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Today is the 4th Wednesday after Pascha – Holy and Great Easter Sunday, and is known as the Mid-Pentecost. The...

On 10th May, 2020, the 4th Sunday after Holy Pascha (of the Healing of the Paralytic at Bethesda), the parishioners...

At the initiative of its Ruling Bishop, His Grace Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe, the Diocese is initiating...

  On May 12, 2020, the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Foča celebrated its patron Saint , St. Basi of Ostrog....

Tonight, on the feast-day of St. Basil of Ostrog, on May 12, 2020, after a long discussion, the Montenegrin police...

Contentiousness leads to anger; anger leads to blindness; blindness leads us into committing every kind of wickedness.

  The Hellenic Initiative Australia has committed $10,000 to Emfasis Foundation to support extra relief being implemented assisting the homeless...

Ioannis Foundoulis Most of the faithful don’t know about this feast. Apart from priests and a few other Christians who...

Moscow, May 12, Interfax – Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion spoke out against a...

In Old Valaam, fish farming was one of the main and most profitable branches of the monastery economy. Fish cages...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has proclaimed May 17 as “AHEPA Sunday” in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America....

Most of the faithful don’t know about this feast. Apart from priests and a few other Christians who are more closely involved with the Church, most don’t even know of its existence. Few go to church on the day and most of them don’t even suspect that the Wednesday after the Sunday of the Paralytic is celebrated by the Church as a great feast of the Lord, the Feast of Mid-Pentecost.  And yet this feast was once a major feast of the Great Church of Constantinople and crowds of people attended it.   Giotto, Christ among the Teachers You only have to open On the Administration of the Empire, by Konstantinos Porfyroyennitos to see the official rite for the celebration of the feast, ...

‘I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely’. During Great Lent, to a certain degree, we taste of Christ’s death. In the middle of this period, the Church institutes the Veneration of the Precious Cross, to quicken inspiration and strengthen us in our struggle to be vouchsafed to enter into the life-giving presence of the Risen Lord. We are reminded that it was through the Cross that joy and the Resurrection came into the world. In the middle of the period of the Pentecostarian, we celebrate Midpentecost, which ignites our thirst for the Light of the Comforter, and confirms our determination, so we persevere in prayer with ever-increasing yearning, ‘until we are ...

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Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of...

  The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, met and made joint statements this week with the...

  The Metropolitan of Nairobi and Exarch of Kenya, His Eminence Makarios, spoke with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist...

And Peter said to him, ‘Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your pallet.’ And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Why do people seek miracles in their lives in order to believe? Is it only the effect of our reason that makes us doubt what we all fundamentally know to be true, that is, the presence of God? Is it the pressure caused by our surroundings, especially people we trust and who influence us; or a feeling that we have to live the experience of proof ourselves and that it’s not enough to know the experience of others who have lived the miracle of faith ...

GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF NEW JERSEY Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of...