When people quarrel among themselves they all say they’re right. The only trouble is they take more right than they have a right to, and that’s why they’re always quarrelling.
Many wonder why Great Lent holds forty days. To be very accurate, Great Lent does not last forty days but...
On February 27 2020, at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary an event, titled “We Are Learning Foreign Languages” was held....
By Fr Stephen Freeman The first service of Great Lent in the Orthodox Church is “Forgiveness Vespers,” served on the eve of Monday of the First Week. There is nothing unusual about the service itself – other than the “rite of forgiveness” appended to it. In this, the priest and the faithful ask forgiveness of one another. Often this is done with mutual prostrations. Each asks the forgiveness of the other. The rite can take time, depending on the number in attendance. When it is complete, the long labors of Lent can begin. Fasting without forgiveness would be a hollow activity. This is a meditation I shared with my parish this week as the Sunday of Forgiveness approaches: Perhaps the most generous ...
+ BARTHOLOMEW BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH, MAY THE GRACE AND PEACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, TOGETHER WITH OUR PRAYER, BLESSING AND FORGIVENESS BE WITH YOU ALL *** We offer hymns of thanks to the God of love as once again we enter Holy and Great Lent, the arena of ascetic struggle, fasting and abstinence, of vigilance and spiritual awareness, of guarding our senses and prayer, of humility and self-knowledge. We are commencing a new and blessed pilgrimage toward Holy Pascha, which has “opened for us the gates of paradise.” In Church and as Church, as we behold the Risen Lord of glory, we all journey together along the way of deification by grace ...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called requested from the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, the Church’s...
The Press office of the Romanian Patriarchate published a communiqué on February 27, 2020, in the context of excessive media coverage of...
On Thursday, February 27, 2020, the Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of...
His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej arrived in the United States of America in the afternoon hours of February 27, 2020....
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, will stay in the United States of America from 27 February until 5 March 2020....
My body is a well-meaning enemy and a threatening friend. What a strange affiliation and alienation. What I fear, I honor and what I take care of, I fear. Before I wage war against it, I’m reconciled to it and before I make peace with it, I oppose it.
A nation without faith in God does not become free, neither advances further as a civilization. Only in this way...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, together with leading Trustees of the “Friends of Saint Nicholas,” held an informational national...
On Friday, February 28, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios welcomed the Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, to the Archdiocesan...
Following the formal announcement that Leadership 100 Board of Trustees approved a grant of five million dollars for Saint Nicholas...
(Folk Song) (or… as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats) (The Gospel) Many people, in the past as well as today, deny any metaphysical version of our life in a state of Paradise (perfect well-being) or hell (the torment of utter, permanent solitude) and laugh at the folk-art engravings which depict hell as a ‘locus’ of fire and bodily torments and Paradise as a ‘garden’ with a freshly-mown lawn and lots of flowers where idle morons, full of the virtues, stroll about. They claim that such things don’t exist and that therefore ‘here is Paradise and hell’s here, too’. But let’s look at the song in detail In chapter 25 of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Christ describes our relationship to God ...
In Larnaka, the son of a teacher had cancer of the brain. One night he had a dream about a venerable elder who said to him: ‘What’s up son? Why are you suffering and in pain?’ The boy replied: ‘It’s my head’. The elderly man then said to him: ‘Come to my house and I’ll cure you’ ‘Where do you live?’ The saint said: ‘My house is in Evrykhou and my name’s Kyriakos’. When he woke, the boy told his father and they set off together for Evrykhou. When they got there, they asked if there was a Saint Kyriakos and, when they found out that his church was a little way outside the village, to the north, they took the village priest with them and ...
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A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan said she is going to...
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church on Friday, Feb. 28, commemorated the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian Exarchate. The...
