A custom with ancient roots revives every year in Eleusis, at the sacred site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, where from...
When we went to the island of Samos, we visited the monastery called Harixenou. The abbot was Abba Isidoros, a virtuous man with great love for others and adorned with simplicity and immeasurable obedience. He later became bishop of the town of Sabia and it was he who told us this story. About eight miles from the city, there was a village with a church. The priest there was a wonderful man, who’d been forced into marriage by his parents, against his will. Not only did he avoid falling into the trap of sensual pleasure, even though he was young and was legally married, but he also had his wife living in purity and restraint. Both of them learned the ...
On the 21st of November, the Church celebrates a special Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her going to the Temple of Jerusalem. As we know from Holy Tradition, her parents Sts. Joachim and Anna were elderly and beyond child bearing years. After many prayers, God blessed them with a daughter, after which they dedicated her to God. They named her Mary, and when she was three years old they brought her to the Temple of Jerusalem, the original having been built by King Solomon. The young Mary was received into the temple community by the Priest Zacharias (the father of St. John the Baptist, and a relative). It is in this sacred atmosphere of the Temple that the pure ...
Bad talk’s a great evil. It’s a terrible thing for others to hurl themselves at you and besmirch you. It happens. Out of nowhere. Suddenly. Sometimes it’s a fair judgment by God on us; sometimes it isn’t. In the first instance, when we ourselves are to blame because we’d been guilty of wicked actions and activities, attributing to others reproaches similar to those aimed at us, it’s our duty not to dwell on how much we’ve suffered but to make sure we put things to right, including ourselves. Then the torrent of abuse against use will stop. In the event that they speak badly about us and we can’t remember ever having done so to the detriment of others, it’s natural for us ...
Three masked suspected entered the residence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Saturday evening...
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A procession, blessing ceremony and foundation laying was held in the Black Sea port city of Constanta for the...
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Tuesday received a delegation of Abbots and Abbesses...
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week attended celebrations for the 55th anniversary of the establishment of...
The former Archbishop of Thyateira & Great Britain Gregorios reposed in the Lord on Wednesday, at the age of...
Debate continued in Greece’s Parliament this week over articles eligible for constitutional revision, more than a week after the...
The enthronement ceremony of the new Abbot of the Synodal-Stavropegial Monastery of Panagia Chrysopigi, Archimandrite Ephraim Panousis, was held on...
When we look at the icon of the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple, we’re conscious of the silence of the Holy Scriptures and listen instead to the augmentation of the Gospels by the sacred Tradition of the Church. This presents us with the preparation of the earthly vessel of the Son and Word, the precious bridal-chamber, the heavenly tabernacle, as she’s described in the kontakio of the feast. Saint John the Damascan declares that she ‘was planted’ in the house of God, that her spirit blossomed like a ‘laden olive-tree’, that she became ‘the refuge of all the virtues’, that she preserved her body and soul until she was able to receive Christ. As the dismissal hymn ...
There are many important reasons why we should fast and confess with a contrite heart. We shall all have a great reward for this conscientious struggle of ours.
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece presented the new Protosyncellus, Archimandrite Varnavas Theocharis, to his associates and the officers...
oday, Tuesday, November 19, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew held a meeting with the Chairman of the Board of Nursultan Nazarbayev Center...
Former Archbishop of Thyateira Gregorios passed away at the age of 92. The elder bishop has been suffering from serious...
Patriarch Daniel on Sunday offered his reflections on wealth and poverty as means through which we can proceed on the...
The first Romanian Orthodox monastery in Portugal was inaugurated last Sunday, Nov. 17, by four Romanian hierarchs in Aldeia de...
The nuns from Valea Bistriței Monastery are building a house for a needy family with seven children, ages 7 to...
