The ritual of the Washing of Feet was again held on Holy and Great Thursday, according to the ancient rites...
For us, Christians, who are illumined and enlightened in Christ, everything in this world has value and meaning only insofar as it’s a means and path to eternity. Because we see what’s not apparent and gaze upon the invisible. We regulate the whole of our lives in time on the basis of that which is eternal, what is human on the basis of the God/human. As long as there is something eternal within the sphere of the temporal, that’s what we live off. But when that’s missing, we’ll seek it beyond time, in the kingdom of the unending and invisible. We gaze upon everything through the prism of eternity, that is, through the prism of Christ, since He is the eternal God and ...
The descent in the Orthodox dogmatic system There is evidence for the Orthodox dogma of Christ’s descent into Hades both in Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition, though it is vague and general. Holy Scripture does not define in strictly dogmatic terms the details of the Redeemer’s descent into the kingdom of the dead, instead using general and symbolic expressions; nor did the ancient Church develop this dogma based on the Apostolic Tradition, since there was no reason to. The ancient Church Fathers occasionally made reference to the dogma of the descent, but not leave us with specific, systematic treatises concerning it. Instead, they were content to repeat the relevant passages in Scripture and the experience of the dogma in the worship ...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Holy Thursday officiated at the service of the Holy...
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There’s more grace in one of God’s little flowers that in a whole bunch of artificial paper ones. In the same way, the immaterial differs greatly from the nylon. » Venerable Païsios the Athonite
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The Greek government’s top coordinator and spokesman on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, infectious diseases professor Sotiris Tsiodras, devoted time...
Today is Thursday of Holy and Great Easter Week. In the evening, which was the eve of the feast of...
In a Patriarchal Encyclical on Holy Pascha, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, noted that the serious coronavirus...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in his message to the Orthodox faithful for Easter, stressed that “…During a time of great...
The Metropolitan of Messinia, His Eminence Chrysostomos, spoke this week with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki. In...
The online magazine Pempousia on Wednesday evening also hosted the first Internet broadcast of composer Giorgos Theofanous’ oratorium, entitled «Panagia, Τhe Mother of Light»,...
On Holy Wednesday afternoon, April 2/15, 2020, at 5.00 p.m., after the Service of the Small Compline, at the...
Struggle to live in such a way that at the hour of death you’ll have more joy than sorrow. Love death as a friend who will bring you closer to Christ » Elder Arsenie Boca (of Romania)
Moscow, April 15, Interfax – The Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called will bring the Holy Fire to Moscow from...
Romanian Orthodox Church and Ministry of Interior decided to distribute Holy Fire to faithful’s door
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania, in collaboration with the Romanian Orthodox Church, decided that the Holy Fire would...
On Lazarus Saturday, I realized I couldn’t find my copy of the services for Great Week, so, naturally, I went...
Given the strict quarantine measures in place in Moscow and in many places throughout Russia preventing the faithful from attending...
As we progress through Holy Week with self-isolation and the various messages or news items concerning the course of the corona virus, I remembered the ‘Gospel of the Testament’. It’s the first of the twelve Gospels read on the evening of Great Thursday. It’s also the longest because it contains the words the Lord said to His disciples on the last night of his life on earth, taken from all four of the Evangelists. He prepares them for the difficulties they will encounter and for His betrayal and death. He also explains that He is the way that leads to the Father, the true vine Who keeps alive those who remain attached to Him. But mostly He prepares them for the ...
