We believe that the sole ray of hope and optimism concerning the doubtful quality of life of young people today can come only from heaven, from God. Because the Triune God, Who is revealed and lives in the Orthodox Church, is a personal God. God establishes personal relations with each believer, in such a way, that every movement, act and activity –even thought– is directly linked to Him. » Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi
Women who leave Islam in sharia-ruled country are hard-pressed to find their way. Sa’aada Hussein’s husband didn’t seem to be...
St. Anne’s Skete (or, less commonly, The Major Skete of St. Anne’s) is one of four sketes attached to the...
Whatever we prefer to God, we make it into a god for ourselves. Given that, don’t wage your Christian struggle...
Watch Bogdan Zamfirescu’s speech at the 2nd International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care DMOPC18 which took place from 18th-21st June 2018 at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, organized under the High Auspices of His All Holliness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
The feast of the Holy Protection of the All Holy Theotokos is known throughout the Orthodox world. It is celebrated on October 1st (October 14th on the Old Calendar), and in the Church of Greece on October 28th, to commemorate the protection of Greece during World War II. The two words alone, “Holy Protection” bring to our mind the maternal love and shelter that our All Holy Mother gives us in times of danger, as well as the unfailing help that she provides in the difficult moments of our lives. But how did this feast day come to be established on the 1st of October? The historical event behind it is particularly interesting. At the south side of the St. Mary ...
‘And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her’ Teachers of little children train them in accordance with a system, whereby they attempt to teach them the subject of the lesson by beginning with the easiest aspect and then proceeding to the more difficult ones. This is also what the Lord did with His disciples: first He cured ordinary ailments, then He expelled demons from people’s souls, then he opened the eyes of the blind, then He restored to health those we were close to death and, finally, He raised the dead, as in the case of Jairus’ daughter and the son of the widow of Nain, as described in today’s Gospel reading. According to Theofanis Keramevs, the Lord ...
In his interview given to the leading Belgrade newspaper “Politika” of the 29th September 2019 His Holiness expressed his opinion on the Church...
The Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, Romania has entered a new era of its existence. After 30 years of extensive consolidation...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America speaks about the importance of church music in our worship and the vital role...
A reading of victims’ names at the time bullets flew two years ago marked the end on October 1 of...
Vladimir Legoyda recalled that an area of pastoral responsibility of the Russian Orthodox Church includes 16 independent states. The Chairman of...
Mother Agnia (Minyailo), abbess of the Holy Protection-Krasnogorsk Monastery in the Cherkassy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reposed in...
Christ is close to us, even if we don’t see Him. Sometimes He even gives us a bit of a slap out of His great love. » Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
Archbishop Elpidophoros attended on Oct. 4, 2019, the installation of Dr. Thomas C. Katsouleas as the 16th President of the...
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has designated October 6, 2019 as Orthodox Christian...
In his first epistle to the Corinthians, Saint Paul mentions that ‘the Jews seek a sign’ (1 Cor. 1, 22), that is they wanted a supernatural sign, such as resurrection of the dead, or healing of the demonically possessed, which would make them believe in the preaching concerning the Cross. So they sought this supernatural sign, ignoring and ignorant of all the signs and wonders that God had shown them in the past, every time they found themselves in danger. Of course, the sign they were looking for could only have been the Cross, which, on the one hand is foreshadowed throughout the whole of the Old Testament and, on the other, was ever-present, preserving the people of God from ...
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An edition entitled «Bible for Young People» will be printed in Vienna this year, following an initiative by the Romanian...
Sessions of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East began on Thursday and will continue...
