Byzantine Chant is not just another form of music. It is a tool on which we can pray better. It...
The Elder (Saint Ieronymos Simonopetritis) related a story of something that happened to him at that time (about 1928, when he was still Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras): When I was in Thessaloniki the father of one of my spiritual children was moved by action of the devil and took it badly that his son wanted the follow the path of God. The man considered that I was responsible and decided to kill me. As I was going down a sloping street, I was warned not to continue, because I would be killed. But I said: ‘If that’s God’s will, so be it’. And, indeed, I saw the man who had threatened me aiming and shouting at me. I stopped ...
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Members of the US Senate on Thursday unanimously voted to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 by Ottoman empire...
The Feast Day of St. Spyridonas was celebrated on Thursday throughout the island republic of Cyprus, the saint’s birthplace,...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, was proclaimed as an honorary citizen of Bucharest this week, during...
The Civil Governor of Mt. Athos, Athanasios Martinos, has pledged to finance the complete renovation of the Theological School...
The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Lavra, in the northwest Peloponnese, Archimandrite Eusevios Spanos, provides an exclusive interview...
On 13th December 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met...
‘I came that they might have life and have it abundantly’. Saint Gregory Palamas interprets ‘abundant life’ as the life of sanctity, our adoption by God through Grace. Those who keep God’s commandments live the virtuous life in accordance with His commandments. They receive Divine Grace from Him and this becomes their inalienable possession. They acquire the divine predicates: love, wisdom, the uncreated light, ontological autonomy, and immortality. All of this is nothing other than a life of sanctity. » Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi
If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge,...
UNESCO has inscribed Byzantine chant in Cyprus and Greece on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Sunday performed the re-consecration of a 200-year old church dedicated to saint Demetrios the...
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania received Bucharest’s Honorary Citizenship for his contribution to the spirituality and education of...
His Grace Silvester celebrated Holy liturgy at that Church of St. Spyridon in Nsinze which was commemorating there patron saint...
Once when I was there where I was, some foreign missionary came and said to me, “You may be a...
2. The theory of force. It would seem that the theory of force is more or less confined to Greece. Its supporters invoke the persecutions of the early Byzantine emperors against the pagan priests and schools. In other words, they cite events which took place after the fourth century, when the victory of Christianity was already assured. They overlook the fact that the conversion of the large urban centers had already taken place before there were ever any ‘Christian’ emperors to turn against ancient paganism. In the pre-Byzantine period exactly the opposite happened: Greeks became Christians despite the persecutions of the Roman state. What was the ethnicity of the pre-Byzantine martyrs. We don’t have any such specialist study on martyrology at our disposal, ...
Watch Fr Jonah’s from Taiwan sermon on the Apostolic reading for the 14th Sunday of Luke.
The synodical department of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church Relations with Society and Mass Media, in cooperation with...
The northern Bulgaria city of Pleven this week celebrated the 142nd anniversary of its liberation from Ottoman rule, and...
