His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas in...
Those souls who are slothful and avoid labors, who don’t seek the sanctification of the heart in this life- not in part, but completely- should not expect to share in the communion of the Holy Spirit, nor to be liberated from the passions of wickedness. Even if they’re granted Divine Grace, they’re deceived by wickedness and abandon every spiritual care because they enjoy the merest taste of spiritual sweetness. So it’s easy for such souls to fall into pride, because they don’t strive to achieve perfect dispassion. Since they’re content with this slight augmentation of Grace, and make progress not in humility but in imperiousness, at some stage they’ll be stripped of the benefaction they’ve been given. Because, no matter ...
Children of St. Sava Camp; Past, Present & Future, With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irinej, we are excited...
Question: Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony speak repeatedly about the Holy Spirit. How do we experience the Holy Spirit according to their teaching? Answer: Everything begins from our faith in Christ and accepting His word. When we make His commandments the unique law of our life, then we gradually acquire a certain mystical depth. We become mystical, just as the Person of the Holy Spirit is mystical, secret, invisible. The Spirit of God works in us in diverse ways. Father Sophrony once explained to me that the prayer, ‘O God, cleanse Thou me, a sinner’ is addressed to the Holy Spirit. Thus, the Holy Spirit first of all cleanses us from our sins, heals us from the wounds of sin and ...
The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos...
Four objects of cultural heritage in the Pereslavl Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church have been pinpointed to receive federal...
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia has donated $325,000 to the Bega Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund, to be used...
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The Church today commemorates the Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist. John was greater than all who are born...
The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Tuesday announced the canonization of the late Metropolitan of Edessa,...
Greek foreign minister, Nikos Dendias, accompanied by visiting EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, toured...
The Holy Icon Axion Esti was venerated in centuries-old Mount Athos tradition this week at the semi-autonomous monastic community’s capital,...
Doing Their ‘PART’ to Help During a Pandemic There are parishes throughout the Archdiocese that have had the unenviable task...
His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia visited new premises of the Archives of the Serbian Church which was adapted during...
I’d like to reassure you that the Holy Mountain welcomes those people who themselves desire, want and seek to follow Christ. They come because they’ve taken to heart Christ’s ‘Follow me’. Christ said ‘Follow me’ to His twelve disciples, but He continues to this day to offer it to all those who sincerely desire Him and genuinely love Him.
On Monday, June 15th, 2020, with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the...
The 17th-century temple was restored in Veliky Novgorod, Interfax was told on Tuesday at the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve (GMZ). «The...
Saint Augustine, FL- On Friday, June 26, 2020, the Saint Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine will celebrate its annual “Greek...
(Interview to Ms. Lena Argyri and ERT TV via Kathimerini) “Our Church must open up and speak to the...
1. Introduction These days, when we talk about a spiritual father, we usually mean a priest who’s a confessor. But in Church tradition, the sense of spiritual paternity is much broader. Only God is the Father . Christ, Who is the Son of God, is revealed also as our father, by manifesting the love of the Father to the world. Christ in His paternal capacity is even clearer at the Ascension. His disciples have a premonition of their spiritual orphanhood and are overwhelmed by indescribable pain. The Lord doesn’t abandon them as orphans, however. He sends the Holy Spirit, Who guides them to ‘all the truth’ . Through the Holy Spirit, the Apostles begat spiritual children and transferred their gifts to bishops, ...
