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Turkey is once again on a U.S. State Department’s “Special Watch List” in the 2020 Annual Report by the United...

Hundreds of Greek Australian parishioners flocked to church on Sunday after weeks of staying away, as a ban on mass...

Do you want to live properly? Make sure you’re humble, because unless you are, you can’t live properly. We distance ourselves from God by abandoning humility. Love humility and you’ll never fall into the devil’s traps.

In accordance with the ancient tradition of the Church, as established by Saint Pachomius in Egypt, the monastic way of life in monasteries is communal. Communal worship, communal table, labor/obedience in common and a common Father. Apart from the Niptic life, the communal way of life of monastics also preserves the common eschatological experience of the early Church in Jerusalem where ‘all… were together in one place and had everything in common’ (Acts, 2 44). Any deviation which undermines the authentic common life of monasteries is held to be a sign of degeneration in their spiritual life. The idiorrhythmic way of running monasteries on Athos arose in times of great difficulties and decline, as a dispensation to allow the monasteries to ...

In Jordan there was a very simple priest who performed miracles. He’d read prayers over people and animals that were sick in some way and they’d recover. Muslims went to him as well, if they had a health problem, and he’d cure them. Before he served the Liturgy, he’d drink a herbal tea and nibble on a little toasted bread. Then he wouldn’t eat anything for the rest of the day. The Patriarch heard that he ate before the Divine Liturgy and called him in to the Patriarchate. He went, though he didn’t know why he’d been called. While he was waiting for the Patriarch to call him, he sat with some others in a room. It was very hot and they had the blinds ...

The International Association of Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care is participating, along with its members, associates, researchers, lecturers and...

Today’s Gospel extract refers to the dialogue Jesus Christ had with a Samaritan woman, who was in fact considered by...

Beirut’s Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Archbishop, Elias Aoude, presided over Sunday Mass service at St. George’s Cathedral in Central Beirut this...

The public must avoid crowding in churches which could result in spreading the coronavirus, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Sunday. In...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman May 17, 2020 Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox...

Over the past week, Greek Orthodox churches across Australia have been organising efficient procedures to allow worshipers to attend Sunday...

Turkey is once again on a U.S. State Department’s “Special Watch List” in the 2020 Annual Report by the United...

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the day of Mid-Pentecost, in response to pleas by many Orthodox Christians and with the...

Four Iranian Christian converts who were arrested in February have been sent to Lakan Prison after they were unable to...

Georgian priests marched in Tbilisi today, marking ‘Family Purity Day’ backed by the Georgian Orthodox Church, first celebrated in 2014....

Georgia stands firmly on the Orthodox faith, this is our fate, this is our reward, God’s reward to Georgia, –...

The time will come when people will lose their minds. And if they see somebody who hasn’t lost their mind, they’ll say ‘You’re crazy’. Because that person will be different from them.

In the Gospel reading for tomorrow (4, 5-42), Saint John the Evangelist transports us to a well in Samaria, one hot noontide. Christ had sent His disciples to the nearby town of Sychar to fetch supplies and a local woman came to  the well to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water, and then began one of the most revealing dialogues in Scripture. In this dialogue, Christ reveals the truly divine provenance of His word. It is a discourse that can, indeed, be adapted to human measures of understanding,  but it also clearly transcends the criteria with which people judge things. It is a discourse which reinvigorates human life because it offers precisely a new vision of the ...