Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 the monastic community of Meteora and particularly the monasteries Meghalo...
The term ‘Tradition’ is used in the Church to denote the sum of the truths of the faith which have been preserved orally and passed on to the Church, as a living repository of the experience of its body. In essence, Tradition is the ark in which are preserved and transferred, on the one hand, the accumulated experience of the past and, on the other, the articles of faith which are of saving significance for the body of the faithful and which have been passed on orally over the centuries, incorporated and adjusted to the environment of the truths of the Church. We often find that the notion of Tradition in the Church is defined with some sort of adjective, ...
The Gospel reading for the Sunday before Christmas is taken from the beginning of Saint Matthew’s Gospel. It describes first the genealogy of Christ according to the flesh and then God’s dispensation regarding His birth from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. Let’s turn our attention to the significance of this event for each one of us. Every year, in an atmosphere of joy and exultation, the Church celebrates the Birth of Christ and sings beautiful hymns to the incarnate God Who remakes our corrupted human nature. Orthodox hymnography and theology acclaim the enormous importance of the divine incarnation for humankind: from hopeless decay and the chaos of destructive hatred, we are saved by the love of God, Who took ...
On Saturday and Sunday, December 14-15, 2019, Eastern American Diocesan Vicar Bishop Luke of Syracuse performed an archpastoral visit to...
A large church dedicated to the Holy Archangel Michael was under construction for over a century. This church is incredibly...
Christians from Sungai Tambang, Sijunjung Regency and Jorong Kampung Baru, Dharmasraya Regency in West Sumatra, are banned from holding worship...
Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, announced on 17 December the deployment of 192,000 security personnel to safeguard...
‘The over 1,000 heroes who died 30 years ago are spiritual founders of the National Cathedral. For them and for...
On the 20th of December, Friday, the representatives of the staff of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary visited Public School...
Within the framework of the programme “Friendship between the Higher Educational Institutions of Georgia and Raising and Encouragement of the...
On the 20th of December, Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary was visited by the Director of the Centre of Research...
Nothing pleases God so much as when we don’t return evil for evil. >Saint John Chrysostom
On 18th December 2019, a meeting of the commission for acceptance of decoration works at the Church of St. Sava...
Last weekend Metropolitan Alexios made a pastoral visit to Annunciation Church in Winston Salem, NC. There he elevated several local...
His Beatitude John X Patriarch of Antioch and all the East has released this year’s Nativity Pastoral Letter. Read the...
In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen...
Part 2 of an open letter from Tertullian to Scapula, Proconsul of Africa (i.e. the Roman province around Carthage, not the whole continent), who had begun persecuting Christians, sometime soon after August 14, 212 AD (an eclipse visible in Utica is referred to). Tertullian tells Scapula that Christians honor the emperor, as Christ instructed, and that God doesn’t want sacrifices of blood and gore, but prayer, as Psalm 50 says. He reminds Scapula that there are a great many Christians in his province, a veiled threat that, if things go badly, the emperor will not be happy. At the end, he says that even if Scapula continues to kill Christians, he’s really doing them a favor, since they are happy to ...
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His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has released his Christmas 2019 Encyclical. Read the full text below: Protocol No. 68/19...
The former press secretary for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, priest Alexander Volkov, will now head an information...
