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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 ...

The time of the descent. As regards the time of the descent, we can see that Christ’s divine soul descended into Hades immediately after His exclamation on the Cross ‘It is finished’, when His soul was separated from His all-pure body. He remained there three days, until the Resurrection, a period during which His body lay without breath or decay in the tomb. This was from the evening of Friday to the morning of Sunday (See Matth., 12, 40; Acts 2, 31 and 13, 37; Ps. 15, 10; Luke 23, 43; John 20, 17; I Peter, 3, 19 etc.). This is why the Orthodox Church declared that the descent was to be celebrated on Great Saturday. The synaxari for the day ...

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia has issued his Paschal Message. Read the full text down below:   MAKARIOS by...

The Holy Flame was again transported to Greece this week, even amid strict restrictions due to the coronavirus, arriving at...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Divine Liturgy of the First Resurrection The Vespers of Holy and Great Saturday April...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has issued his Encyclical on the Great and Holy Pascha. Read the full text...

The Serbian Orthodox Church has issued its Patriarchal Paschal Encyclical 2020. Read the full text down below:   The Serbian...

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a video message for Easter in which he encourages the faithful to stay in communion...

The Patriarchate of Bulgaria has issued its Patriarchal And Synodal Paschal Epistle. Read the full text down below: Beloved in the...

Easter Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the...

† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND...

† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: MAY THE GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY OF CHRIST RISEN IN GLORY BE WITH YOU ALL * * * Dearest brother Hierarchs and beloved children in the Lord, Having arrived at Holy Pascha and becoming partakers of the joy of the Resurrection, we praise the Lord of glory, who trampled down death by death and resurrected with Him the entire race of Adam, opening for us all the gates of paradise. The splendid Resurrection of Christ is the confirmation that what prevails in the life of the world is not death, but the Savior who abolished the dominion of death. Formerly known ...

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church’s Society and Mass Mediа Relations, Vladimir Legoida, said Russian Orthodox clerics...

The Orthodoxia News Agency continues to post features and videos on the pilgrimage sites and sacred paths in Jerusalem, given...

The ritual of the Washing of Feet was again held on Holy and Great Thursday, according to the ancient rites...