On 9th February 2020, the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee, the Orthodox Church enters the period of Triodion and is...
two characteristic types of people are presented in the Gospel reading, both of them praying in the temple. They were at opposite poles of society as it was then. One was pious and righteous in the eyes of others, a scholar of the Law, a member of the party of the Pharisees who were the leading religious grouping. The other was a representative of the class of sinners, a member of a profession which was a by-word for extortion, brutality and the expropriation of other people’s property. In the mind of the whole of society at that time, a tax-collector was the lowest of sinners. So what do these two people say in their prayer? Let’s look first at the ...
Novak wears a cross from the Hilandar Monastery as his lucky charm, while the blessing he received from late Serbian...
Greek language courses have recommenced in the ancient city of Damascus, an initiative by the Patriarchate of Antioch and All...
On February 6, members of the staff of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary visited Tbilisi Public School 150 and Tbilisi...
On February 7, representatives of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary visited School no.21 and School no.22 of the Town of...
The unveiling of the official logo that will accompany events next year commemorating the 200-year anniversary of the beginning of...
The School of Byzantine Music held its annual new year’s and cake-cutting ceremony last week at the Apostle Barnabas parish...
Holy Trinity Church near Bellingshausen Station on King George Island, Antarctica is the southernmost Orthodox church in the world. However,...
Who would visit a Russian Orthodox church on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, in a land of polar bears...
The Orthodox Deacon is the third and lowest degree of the major orders of clergy in the Orthodox Church, following...
If you call God your Father, then you’ll trust Him as your only, actual Father, Who is merciful and all-wise, unalterable in His love and perfection.
On February 7, 2020, the 102nd anniversary of the murder of Hieromarty Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia, divine...
The 15th-century Holy Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin is one of the most historic and famous churches of Russia....
The Metropolis of Chalkida, in central Greece, expressed its opposition earlier in the week to meditation and anti-stress seminars aimed...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received the ambassador from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Sufyan S. Qudah during a private audience...
Spiritual progress, brethren, is humility. There’s no other progress. In other words, the more a person descends into humility, the higher they ascend in spiritual measure.
The Clergy Syndesmos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada celebrated the Feast of its Patron, St. Photios the Great,...
The 24th Phidippides Award was bestowed last night to His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for his passionate advocacy of Hellenism and Orthodoxy during...
Avarice (“the love of money”) is the worship of idols, the daughter of unbelief, a lying excuse for illness, a...
