Part I – September 9 Beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time 1.Opening Session Will include the Keynote Address of Archbishop...
The Steering Committee of the “Patriarchal Network” The novel coronavirus has brought an overwhelming strain on public health systems throughout...
The Holy Eparchial Synod met today in an extraordinary video conference at the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros...
(edited by Stelios Koukos) Archimandrite Avgoustinos Katsambiris had repeatedly asked the Elder (Saint Païsios the Athonite) to pray that the newly-revealed Saint Vlasios, from Sklavaina, would appear to him. The archimandrite wanted to know what Saint Vlasios looked like, so that he could paint an icon of him. It was 21 January, 1980, the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, going on to Monday. While the Elder was praying in his kelli, with the komboskini, he saw an unknown saint appear before him, bathed in light and wearing a monastic mantle. Next to him, on the wall of his kelli, above the wood-stove, there were the remains of a monastery. The Elder felt indescribable joy and exultation and wondered who the saint was. Then ...
‘Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women’. (Acts 17, 4). When Paul preached in the synagogue in Thessaloniki, he was addressing the Jewish inhabitants of the city, in accordance with Christ’s instruction, which became standard practice for him: he would speak first to his co-religionists for whom he was especially concerned, judging by the epistles (Rom. 9-11). Thereafter he would turn his attention to the pagans. In the specific case of Thessaloniki, after Paul had preached for three Sabbaths in the synagogue, the results, as regards conversions, were limited: ‘some of them were persuaded’. But of the devout Greeks, that is those ...
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His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel told the Ecumenical Patriarch that the Romanian Patriarchate supports the preservation of the current status of...
The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Great Martyr Procopius. Procopius in Greek means «progress” or “advancement», a...
The Orthodox mission of north Madagascar, under the supervision of its Metropolitan, His Eminence Ignatios, continued to offer humanitarian support...
The Russian Church continues its significant charity and social work amid the ongoing pandemic, which has exacerbated social problems in...
The Archdiocese of Australia this week announced a temporary suspension in public worship at its parishes in the greater Melbourne...
Continued threats by the Erdogan administration in Turkey to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, the remaining and...
An eighth joint ministerial decision applying temporary measures for all places of worship in Greece, ones aimed to protect the...
While the Irish island of Little Skellig was long thought to have been inhabited by nothing but a variety of...
On Wednesday, June 25/July 8, 2020, H.H.B. Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos stated the following regarding the keeping of the Status...
The number of requests for food aid continues to grow in the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church both in...
The Montenegrin Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church honored Miroslav Koprivica, the backhoe driver who quit his job rather than...
Egotism is a weird passion that’s a scourge of the whole of the human race. We all suffer from this great sickness. Egotism makes a fool and a mockery of egotistical people. God calls on us to fight against this egotism, to defeat it and to rid ourselves of it.
The Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care has offered the Prayer During the Pandemic Crisis in 12...
One of the Elders said: ‘Above all, we need humility, to be ready to say “Forgive me” whatever is said to us. Because through humility, everything from the enemy and hinderer is destroyed’ . Let us see power of the elder’s words. Why does he say that we require humility above all, instead of ‘We need restraint above all’? For the Apostle tells us that ‘those who enter games always show restraint’ (I Cor. 9, 25) ? Or why does he not say: ‘Above all we need fear of God’? For Scripture tells us that the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord (Ps. 110, 10) And again that all those who fear the Lord depart from evil (Prov. ...
