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Whatever has to do with the spiritual life, whatever we experience within the Church, can be dealt with in two ways: one is not to engage your heart with any of it at all. Everything is formal, theoretical and logical. The heart’s never touched, the heart’ s never concerned with all that’s happening in your spiritual life. In other words, people deliberately distance their heart from what’s going on and in this way are able to feel that, essentially, they’re even in control of things. This is a great trap, because whenever we discover that our heart’s on the outside of things, we realize that we, too, are on the outside, that we’re not taking part in the life of ...

He who drives away the carnal thought by prayer is like someone fighting with a lion; he who subdues him by his...

Dear speakers of the DMOPC20 Conference We are writing to inform you that due to rapidly escalating health concerns relating...

‘Lord, be lenient towards us in this holy season. May tears flow to You from the heart, to wash away our spiritual stains and to cultivate Your holy commandments. Fasting worthily in this way, may we please You and may You grant all of us to see Your all-hallowed Passion. Through the prayers of Your Apostles who save the world. Glory to You’. (Kathisma, Matins).

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  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania this week joined other Orthodox Churches around the world in announcing preventative measures...

  Peaceful street demonstrations and prayer rallies continued in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro by tens of thousands of...

  Archbishop Ieronymos on Friday again referred to the coronavirus crisis and the strict measures taken to prevent a mass...

  Greece’s new president of the republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, was sworn-in on Friday in Parliament. The Archbishop of Athens and...

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Hypomoni the Righteous. Hypomoni means patience in Greek. St. Hypomoni, the daughter...

  Due to recent developments on the Covid-19 (corona-virus) and the increasing cases in Australia as well as the corresponding...

As the God-bearing Fathers say, when the intellect forgets the purpose of piety, then even an action which is demonstrably virtuous becomes useless. And those that are performed without discernment not only are of no benefit but are actually harmful. The opposite is true of those which are thought to be bad, but which are performed with a pious intent. Like the man who went into a brothel and dragged a harlot out. From this it’s clear that those people are not generous who’ve occasionally given charity, nor are they chaste who restrained themselves a little, but rather those who worked away their whole life at virtue, with sound discernment. Because discernment is the greatest of all the virtue, since ...

His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral visited Zlatica Monastery in Podgorica on 11 March 2020. The Metropolitan...

As the international community struggles to contain the Covid19 coronavirus pandemic, two iconic events for the Greek community in Australia...

On the 12th day of this month our Blessed and God-bearing Father Symeon the New Theologian departed in peace (Synaxari, March). Discourse XI: On Fasting That we should not embrace and zealously observe the benefit of the fast only in the first week of Lent, but that the zealous should continue in the same zeal for all the weeks of Lent. Brethren and Fathers, What we are about to say ought to have been addressed to your goodness last Sunday. I was aware, however, that all Christian people, be they monastics or laity, fervently and willingly welcome the blessing of the fast in the holy first week of Lent and that each of us willingly puts the yoke on their own neck. Even among ...

SYDNEY – The Sunday of Orthodoxy and the restoration of the icons to the churches was celebrated solemnly at the...

As the coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly and a state of emergency has been declared for the Commonwealth of...

Only the foolish think that suffering is evil. A sensible man knows that suffering is not evil but only the...

Official Communique from the First Day of the Proceedings of the Holy and Sacred Synod (9 March 2020) On Monday, 9 March 2020, the Holy and Sacred Synod convened under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness to carry out the tasks of its three-day sitting. After the reading of the minutes of the previous sessions, it began its consideration of the items on the agenda. In particular, the Holy and Sacred Synod, on the recommendation of the Canonical Committee, entered into the Catalogue of Saints of the Orthodox Church the following blessed Athonite elders, who were variously gifted by God and widely recognized for the sanctity of their life and works. a) Daniil Katounakiotis, whose provenance was Smyrna, a worthy and true successor to Blessed Nikodimos the ...