The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week attended an event focusing on the missionary work conducted by Orthodox...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said his government will place anyone arriving from overseas into quarantine –...
As the Orthodoxia news agency first reported a day earlier, members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of...
To the priests, deacons, monastics and laity, the beloved children of the Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, Grace, mercy, and...
JONATHAN JACKSON | 10 MARCH 2020 I would like to briefly express what the Orthodox Church means to me,...
Sloth, stubbornness or any other passion is followed by commensurate punishment. When my internal disposition is out of sorts with God, with His sanctity, I feel the punishment within me, in my heart, like a burning fire.
NEW YORK – On March 8, 2020, eleven Orthodox hierarchs from various canonical jurisdictions concelebrated the Divine Liturgy on the...
When we commemorate the saints for the first Sunday in Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy (when we read the Synaxari), we see: on that day, the first Sunday of the Fast, we commemorate the memory of the restoration of the holy and venerable icons, effected by the Emperors of Constantinople, Michael and his mother Theodora, of blessed memory, in the reign of Saint Methodios the Confessor, Patriarch’. In other words, we celebrate the adoption of the feast of Orthodoxy, which was established triumphantly by the Synod of Hierarchs residing in Constantinople on 11 March 843. In establishing this feast, the Synod applied the resolutions of the 7th Ecumenical Synod. But the hymns for the feast don’t refer exclusively to the ...
The «Delphi» chapter of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) this week honored Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros,...
‘The pure and undefiled fast has now come upon us and brings us to the celebration of the martyr’s miracles. Through the fast our souls are cleansed from filth and defilement and through the martyr’s miracles and feats we are emboldened to fight bravely against the passions. Illumined, therefore, by the grace of holy abstinence and by the wondrous works of the martyr Theodore, we are fortified by our faith in Christ and beseech Him to award salvation to our souls.’ (Matins Aposticha)
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Thousands of people again held peaceful protests in cities around Montenegro to show their opposition to a controversial law that...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Most Reverend Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of...
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Sunday referred to what he called a «powerful distortion»...
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, referred to the unprecedented situation on...
The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Monday, with sessions to continue until Wednesday, amid...
Members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Monday officially announced the canonization of three Athonite...
Members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Monday officially announced the canonization of Elder Iosif...
This was also the last Divine Liturgy of His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Heliopolis before his retirement back to Greece...
The first Sunday of Great Lent, called the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, was celebrated at the Nativity of...
