Τhe Bishop of Gulu and Eastern Uganda, His Grace Silvestros, over the weekend called on young people to struggle for...
The Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Mother of...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, told congregants during a sermon at Bucharest’s St. Gregory chapel that contemporary...
The Metropolitan of Veria and Naousa, His Eminence Panteleimon, over the weekend was greeted with the season’s first Christmas carols...
Orthodox faithful in central Albania on Sunday venerated the memory of Hieromartyr Eleutherios, during a celebratory Divine Liturgy at the...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, will reportedly visit the Ukraine in the coming period, according...
The specter of continued low birth rates in Greece, well-chronicled since at least 1981, were again highlighted in a recent...
Now we proceed with the same faith, which is no longer abstract, however, because the promises have come, the fullness of time has arrived, the incarnation of the Word of God has occurred and the ‘angel of great counsel’ has appeared (Is. 9, 6). Our faith is focused, because the Only-Begotten Son of God has come. We’ve seen Him, we’ve touched Him, we’ve heard Him and we already possess Him. Now, with us, faith is something more. It’s no longer the simple faith of the Forefathers, who expected that, in accordance with His promise, God would come at some time and would save their descendants and the whole of humankind in general. We’ve gone beyond the limits of this introductory ...
The first mass was held at Saint George Church for the Greek Orthodox in Arbin, Damascus countryside, after the liberation...
On the 12th of December, 2019, priests from the Pittsburgh deanery gathered together to celebrate the feast of St. Mardarije...
Confession is the voluntary and sincere disclosure of the sins that have been committed – without shame or hesitation, but with self-censure and contrition – before the person appointed by the Church to forgive sins. For it to be real and effective, it must be voluntary and sincere, because hasty and insincere confession is pointless, since it’s not a genuine dictate of the heart, an expression of remorse and a manifestation of the desire to be cured. Confession has to take place without shame and hesitation, but rather with courage and self-condemnation, because courage is an expression of our rejection of sin, whereas shame demonstrates a lack of courage. » Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
Like most things, it’s not the outward actions and situation that matter most, it’s our inner state. So just as...
The Theory of Decline/Anxiety If force is excluded , there remains the notion of decline/anxiety. This theory is that, in the first three centuries A.D., the Greco-Roman world fell into a terrible decline. No longer believing in itself and its values, it was ripe for salvation by any lifeline that came its way. Christianity appeared at just such a moment, as a deus ex machina. So it couldn’t be avoided. Demonstrably. The dominant Modernist approach to the Christian phenomenon is based on this very simple idea. It can be followed, step by step, in Professor E. R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine), The Wiles Lectures 1963, reprinted CUP ...
Beirut Greek Orthodox Archbishop, Metropolitan Elias Audi, met Thursday with MP Jean Obeid, with whom he discussed the current situation...
Officials, liquidators of the Chernobyl catastrophe and relatives of the deceased heroes took part in the ceremony of commemorating the...
What’s the Christmas season without a few breathless complaints issued by the Freedom From Religion Foundation? A public elementary school...
On the 12th of December, Thursday, the representatives of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary: Archpriest Iakob Chichilidze (the Department of...
Warning the believers at Stavanger, Norway, about the addiction to new technologies, His Grace Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe said...
Israel’s Tourism Ministry is ready to welcome en estimated 165,000 faithful who are expected to arrive in Israel for the...
His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden has released his Encyclical for the Nativity of Christ. Read the full text below:...
