In English

‘And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb.’ Just before His Passion, the Lord promised the inalienable joy of the Resurrection to His disciples and all those who loved Him, ‘I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.’ As He went forth to His incomprehensible Passion, setting His face to derision and extreme humiliation, He promised that the joy of the Resurrection would become imperishable in the souls of all who belong to Him. This joy of the Resurrection enflamed the hearts of the Apostles during the forty days before the Ascension, when the Lord ‘was seen of them’, and will be ...

April 29, 2020 It’s been a month since I was locked up at home, away from my job and deprived of restaurants, grocery stores, get-togethers, concerts, celebrations, meetings with friends. Confinement is hard for all of us humans, since even the most introverted among us remain social beings. I try to remind myself of things that I’m still grateful for. Thank God, we all remain in good health, which is not negligible at all under the circumstances. I have my family with me. Whatever we need in terms of food and medicine is delivered to our door, and even though it does not always correspond exactly to our first choices, at least it is plentiful. In addition, I have the internet for ...

A Pious Reflection of Joy-making Sorrow at the Repose of Elder Ephraim of Arizona At moments like these, we feel that we should both be crying and joyous! With tears of contrition! That the only thing proper to these spiritual individuals is contrition and being moved. And, most likely this is the only way for us to feel. But this is also the way to meet them. That, knowing the bodily and spiritual struggles–many times surpassing nature–struggles, but also “intoxication” and eros to come to know Christ, one becomes inept and inebriated from such a great struggle and violence for the One Beloved . And this violence and struggle and frenzied love cannot and should not be properly described, nor neglected due to the wondrous ...

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  The online magazine Pemptousia and the Orthodoxia news agency are continuing to live-stream all daily church services this week,...

  The coronavirus pandemic, which is particularly acute in the Trabzon region in the southeast Black Sea coast region, as...

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

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Sunday cited the role of women, as modern-day Myrrh-Bearers, stressing...

  The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, again cited the tribulation faced by humanity, in the...

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at a prayer service on Sunday in supplication...

  Churches and chapels in Greece on Monday opened for personal worship, weeks after strict coronavirus-related restrictions were first imposed....

  Today is the third Monday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. Our Church today venerates the memory of...

When the heart becomes a furnace of love for God, then it can burn off vanity when it comes close to it and then there’s inner peace when you pass through the furnaces of the trials of life.

      Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! Christ is Risen!

Women and those unable to travel have the possibility to visit online the Holy Mount Athos. A website has made...

  When he (Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos) was encouraging us once to study Patristic writings, he mentioned that there was benefit...

“This year, the Resurrection tells us many things. If it is true what we believe, and if we are living that which we chant, that “we celebrate the death of death, the deposition of Hades, and the beginning of another, eternal life” (Canon of Pascha), then we would fear for nothing. And every single threat increases the power of the presence of the risen Lord. “That which occurred this year with the Coronavirus is a temptation, but all temptations are transformed into blessings. We chant “let us say, O brethren, even to those who hate us.” (Doxastikon of Pascha) And those who hate us are waiting for our love, and those who do not believe are waiting for the power of ...

When he (Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos) was encouraging us once to study Patristic writings, he mentioned that there was benefit not only in their teaching and exhortations, but also from their prayers. As well as studying their works, we should call upon them. In his hermitage at New Skete, on the Holy Mountain, while he was studying the works of Saint Symeon the New Theologian and, at the same time, praying to him the presence of the saint became so tangible that he felt diffident and reticent. ‘I drew back’, he said, ‘in case I touched him’. He studied the Holy Fathers carefully, systematically and in depth and he always read the original not a modern translation. Writings well beyond the ability of many ...

The Religious and Foundation Employees’ Union (Diyanet Bir-Sen) called for the first Friday prayer after the coronavirus pandemic to be...

Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Christ is Risen! Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! On the Second Sunday after Pascha, we remember...