Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Vlassis this week spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency about preparations underway in Athens to...
The well-attended and festive annual ceremony welcoming the Holy Flame to Russia has been cancelled this month, according to the...
The Feast Day of the Annunciation was celebrated on Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Savior in Moscow, with a...
The Church today venerates the memory of Celestine, a fifth century Pope of Rome who was renowned for his reverence...
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed condolences to Patriarch Irenaeus of Serbia upon the demise of...
His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco has released the following statement regarding Holy Week 2020. Read the full text...
In response to the growing need for resources for parishes and faithful during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America led the first in a series of daily prayers for those faithful of the...
Church-affiliated volunteers who help vulnerable persons during the coronavirus crisis will receive disposable coveralls made by the tailor shops of...
It is undoubtedly the most vexing period of mankind globally in reflection to our connection to our Lord and Savior...
Love everyone, indiscriminately. Don’t think about whether they’re weak or sinful. Don’t think about sin, but about where people come from, which is the image of God Himself. Don’t get upset over the weaknesses of others, their badness, pride, envy, avarice or gluttony. You yourself aren’t without sins. In the end, if we’re talking about sin, everybody’s in the same boat.
This pandemic is not a chance occurrence allowed by God, but a sign of the times; it is a fruit of Divine indignation, as man is doing not what is natural, what is reasonable, but what is absurd and abnormal. Imagine how dismayed the Holy Spirit is, and how God the Father, again in His paternal role – because we should never forget that any tribulation allowed by God is not as executioner, or as an avenger, but allowed as a didactic motivated by love, precisely in order to bring man – the wanderer, the obscured – to bring him, through affliction and misfortune, through this lesson, closer to Him; and for him (man) to comprehend, not through the study ...
Holy Unction during pandemic is one of the most necessary services, however it seems that it is performed much less...
CONSTANTINOPLE – His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed his fraternal wishes to his Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and...
This pandemic is not a chance occurrence allowed by God, but a sign of the times; it is...
The way the Church lives is in the end times. From the moment Christ ascended into heaven, the Church has never ceased to await His return to the world. The eschatological expectation manifests itself to the faithful in different ways in different eras. On the Sunday of Meat-Fare, this was the opening sentence of the two-page sheet The Voice of the Lord, which is published by Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece and distributed to those who want it at the time of the Holy Liturgy, on a Sunday. So that Sunday I went to church because, apart from anything else, I’d hear about the Second Coming. A difficult subject, for theologians and everyone. The editor of The Voice ...
The International Association of Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care is participating, along with its members, associates, researchers, lecturers and...
Nowadays, Christians are going through difficult times due to the pandemic, which is preventing them from going to church and actively participating in the daily rich liturgical life of the Great Lent. We are on the threshold of Holy Week. Is it enough to listen to the prayers broadcasted by the social media, such as Facebook? How do we truly experience these prayers for our lives, since today we are denied for health reasons to go to church? In the days of adversity, persecution, and epidemic, and in times of prosperity, health and peace, the voice of St. John Chrysostom addressing the Christians of his era resounded as follows: “Let your house be a church!” (Homily on Acts 26, 3.4). How can ...
JERUSALEM – Israelis who have beards for religious reasons will get the option of custom-made face masks to protect them...
Reverend Fathers, Honourable Presidents and Esteemed Members of the Boards of Directors, Members of the Philoptochos Societies, Teachers, Students and...
