The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Sunday, speaking after the ordinations of two clergymen, a deacon and a...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, speaking on the Sunday of the Ten Lepers, referred, in his sermon,...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, is set to conduct a pastoral visit to the northeast...
The Church today venerates the memory of St. Anthony the Great, considered the founder of monasticism in the East. On...
The Minister for Immigration, Mr Alex Hawke decided to exercise his discretionary power pursuant to Section 133C(3) of the Migration...
His Grace Bishop Jerotej of Toplica, Vicar Bishop of Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Liturgy in the Cathedral church of...
He is Worthy! AXIOS! With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, Mr Nicholas (Neal) Kakulas was ordained...
Two ordinations of clergy, a Deacon and a Priest, were conducted by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on Sunday,...
Jesus was going towards Jerusalem when, outside a small town, he encountered a group of ten lepers who entreated him loudly: ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us’ (Luke 17, 13). Leprosy was a terrible disease which in ancient times was devastating for those who contracted it and, in the end, proved fatal. If anyone showed the first signs of leprosy, they were seized and sent into exile, away from society, to prevent the spread of the disease. Thank God, we now have medicines to treat this terrible disease, and the relatively few new cases, mostly in the developing world, can be treated effectively. At the time of Christ, however, leprosy was very widespread. It presented an immediate danger to everyone and caused ...
‘If you align your will with rights, you won’t make the progress you should’ (Abba Dorotheos). The will is a gift from God to us. Those who distort the teaching of the Church and say that God wants us to be his slaves, to do whatever he wants without a choice, are wrong. From the beginning of our history on the earth, the will has been a feature of our existence, since we’re made in the image of God. The will is linked to our freedom. We’re free to want something out of love for God and observance of his commandments; and we’re free to make ourselves gods. This is why the will and the right to renounce our self is freedom ...
As every year, this year too, the great Feast of Christmas was celebrated on January 7 with brilliance and spiritual...
On Thursday evening, 31 December 2021/ 13 January 2022, the cutting of the New Year cake took place at the...
On Thursday 31 December 2021/ 13 January 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of Saint Melani. On this feast, the...
Romania’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, Brândușa Predescu, met on Tuesday with His Beatitude Patriarch Neophyte at the headquarters of the Orthodox...
Romanians in Dubai could have their own church, Patriarch Daniel said at the end of the Christmas Divine Liturgy. The...
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Professor Nicholas Ganson, co-director of The Greek Revolution through American Eyes bicentennial exhibition now on display at HCHC’s Maliotis Cultural...
On Thursday, January 13, 2022, Father Nicolas Kazarian of the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, along with Dr....
A. Examine the bad habits and proclivities you’ve accumulated over the course of your life. If they’re long-standing, they’ll need more effort if you’re to defeat them; less if they’re more recent. Just as it takes greater effort to cut down and uproot an ancient, sturdy tree than it does a sapling. B. Examine the cures you need to apply for these bad habits and proclivities. The first of these is that you have to want to rectify your condition, not half-heartedly, but decisively. Because bodily ailments can be remedied without any effort of will, but those of the soul can’t be cured so easily. That’s because they require a firm intention on the part of the person suffering if they’re ...
From its earliest years, the Church has honored martyrs in blood and martyrs in conscience. ‘Martyrs in conscience’ were saintly monastics and ascetics who lived in the wilderness. There’s a difference between monastics and ascetics. Monastics are those who live all together in large coenobitic monasteries, while ascetics or anchorites live in isolation in secluded, inaccessible caves. Both monastics and ascetics are people who have left behind worldly matters and have dedicated themselves to something better and more perfect. These are also the people of whom Saint Basil the Great wrote: ‘they proved to have greater than human capabilities’. One such was Saint Theodosios the Coenobiarch, the memory of whom the Church keeps today. Saint Theodosios was born in 423 in ...
