The Women’s Wellness and Awareness Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco Philoptochos recently held a one-day Zoom...
Ipapanti tou Sotiros” is one of the largest cathedrals in Messinia and celebrates its Feast Day on February the...
On February 2, the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Christ to the Temple. The Church...
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is planning to restore the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady and build...
A Monument of Memory My Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As you will see from the pictures in this...
The Church is a spiritual place where we find communion with God and this is very important. This is why, if you want to be peaceful, if you want to be calm, if you want to find your inner harmony, you have to communicate properly with God. And how do you do that? By keeping the commandments. The commandments are the means by which we’re healed. As Saint Gregory Palamas says, if we keep the commandments, we receive the uncreated divine energy. Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
If we consider sin as transgression against the ‘law of God’ rather than an ailment we inherited as children of the first Adam, it’s natural that this will create feelings of guilt. Because, if sin becomes second nature over time, it acquires authority over our soul so that, as Saint Paul says, we do what we don’t want to do. But, as can be readily understood, this creates pressure, we lose our peace, we’re in turmoil and suffer the consequences in our daily life. Our holy Fathers and Mothers, who really understood human nature- since they knew the depth of their own- speak of the sin lurking within us as a sickness. People should never feel guilty about being sick, but ...
In a bid to meet the requests of numerous Russian-speaking faithful from around the world, the online platform Pemptousia will...
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States this week reaffirmed the sanctity of life, one based on...
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Monday received the recently appointed deputy minister for tertiary...
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A new project of St. Tikhon’s Monastery has been launched, aiming to provide Orthodox liturgical music for every choir. The...
In the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Moscow, the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on...
His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija and administrator of the Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci, served the Holy Liturgy in...
We often hear in the Divine LIturgy and other Holy Services of the Church prayers and supplications before God that are related to “mercy,” such as: “Have mercy on us,O God, according to your great mercy…”; “ For you, O God, are merciful and love mankind … “; “By the mercy and compassion and love for man of Your Only-begotten Son…” These and many other similar expressions are heard repeatedly in our common worship, appealing to the merciful God. This truth of God’s mercy is revealed in the Bible, where it is frequently heard that “God is rich in mercy” (Ephesians 2:4); the Lord is compassionate and merciful (Psalm 102:8). And as the Apostle Peter writes, “The God and Father of ...
May 29, 1453. It is Tuesday. The day when the bright light of the Greek Christian world was covered with the dark veil of obscurantism. The city has fallen. The emperor has turned to stone. Hagia Sophia has been turned into a mosque. The thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire has collapsed. The evil that has befallen the Greeks is indescribable. They have lost almost everything. Fortunately, they did not lose their faith in the true God. For four hundred (400) years they suffered like no other people. Turkey, hand in hand with Islam, created the most satanic of plots to exterminate Hellenism. They created the janissary. They grabbed the Greek Christian children from the arms of their mothers, and proceeded to Islamize them and ...
The Hellenic Society Prometheas hosted online celebration of Greek Letters Day, under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece. The...
Moscow, February 1, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has condemned the use of children and teenagers as a means...
The Pancretan Association of Melbourne held their annual blessing and Vasilopita cutting for 2021 on Saturday, January 30 and it...
What was Christ’s greatest miracle? Most people would say the raising of Lazarus. But Saint Isaac the Syrian disagrees, saying: ‘Someone who is aware of his or her sins and genuinely repents is on a higher level than a person who raises the dead. Raising a sinner from the necrosis of sin is greater than raising the body of a corpse. Certainly, all the occasions when Christ and the saints raised people in the body are astonishing miracles and are testimony to his victory over death and to the ‘general resurrection’ of our bodies which will be granted to us at his Second Coming. But if we are to share in the eternal glory of his reign, this requires the incomparably ...
