Wicked envy is unjust hostility towards someone who’s enjoying something good. It’s enduring, never-ending hostility. This malice is a difficult passion, which inflames those who have it to the point where they even disregard their own salvation. Such malice blackens everything good.
Although he was an innovator , the attitude of the Apostle of the Gentiles towards the achievements of Greek civilization was one of respect and he didn’t hesitate to see them as part of God’s providence and to incorporate them into the Biblical tradition. “‘For in him we live and move and have our being”. As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring’” (v. 28). A clear reference to Aratos (Phenomena, 5). At the time when Saint Paul dared to express the Christian message in the capital of the ancient spiritual world, the Greek world- as many thinkers have observed- had made astonishing strides in terms of spiritual development, through the wonderful deployment of reason as the ...
New Orthodox church dedicated to St. Seraphim of Sarov was inaugurated this month in the Philippines by the Russian Orthodox...
The political crisis in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro continues to simmer, after the current government drafted and ratified...
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos will pay his first official visit to Egypt this week. The Greek minster will received...
The Church today commemorates the First and Second Finding of the Venerable Head of John the Baptist. The first finding...
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Liturgy with the concelebration of His Grace Bishop Ignatije of Branicevo at...
13th February 1972 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to an ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgement. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our own hands, because next week is the day of Forgiveness. The link between these two days is too obvious. If we only could become aware that all and each of us stand before the judgement of God and the judgement of men, if we could remember and realise with depth, wholeheartedly, in earnest that we are, all of us, indebted to each other, all responsible to each other for some of the pain and ...
The enemy often wounds our soul and sears us with his ill-will. Unless we heal that wound immediately with fervent prayer and faith it’ll become gangrene in our heart. God also wounds our heart, with His love, but this wound is sweet, welcome. It doesn’t burn but warms and invigorates.
NEW YORK – Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America announced that the Annual Archon Lenten Retreat will take...
Archbishop Elpidophoros, the primate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, caused a stir yesterday at...
Neither His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch nor any other hierarchs of the Antiochian Patriarchate will attend the upcoming...
Outside of Church services, an Orthodox Bishop is recognizable by his wearing a traditional necklace-chain and medallion depicting a...
SAINT AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The Saint Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine welcomed His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of...
Cheese lovers rejoice! Today marks the beginning of ‘Tyrini’ the week where Greeks worldwide enjoy loads of dairy, cheese and...
Parabola Înfricoșatei Judecăți începe spunând că Iisus ne va despărți „precum desparte păstorul oile de capre”. Bine, dar ce legătură...
The parable of the Last Judgment begins by saying that Jesus will separate us “as the shepherd divides the...
Watch Very. Rev. Dr. Nikolai Sakharov’s speech at the International Conference “The Theological Legacy of Archpriest Georges Florovsky”. The conference was organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies.
The greatest power on earth is the Grace of God.
We live only once in this hollow life. There aren’t any return tickets. We should make sure we use the time of our life properly. It should be a time of repentance, whether we’re rich or poor.
