Metropolises around Greece continue stepped up efforts to aid those in need amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the strict...
The Church today also venerates the memory of Joseph the hymnographer. St. Joseph was born in Sicily in the ninth...
Today marks the 5th Friday of Great Lent, where the 24 «oikoi», or stanzas, each one beginning with the next...
Another clergyman has been infected with coronavirus. The bishop of the eparchy of North America, Saba Intskirveli, said the above...
The rule of communion is a canonical and traditional issue that can be changed, but only by the supreme hierarchy...
Andria Jaghmaidze, Head of Press Center of Georgian Patriarchate said that heads of churches will be given 3 recommendations today....
“Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said that the government will do its best to solve the problem for Easter. May...
The Metropolitan of Bessarabia urged ‘all those who feel Romanian to intensify their prayers’ and remember the founders of the...
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has met with the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, to discuss...
Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk backed up the idea of hierarchs from other dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church...
On Sunday, March 16/29, 2020, 4th Sunday of Lent, the feast of the Precious and Life-giving Cross was celebrated by...
On Wednesday afternoon, March 19/April 1, 2020, on the 5th week of Great Lent, the Great Canon was chanted during...
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will hold its 2020 Palm Sunday and Easter services outside churches, it emerged after a meeting...
We may not be able to leave our homes and we cannot go to our local churches, but we can...
Despair! A terrible word, a word that denotes catastrophe, and a concatenation of all woes. There’s nothing worse than despair. When people are in despair, they never run and try to find a cure. They leave the passion untreated, they allow it to become infected, to eat away at their hearts and to corrode their soul.
The fifth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to Saint Mary the Egyptian. This Mary is a unique and eternal example of repentance and of rehabilitation and perfection in Christ. As we enter the final straight towards the Spotless Passion, and the Life-Bearing Resurrection of Our Lord, the need for proper preparation through repentance, so that we can experience in a redemptive manner the Cross and Resurrection, becomes ever more urgent and imperative. This is why, on this Sunday, the Church highlights the figure and example of Saint Mary, in order to provide the help we need. So who was this Mary that the Orthodox Church has found to be of such great importance that we celebrate her memory twice, on the ...
a) These days, there are many theologians, clergymen and lay people who compose and publish texts. Some, however, who aren’t aware of the gravity of what they’re writing, follow the secular practice of competitive journalism. With smugness and pride, they count the number of hits their sites have received, turning theological discourse into commercial news. Not infrequently, they debase the divine word. b) Acrimony, hostility, insinuation, ill will, abuse of those who disagree, unfounded allegations and generalities are used without let or hindrance, and these people often ‘bite and devour one another’ (Gal. 5, 15). And we never fear that, perhaps, as we’re tearing our flesh and expending our theological powers, we may be outside the Patristic tradition which we invoke ...
First of all, we must understand that the idea of patron saints or protectors is not fixed or predetermined. Over...
The tragic death over the weekend of a 12-year-old girl from the coronavirus near Ghent has generated intense concern on...
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