Border security was at the highest level on Greece’s land borders with Turkey on Tuesday, especially at the Kastanies border...
I alone have labored in sin; I alone have opened the gate of the passions. Forgiving Word, turn me back and, of Your loving-kindness, save me. (Matins, Ode 1).
Regional TOTs (Trainer of Trainers) from the different Uganda Orthodox Church Mother’s Union (UOCMU) communities were engaged in practical training...
His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia is currently in the midst of an 8-day visit to America. His itinerary includes...
Images are emerging of a Greek Orthodox church in Lesvos which was vandalised by refugees. On Monday, more than 500...
The Youth Assemble conference 2020 brought together hundreds of Greek Orthodox youth, aged in their late teens, twenties and thirties....
Each of us will have an opinion about God that’s commensurate with the measure of the Grace of the Holy Spirit we have. Because, how is it possible to think about and judge things we haven’t seen and don’t know? The saints say they’ve seen God. But there are people who say God doesn’t exist. It’s obvious that they talk like that because they don’t know Him; but that doesn’t at all mean that He doesn’t exist. The saints talk about things about things they’ve actually seen and know about. They don’t say, for example, that they saw a horse a kilometer long, or a ship that was 10 kilometers. I believe that, if there wasn’t a God, they wouldn’t ...
The mind (νους) is the finest attention, the human focus, the eye of the soul. If someone is focused on...
Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so....
In Cheesefare Sunday’s Gospel, the Church takes three pieces of gold from the Sermon on the Mount and gives them to us to make keys to open the door of Great Lent. a. Forgiveness of those who have wronged us The first key is our willingness to forgive those who have wronged us in any way. In essence, Christ is repeating here what He said in the Lord’s prayer (Matth. 6, 12): ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors’. As we see, the purpose of the commandment to forgive those who have wronged us is not the improvement of our social profile, nor even peaceful co-existence with other people. Before all else it’s a call to be like Christ. The ...
One of the more curious features of living in Greece is that, if you go to a football match on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, one of the messages relayed to the crowd at half-time is always: “The Triodion is open! Bring your family and friends to Such-and- Such Taverna”. There follows a long (long!) list of all the amazing meat dishes they will prepare for your delectation, mostly over a charcoal grill. I confess that there have been occasions, when, after an insipid first half, I have cut my losses and repaired to the said taverna and supported these stalwart culinarians in their noble efforts. This is not, of course, what we usually associate the Triodion with, ...
Grace will visit you gradually. You’ll enter into joy. You’ll begin to live in peace and then, by God’s grace, you’ll become stronger. You won’t get angry, you won’t lose your temper, you won’t take things the wrong way, you won’t condemn. You’ll accept everybody in love.
His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco has issued his message regarding Lent 2020. Read the full text below: ...
A seminar for college students learning foreign languages in Georgia, including Greek, was held in Tbilisi’s theological academy last week....
The courtyard of the historic church of the Holy Trinity in central Athens off Philellinon Ave., known as the «Russian...
The Archdiocese of Australia conveyed its best wishes on Saturday, Feb. 29, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of...
Despite a price tag that might exceed 81 million dollars and a turbulent background that involved accusations of financial mismanagement,...
Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain has issued his Encyclical for the beginning of the Holy & Great Lent...
Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X has released his Lent Pastoral Letter 2020. Read the full text...
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut and its Suburbs, Elias Audeh, on Thursday met with UAE Ambassador to Lebanon, Hamad Saeed...
