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On August 1-4, 2020, Archbishop Leonid of Vladikavkaz and Alania, vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations,...
Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem express compassion and solidarity with Lebanese people
Statement of the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem on Beirut August 6th, 2020 We, the Patriarchs and Heads...
On 4th August 2020, the commemoration day of the Holy Myrrh-Bearer Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles, the Metochion of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission...
Thursday, August 06, 2020 To the Faithful Orthodox Christians of the United States of America and all people of good...
Those who murmur away in the soul are the evil demons. Their mutterings are the impulses of vindictive thoughts, emotions or desires. But the soul avoids them by always turning to the Lord.
Watch the first part of Fr Jonah’s sermon on Holy Communion.
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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent condolences to the President of the Lebanese Republic, Mr. Michel...
The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church of Greece and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece sent a...
A 19th-century religious icon showing the Baptism of Christ and another 11 icons stolen in 2005 from the Church of...
In the wake of a tragic explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, the World Council of Churches (WCC) sent condolences and called...
By now, the world has seen videos of a mushroom cloud soaring over the Lebanese capital of Beirut, which explosions...
Hank Hanegraaff, one of the speakers at the 3rd Archon International Conference on Religious Freedom held in Washington, D.C., and...
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is pleased to announce the launch of its Spanish Ministry Initiative’s Facebook page (predominantly in...
His Beatitude, Patriarch John X contacted His Eminence Metropolitan Elias (Audi) to check on him after the devastating explosion that...
On Saturday, 8 August 2020, the day that our Church commemorates the memory of St Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of...
We should be aware of our limitations. Lots of people suffer from this. They see an ascetic making some very hard and strict effort and think: ‘I’ll do that as well’. But is that within your powers? Or is it an attack from the right by the devil? Talk to your spiritual guide as to whether you should be making this great effort. There’s a danger you’re being led astray.
The time from August 1 to 15 is a period in the Church’s year during which the Orthodox soul turns to Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God, with eyes full of contrition. For the two weeks before the feast of the Dormition, the bells ring at sunset and crowds of the faithful go to sing the Great Paraclitic Canon. Of course, we have similar contrition during the period of the Salutations to Our Most Holy Lady. But whereas in the Salutations the dominant tone of the hymns is celebration of the limitless qualities of the woman who ‘became the Mother of God’, in the Paraclitic Canon in August the tone is mournful, reflecting the pain of the deeply-suffering faithful, ...
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