His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following greeting to His Beatitude Patriarch John X...
A service of thanksgiving prayer, accompanied by the pealing of church bells, will be held on February 28 2020 at...
As of today, we enter the period of the Triodio, a time of more intense prayer, during which the Church, through its Scriptural readings and devout hymns strengthens us for our spiritual struggles and for the acquisition of the virtues of humility, obedience, love and true faith. All of these virtues adorned Saint Haralambis, whose memory we celebrate today. Saint Haralambis (or Haralambos) was born in Magnesia, Asia Minor (near Ephesus) in 89 A.D., while the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John was still living there. At that blessed time of the Apostolic Fathers, the successors of the Holy Apostles, Saint Haralambos lived, for 113 years, until 202. He was found worthy of the rank of the priesthood. With the sanctity of ...
The Russian Orthodox Church allows that its synodal departments could be headed by women, even secular ones. Recently, for the...
The Holy Cross Church of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Vinnitsa had great cause for celebration recently, as relics...
I’m the LIGHT and you don’t see Me. I’m the WAY but you don’t follow Me. I’m the TRUTH and you don’t believe Me. I’m LIFE and you don’t seek Me. I’m the TEACHER and you don’t listen to Me. I’m the LORD and you don’t submit to Me. I’m your GOD and you don’t pray to Me. I’m your best FRIEND and you don’t love Me. If you’re forlorn, don’t blame me.
On 9th February 2020, the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee, the Orthodox Church enters the period of Triodion and is...
two characteristic types of people are presented in the Gospel reading, both of them praying in the temple. They were at opposite poles of society as it was then. One was pious and righteous in the eyes of others, a scholar of the Law, a member of the party of the Pharisees who were the leading religious grouping. The other was a representative of the class of sinners, a member of a profession which was a by-word for extortion, brutality and the expropriation of other people’s property. In the mind of the whole of society at that time, a tax-collector was the lowest of sinners. So what do these two people say in their prayer? Let’s look first at the ...
Novak wears a cross from the Hilandar Monastery as his lucky charm, while the blessing he received from late Serbian...
Greek language courses have recommenced in the ancient city of Damascus, an initiative by the Patriarchate of Antioch and All...
On February 6, members of the staff of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary visited Tbilisi Public School 150 and Tbilisi...
On February 7, representatives of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary visited School no.21 and School no.22 of the Town of...
The unveiling of the official logo that will accompany events next year commemorating the 200-year anniversary of the beginning of...
The School of Byzantine Music held its annual new year’s and cake-cutting ceremony last week at the Apostle Barnabas parish...
Holy Trinity Church near Bellingshausen Station on King George Island, Antarctica is the southernmost Orthodox church in the world. However,...
Who would visit a Russian Orthodox church on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, in a land of polar bears...
The Orthodox Deacon is the third and lowest degree of the major orders of clergy in the Orthodox Church, following...
If you call God your Father, then you’ll trust Him as your only, actual Father, Who is merciful and all-wise, unalterable in His love and perfection.
On February 7, 2020, the 102nd anniversary of the murder of Hieromarty Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia, divine...
The 15th-century Holy Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin is one of the most historic and famous churches of Russia....
