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...
A charity event featuring bell-ringing was held at the Cathedral of the Nativity in the city of Vrchni Uralye, in...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday officially welcomed and met with the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, with...
The Bishop of Budimlija-Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, called on the faithful to resist what he called a serious injustice against...
A handful of major ecclesiastical issues face the world’s ancient and junior Orthodox Patriarchates, the Autocephalous Archbishoprics and the Autocephalous...
The message of Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga to the Youth during the recently concluded Youth Camp at Holy Resurrection Cathedral Jinja...
In a special New Year’s Eve watch night service Tuesday, Patriarch Daniel offered a message encouraging people to see the...
The annual New Year reception of the Heads of the Christian Churches and their respective accompanying parties, withheld by the...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has expressed concern and sadness over the...
His Eminence Metropolitan of Ambrosios of Korea has released his New Year’s Message 2020. Read the full text below: ...
On Tuesday, December 18/31, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Modestos, Patriarch of Jerusalem....
Surrounded by clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Sydney, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios presided over the traditional cutting of...
If each of us did whatever good we were capable of, there’d be no unhappy people in the world.
2020 NEW YEAR’S ENCYCLICAL “The fields thirst for water and the mountains for snow. The slave, she thirsts for freedom for so many years” (popular song). Our poor soul thirsts for the light of the God-Man. The year 2019 is over. Let us take a look at what happened. Unfortunately, the picture is not very encouraging. Wars. Disorder. Poverty. Troubles. Refuges drowning in the sea. They are trying to find a better life. Do they achieve this? Not always. Blood was spilled abundantly. Terrorists with knives slit the throats of the innocent. People lose their minds and kill indiscriminately with guns. Men. Women. Children. Students in school. So here it is: blood was shed abundantly in 2019. The year 2020 is upon us. We gaze at it ...
Our good God gave us Time to draw us closer to Him, and space to draw us closer to each...
