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2nd e-Meeting with Elder Ephraim and Romanian Faithful, with the Blessings of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Tue. 16 Feb 2021 – 19:30 PM Athens EET   Theme – LOVE NEVER ENDS – Elder Efrem in dialogue with Romanian teenagers and young couples! Dear friends, You are invited to participate in the “2nd e-Meeting with Elder Ephraim and Romanian Faithful“, organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA with the Blessings of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania. The e-Meeting will take place Tuesday, Feb 16, 2021, at 07:30 PM Athens EET. Elder Ephraim will speak in Greek and we will offer real-time Romanian and English Interpretation for the entire session, including the homily as well as the questions & answers. Please register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following ...

While we’re in church, our behavior should be appropriate, befitting those who are standing before God. We shouldn’t get involved in pointless discussions, but should rather stand with fear and trembling, with attention and readiness, with our gaze trained on the earth and our soul raised to the heavens. Saint John Chrysostom

2. Western culture as the center of the modern world The world today is dominated by Western culture. There are, of course, other cultures but none of them defines people’s lives so definitively as does the culture of the West. Its achievements in the realms of the sciences, technology and so on have made it a global, political and economic power and have a made it a ‘model’ to which all the peoples of the world are drawn. This culture is also the main historical context in which Orthodoxy functions today. If Greece is considered the most unmitigatedly Orthodox sphere in our day and age, it is clear that Orthodoxy has no more immediate culture to take on confrontthan that which ...

The online platform Pemptousia hosts all of the previous online assemblies from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the...

The Bishop of Budimlje and Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, the temporary vicar – or locum tenens – of the Serbian...

The municipality of Elefsina, west of Athens proper in the same-name industrial district, will proceed with major upgrades to its...

The state-appointed general director of religious foundations, Burhan Ersoy, this month was quoted as saying that the restoration and preservation...

The Church today venerates the memory of Onesimus, the Apostle of the 70. This saint was a disciple of the...

When the righteous Symeon held the Holy Infant in his arms at the Temple of Jerusalem, he prostrated his soul before Almighty God, glorifying the majesty of His Divinity with these words: “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word; For my eyes have seen Your salvation …” In the previous Homily, we began our examination of the Song (Praise) of Symeon by highlighting two major themes that can be found in the text. We continue now with a third, which is the desire to peacefully end our earthly journey, allowing our souls to enter the heavenly kingdom. The honorable Symeon was deemed worthy to see Christ the Savior, and as a result he felt that his work in ...

His Grace Bishop Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South-Central America celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Donji Ostrog on the...

The Faith Charitable Stewardship of the Diocese of Timok celebrated its Patron Saint-day – the Holy Three Hierarchs on 12...

Each day God gives us a precious gift: 1440 minutes of life. He offers us the freedom to do whatever...

The Canaanite woman represents the pagan, idolatrous world. She was considered by traditional Jews to be not merely a foreigner but also an infidel. So the woman, and the whole of the people she represented, was an unbeliever and a sinner. In other words, she deserved to be rejected and subjected to eternal condemnation. Moreover, there was a general conviction among faithful Jews that God had not included such people in His plan for salvation and that they were therefore to be held in contempt. It was this negative spirit which was expressed by the disciples when they were annoyed by the cries of the despairing woman, entreating the Teacher to cure her daughter: ‘Have mercy on me, Lord… my daughter ...

Those who desire to do the will of God have the angels as guides. Those who bear slanders with humility have reached the heights of perfection and are admired by the angels. Saint Isaac the Syrian

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Assumption Denver, Colorado February 14, 2021   Beloved Brother,...

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism will create destinations for pilgrimage tourism to encourage visits to holy places in Bulgaria, Bulgaria’s Tourism...

Priests’ arrogance, together with a number of other erroneous moments, affect their sermon on social networks, which sometimes does not...

On Sunday 14 February, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyaneon visited the Holy Monastery of St George, Yellow Rock, Springwood,...

The President of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Alenksandar Vucic received His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac,, accompanied by...