On March 18. 2020, the government of Uganda has suspended with immediate effect, Church services for a period of one...
All face-to-face classes on campus in Redfern (NSW) and the Melbourne facilitation classes hosted at St John’s College in Preston...
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has released a statement to the faithful regarding...
H. E. Archbishop Elpidophoros of America sent a letter to H. E. Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco regarding the Divine...
We must embrace the change. It is pointless to continuously resist. We must cut off our will in front of...
Your Graces, beloved fathers and beloved children, With pain of soul, but at the same time, with a sense of...
Brother hierarchs and beloved children in the Lord, From the Phanar, from the heart of the Queen of Cities,...
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As this Coronavirus crisis continues to spread and intensify on a global scale, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is monitoring the situation...
Wayne, West Virgina, March 18, 2020 As Orthodox parishes continue to severely reduce their liturgical schedules or close altogether, a...
A team of specialists briefed the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, over the ongoing pandemic, with a later...
Moscow-area parishes, in cooperation with social workers, are organizing the delivery of food stuffs and medicines to elderly people...
The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, in similar fashion with other Orthodox Churches around the region, announced that cathedrals...
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America held a prayer service at the Archdiocese Chapel of St. Paul, in New York City,...
The daily lives of billions of people around the world have been severely affected by the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak,...
The Church today venerates the memory of Cyril, Patriarch of Jerusalem. This Saint was born in 315, and succeeded Maximus...
Daddy George gathered his family and said: There is an epidemic named Corona, which is a contagious virus. The state...
In the evening, in the first quarter of the hour after Ten, when nature slips into darkness’ tranquility, it is...
I don’t know by what means or method I can bind this friend of mine (i.e. the body) and condemn him. Because, before I can bind him, he gets free and before I can condemn him, I’m reconciled to him. Before I can punish him, I feel sorry for him, become reconciled to him and soften towards him. How can I defeat him, whom by nature I love? How can I free myself from him to whom I’m bound eternally. How can I get rid of him, who will be raised with me? (Ladder 15, 83).
The unity of the soul and mind is what makes our human existence special. Never before has there ever been anyone else exactly like you. Nor will there ever be again. Each of us is unique and inimitable in the whole history of the human race. There is, of course, the point that no-one is irreplaceable, but this is wrong. If we’re talking about work, we aren’t concerned with replacement but succession. At work, people can be replaced, but as far as our very existence is concerned, we’re irreplaceable. This is precisely why, in the Gospel, Christ says this about the value of our soul: ‘What good will it do someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what ...
