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Paschal Message of Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monastics and All the Faithful Children of the...

In the morning of April 19, 2020, the feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, Paschal Matins and festive Divine...

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain has issued an announcement thanking UK PM Boris Johnson for his...

Ecumenical Patriarch to the Young: You can turn the pandemic of fear and disease into an opportunity for support and...

For the first time in its long history, Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology will hold combined...

By the mercy of God Almighty John X Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to My brothers, Pastors of...

Paschal Greetings of His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East- Pascha 2020 Beloved one, I here...

Synodal, state, and municipal guidelines to local believers about restrictions of church services during past Lent did not imply closure of Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Christian sacred spaces, because hospitals, pharmacies, and shops would not stop working and people were allowed to buy food, medicines, and to get emergent healthcare. Bulgarian Orthodox Church naturally insists on enjoying of public rights of limited and strictly controlled presence in churches, including those opening only several times in the year, and remaining aware that some temples are still closed from communist times, or even abandoned later. Meanwhile contemporary social consolidation resulted in charity and volunteering in health and social care, and church also offered spiritual support as pastoral care, and became transmitting online more ...

Nobody can say exactly when and how tears come. They well up suddenly. Of course, you shouldn’t weep so that people will see you. Profound repentance is tears unseen. You suddenly feel such a sinner and immediately the tears start from your eyes. » Elder Arsenie Boca (of Romania)

Christ is Risen! His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, together with the entire plenitude of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, mourns...

  The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the All Saints, in Munich, Germany, was decorated with a subject of hagiography that...

Easter Monday, April 7/20, 2020, was celebrated as the Feast of Easter, according to the tradition at the Patriarchal and...

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Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! Today is Renewal Monday or Bright Monday, the day after Holy and Great Easter Sunday,...

For the hundreds of millions of Orthodox faithful around the world, this year’s Holy and Great Easter was unprecedented due...

The Easter Sunday Vespers, the Service of Agape, was conducted at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount...

The first online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery...

If you comply with the words of God and have no regrets in your conscience, and if you’re calm and perform good works, then you’ll gradually feel your way into prayer, smoothly, until grace comes. » Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

We should realize that, as long as we’re in sin, that is, transgressing against Christ’s divine commandments, we can be as pious as we like, read all the prayers of the saints, the various hymns and the canons all day every day, it will get us nowhere. Since the Lord Himself said, as a reproof and complaint: ‘Why do you call me “Lord, Lord” but not do as I say?’ In other words: ‘As long as you live in breach of my commandments, there’s no point in directing lots of long prayers towards me’. Only one prayer is pleasing to Him: that is the practical prayer which consists in abandoning, with all our soul and forever, every breach of His holy commandments ...