You have to practice if you’re to recognize immediately through the movement of your heart what’s approaching you- good or ill. It should be the same as recognizing something salty or unsalted, sweet or sour with your tongue.
The modern double-headed eagle flag for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and of Mount Athos, features the eagle with a...
On Jan 4, 2020, at the occasion of these glorious feasts, His Beatitude Patriarch John X met with the clergy...
(As told by Saint Iosif the Hesychast): Once I was kneeling at the window, as I usually did, saying the Jesus Prayer. It was late at night in the summer and I had the window open. Once I’d collected my thoughts, and was saying the prayer with great serenity, my mind opened and I was able to see wherever I wanted, without hindrance. I saw our own Father Athanasios on the road from Saint Ann’s Skete, coming towards the house with a cloth bag. I accompanied him all the while and was with him all the way. The brotherhood of Saint Iosif the Hesychast (seated centre with a walking-stick). From the left: Fr. Athanasios, Hieromonk Efraim (Filotheou and Arizona), Elder Arsenios, Elder Iosif ...
Saint Efraim, whose secular name was Konstantinos Morfis, was born in Trikala, on 14 September 1384 in an idyllic place near the River Lithaios. He lost his father at a young age and he and his seven siblings were brought up, with God’s help, by his mother. At the age of 14, in order to escape enforced conversion to Islam and enlistment in the corps of Janissaries, he entered the then flourishing Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God on the Mountain of the Spotless in Attica. Saint Efraim followed Christ with fervent zeal and stood out for the luminosity of his life and his ascetic efforts in the monastery, in the neighborhood of ...
Concerning the latest developments in Montenegro, regarding the adoption of the draft Law on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the...
Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro “…Terrible injustice is being imposed against the Serbian Orthodox Church;...
With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of...
On Friday morning, December 21-2019/ January 3-2020, Matins was held at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen of...
Archpriest Milosav Jovanovic: the Gentiles rose to persecute the Church of Christ, to persecute Christ from Montenegro. After an acathist...
Bishop Irinej of Bačka believes that the Jerusalem Patriarchate as a Church founded by Christ has the right and duty...
His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia has issued a fire appeal. Read the full text below: My dear friends,...
Archbishop Sotirios visited Calgary, Alberta as he has done for many years on the 31st of December. That evening, he...
The wrath of God is a painful feeling for those who are being educated by Him. It hurts when we’re visited by unwelcome pain, through which God often brings a mind puffed up with its own virtue and knowledge to mortification and humility. In this way He allows the mind to become aware of itself and its feebleness. When this happens, people discard any sense of vain pride they’ve been harboring in their heart. The wrath of God is the cessation of the provision of divine gifts to any mind that elevates itself to the heights and boasts of the good things it has given to God as if these were its own.
The soul, being created rational and understandable by the life-giving breath of God, was not created at once with irrational...
a) In every age, people want to measure, monitor and confer value on time, and, if at all possible, to surpass its limits. This can be seen from the monuments of world civilization, as well as from some of the notions which have been expressed regarding them. For the peoples outside the Bible and in secular religions, mythological views have developed on the sacredness and recycling properties of time. And so the concept arose that time recycles itself. This was the view that dominated Ancient Greek thought. Source:/www.digital-camera.gr/ b) In the pre-Christian period a variety of festal cycles arose. The first of each month, the first day of the year, the equinoctes, the solstices, and other important events were grounds for celebration. In ...
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The Divine Liturgy was also celebrated in the Greek sign language on Thursday by the Metropolis of Halkida, in south-central...
The Metropolis of Serres and Nigrita, in northern Greece, announced a total of 179 scholarships for college students on New...
Christian Orthodox faithful in the Republic of the Congo celebrated the advent of the new year during a midnight service...
