On 13th December 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met...
‘I came that they might have life and have it abundantly’. Saint Gregory Palamas interprets ‘abundant life’ as the life of sanctity, our adoption by God through Grace. Those who keep God’s commandments live the virtuous life in accordance with His commandments. They receive Divine Grace from Him and this becomes their inalienable possession. They acquire the divine predicates: love, wisdom, the uncreated light, ontological autonomy, and immortality. All of this is nothing other than a life of sanctity. » Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi
If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge,...
UNESCO has inscribed Byzantine chant in Cyprus and Greece on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Sunday performed the re-consecration of a 200-year old church dedicated to saint Demetrios the...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania received Bucharest’s Honorary Citizenship for his contribution to the spirituality and education of...
His Grace Silvester celebrated Holy liturgy at that Church of St. Spyridon in Nsinze which was commemorating there patron saint...
Once when I was there where I was, some foreign missionary came and said to me, “You may be a...
2. The theory of force. It would seem that the theory of force is more or less confined to Greece. Its supporters invoke the persecutions of the early Byzantine emperors against the pagan priests and schools. In other words, they cite events which took place after the fourth century, when the victory of Christianity was already assured. They overlook the fact that the conversion of the large urban centers had already taken place before there were ever any ‘Christian’ emperors to turn against ancient paganism. In the pre-Byzantine period exactly the opposite happened: Greeks became Christians despite the persecutions of the Roman state. What was the ethnicity of the pre-Byzantine martyrs. We don’t have any such specialist study on martyrology at our disposal, ...
Watch Fr Jonah’s from Taiwan sermon on the Apostolic reading for the 14th Sunday of Luke.
The synodical department of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church Relations with Society and Mass Media, in cooperation with...
The northern Bulgaria city of Pleven this week celebrated the 142nd anniversary of its liberation from Ottoman rule, and...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday received the Civil Governor of Mt. Athos,...
Thousands of mourners from around the world on Wednesday paid their respects and bid farewell to the Elder Ephraim...
On Sunday, December 8, 2019 His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Sts. Constantine and Helen Parish...
BALTIMORE, MD – With a refresh of its popular gift catalog, International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is offering gift-givers ways...
On 11th December 2019, in the Hall of Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow,...
The Montenegrin government submitted its controversial bill on religious freedom on Thursday, December 5 for consideration by the nation’s Parliament...
A free medical center for the homeless in Irkutsk was opened and consecrated recently in a joint project between the...
There’s no need for any special concentration in order to say the Jesus Prayer. It doesn’t require any effort if you have love of God. Wherever you are, on a stool, a chair, in a car, anywhere, on the road, at school, in the office, at work, you can say the prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me’. Gently, without pressure, without pushing. » Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
