to. The ancient Church Fathers occasionally made reference to the dogma of the descent, but not leave us with specific, systematic treatises concerning it. Instead, they were content to repeat the relevant passages in Scripture and the experience of the dogma in the worship ...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Holy Thursday officiated at the service of the Holy...
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There’s more grace in one of God’s little flowers that in a whole bunch of artificial paper ones. In the same way, the immaterial differs greatly from the nylon. » Venerable Païsios the Athonite
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The Greek government’s top coordinator and spokesman on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, infectious diseases professor Sotiris Tsiodras, devoted time...
Today is Thursday of Holy and Great Easter Week. In the evening, which was the eve of the feast of...
In a Patriarchal Encyclical on Holy Pascha, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, noted that the serious coronavirus...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in his message to the Orthodox faithful for Easter, stressed that “…During a time of great...
The Metropolitan of Messinia, His Eminence Chrysostomos, spoke this week with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki. In...
The online magazine Pempousia on Wednesday evening also hosted the first Internet broadcast of composer Giorgos Theofanous’ oratorium, entitled «Panagia, Τhe Mother of Light»,...
On Holy Wednesday afternoon, April 2/15, 2020, at 5.00 p.m., after the Service of the Small Compline, at the...
Struggle to live in such a way that at the hour of death you’ll have more joy than sorrow. Love death as a friend who will bring you closer to Christ » Elder Arsenie Boca (of Romania)
Moscow, April 15, Interfax – The Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called will bring the Holy Fire to Moscow from...
