More instances of vandalism of churches and chapels around Greece over the recent period have caused grief and revulsion....
Through repentance we experience a second baptism and are cleansed of the sins we’ve committed since the first one. When we repent, confess our transgressions, decide not to repeat them, to hate them, we immediately receive remission of our iniquities and, from one moment to the next, go from being sinners to righteous, as did the robber, who gained Paradise because he repented.
In every beginner, there is a twofold work, committed in the heart in a double but unmixed way: one work...
NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated, the evening of Wednesday Jan. 9, 2020, the beginning of...
In English Četrdeseto pismo Bog uvek pomaže. On uvek dolazi na vreme, ali je potrebno strpljenje. Dođite moja dobra i...
One evening, Papa-Fotis visited one of the houses in town where he sometimes stayed. Before he went to sleep, he told the man of the house: ‘First thing in the morning, you and me have got work to do’. They got up, left Mytilini and went to his little monastery. He quickly gathered the holy vessels and his priestly vestments and went to the picturesque chapel of Our Lady Galatousa, up near the old fortifications of the town. He served the Liturgy. Then he took the Holy Chalice and the spoon and, just as he was, in his vestments, went off to one of the brothels that were in that area at the time. There he gave communion to a prostitute, Evlambia, who was ...
Orthodox Christian theology has always distinguished between two kinds of knowledge: the secular and the divine. Secular knowledge functions on the level of created matter and is unable to approach the uncreated, that is the divine, which reveals God’s purpose for the world. Secular science is empirical in nature. It objectivizes the world and always and everywhere seeks objectivity. While it depends on the individual and makes its leaps through personal inspiration, it avoids subjectivity. As knowledge about changeable and relative things, scientific knowledge is changeable and relative. And as an attempt to understand the finite world, with its infinitude of dimensions and phenomena, it is always both finite and never-ending. Divine knowledge is of a personal nature. It doesn’t function on ...
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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday received the current caretaker Prime Minister of the...
The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, offers his thoughts on peace, the continued...
The annual Great Blessing of the Waters service again took place in Sydney, Australia this month, with the Archbishop...
The election of a new president in Croatia has raised hopes that better days will dawn for the minority...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Sunday met at the Patriarchal residence in Bucharest with members of...
The Orthodox Academy of Crete will be awarded a special distinction by the Athens-based Athanassios Botsis Journalism Promotion Foundation. The...
The Honorable Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear...
A top cadre of the main opposition party in Greece, leftist SYRIZA, last week expressed sharp opposition over the...
The 37th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Lecture, slated to be held on the campus of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary...
Five of the oldest Bulgarian monasteries, that have been declared monuments of culture – Bachkovski, Troyanski, Kremikovski, Kilifarevski and Plakovski,...
A draft bill was tabled in Greece Parliament over the weekend, as widely expected, removing the religious affiliation and citizenship...
When God doesn’t give us something we keep asking for, He has His reasons. God also has His ‘secrets’. Let’s not insist on getting what we want, but let’s leave it to God’s will.
