Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Happy New Year! I greet each of you with prayers for joy, peace, health,...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros will travel to Tarpon Springs this week for the 115th Annual Epiphany celebration. In light of...
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church Windham, New York January 3, 2021 Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Yesterday, we...
The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Christmas, 2020 The Holy Hierarchical Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church...
The second group of new members of the cabinet, following a reshuffle, arrived at the presidential mansion to be sworn...
The first six of the new ministers and deputy ministers joining the government or switching portfolios were sworn in by...
Pemptousia will commence live broadcasts from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi of the Holy All-night Vigil on the eve of the Christmas Feast (based on the Julian calendar). The broadcast will begin on Wednesday, Jan. 6 and continue into Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, commencing at 21.00 (19.00 GMT). The link for the live broadcast is at Pemptousia.fm: You may listen to the online radio station here https://www.pemptousia.gr/pemptousia-web-radio/ For the Android platform click here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gr.radio.pemptousia For ios here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pemptousia-fm/id815566301 On FACEBOOK the official page of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi is at: https://fb.me/e/3row5lZZ4 If you’d like to rebroadcast the Holy All-night Vigil, please use the following link, which can be imbedded in your programming: http://stream.radiojar.com/48cz219puzzuv
Hierarchs Porfirije, Gerasim and Nikodim gave words of encouragement and consolation to the victims, and agreed with the priests on...
Watch our news bulletin in English with Charilaos Tzannis: Πηγή: www.orthodoxianewsagency.gr
A thanksgiving service was held at the St. Nedelya Church to mark the 143rd anniversary of Sofia’s Liberation from Ottoman...
This year marks the dour 50th anniversary of the closure of the Halki School of Theology, engineered by Turkish authorities...
Children of the local Orthodox mission in the impoverished Congo city of Katanga this week conveyed their thanks to the...
The online radio platform Pemptousia this week will broadcast the Christmas Eve All-night Vigil – as based on the Julian...
A trio of Serbian Orthodox hierarchs over the weekend toured the quake-ravaged Petrinja district in Croatia, which was hit by...
LISTEN LIVE Vigil of the Nativity of Christ in Vatopedi: Great Compline, Vespers from Liti, Matins Wednesday 6 January at 21:00 Greek Time until early morning Thursday 7 January 2021 You may listen live the Vigil of the Nativity of Christ in Vatopedi via Pemptousia Web Radio: https://www.pemptousia.gr/pemptousia-web-radio/ For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gr.radio.pemptousia For iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pemptousia-fm/id815566301 In FACEBOOK: Via the official FB page of the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi https://fb.me/e/3row5lZZ4
Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened during an extraordinary session on Monday, under...
A Cabinet reshuffle was announced in Greece on Monday, a widely expected political development. The reshuffle was announced by new...
The Church today venerates the memory of St. Nikephoros the Leper, who was canonized in 2012. The venerable Nikiforos was...
The online radio platform Pemptousia will commence live broadcasts from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy and Great Monastery of...
The theological significance of the Nativity Apart from being a historical event, the Birth of Christ is the ‘great mystery of godliness’ (I Tim. 3, 16). What exactly is this mystery? The fact that ‘God appeared in the flesh’ (I Tim. 3, 16), that He became a human person. ‘The mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed’ (16, 25). Essentially, this is the mystery of our salvation, which is performed and wrought by the Son of God Himself, Who became human precisely to save the whole of our race from ‘servitude to the enemy’. Through His coming into the world, the Son of God unites with us and saves us: on the one hand, human nature is united to ...
