‘The pure and undefiled fast has now come upon us and brings us to the celebration of the martyr’s miracles. Through the fast our souls are cleansed from filth and defilement and through the martyr’s miracles and feats we are emboldened to fight bravely against the passions. Illumined, therefore, by the grace of holy abstinence and by the wondrous works of the martyr Theodore, we are fortified by our faith in Christ and beseech Him to award salvation to our souls.’ (Matins Aposticha)
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Thousands of people again held peaceful protests in cities around Montenegro to show their opposition to a controversial law that...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Most Reverend Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of...
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Sunday referred to what he called a «powerful distortion»...
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, referred to the unprecedented situation on...
The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Monday, with sessions to continue until Wednesday, amid...
Members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Monday officially announced the canonization of three Athonite...
Members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Monday officially announced the canonization of Elder Iosif...
This was also the last Divine Liturgy of His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Heliopolis before his retirement back to Greece...
The first Sunday of Great Lent, called the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, was celebrated at the Nativity of...
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus, together with many hierarchs celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy at...
On February 28, at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary a public lecture, titled “Power and Those Born by Revolution” was...
Several churches in Bethlehem including the Church of the Nativity have been temporarily closed for 14 days according to an...
Some ‘progressive’ people see the Church as their enemy. But is there any person who has greater love and wants our happiness more than the Church does, more than God Himself does? The Church suffers with the soul and body of every Christian and takes care of everything proper to our nature and our good.
Pall Mall Gazette. 24 July 1885. p. 6. Great interest has, it is said, been caused at Folkestone and the neighborhood by the discovery in the parish church of what are believed to be the remains of St. Eanswith, patron saint of the church and the daughter of Eadbald, one of the Saxon Kings of Kent. Some workmen, in removing the plaster from a niche in the north wall, noticed that the masonry showed signs of having been disturbed at some period, and a further search was made. Taking away a layer of rubble and broken tiles a cavity was discovered and in this a battered and corroded leaden casket, oval shaped, about eighteen inches long and twelve inches broad, ...
Today’s Gospel certainly has nothing to say to those who embrace the modern ‘gospels’ of self-salvation, which derive from the demonic ‘gospel of the serpent’: ‘You can become gods without God’. The words of the reading will be heard with even greater indifference by those who espouse the lyrics of a modern Greek song: ‘Let me make a mistake; I don’t feel like being saved’. Self-centered, smug people strive to feel secure about themselves in artificial ways. In the end, they wind up telling lies not only to other people but also to themselves, in an effort to persuade all and sundry that they have no need of any savior. Do you want to be saved? Philip not only wanted to be ...
‘Lord, you have appointed repentance for me, the sinner, wishing in your boundless mercy to save me, unworthy though I am. I fall before you and pray: Humble my soul through fasting, for I have fled to you who alone are rich in mercy.’
The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has...
Guard your mouth, practice the Jesus prayer, show restraint and the Lord will envelop you with the priceless gift of His love.
