In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting our world, all of the Greek-American Day and Afternoon School...
Even the demons know quite well who Elder Joseph was. When exorcisms were being read over a possessed woman in Thessalonica, she began shouting: “That Joseph! He went to Philotheou. He’s protecting Philotheou Monastery, and I can’t do anything to them!” Everyone who heard this wondered how she knew about Elder Joseph and that his skull was at Philotheou. She herself, of course, didn’t know this, but the demon inside her did. In 1982 Father Stephanos Anagnostopoulos in Athens was reading the exorcism prayers for a different possessed woman. He described what happened as follows: While I was reading the second exorcism prayer, I noetically invoked the intercessions of Elder Joseph and of my spiritual father, Elder Ephraim. At that moment, the possessed woman ...
‘And after beating them harshly, they put them in prison and told the jailer to guard them well’. From the outset, Christianity has been associated with mistrust. It’s not just that belief in Christ engenders a way of life which is not pleasing to the world, since the main facets of this life are the rejection of the authority of the ego, and the adoption of asceticism, particularly that love which doesn’t react in the usual way of self-interest, vengeance and concern for enrichment. Instead it offers and is offered, while its faith in eternity and the resurrection, that is fearlessness in the face of death, is a cause of bewilderment. How is it that, in an atmosphere in which death ...
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Twenty two years ago today His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew began his remarkable nine-day, eight-city trip to Canada, which culminated...
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, continues to stand by the side of his compatriots during the ongoing coronavirus, having...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, in a sermon on the Sunday of the Blind Man, underlined...
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem continues to be off-limits to worshipers, despite a previous announcement citing...
Georgia’s parliament last week has passed a law allowing the Georgian Orthodox Church to claim hundreds of hectares of...
The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week reported yet another instance of harassment of an Orthodox cleric...
New research led by Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that people who attend religious services at...
The Church today commemorates the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist. Πηγή: www.orthodoxianewsagency.gr
The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain completed its first cycle of Liturgics Seminars successfully today, Saturday 23rd May, with...
Persecution of Christians in China: as we have reported here for quite some time, the Chinese government is in the...
I greet you my beloved with love and joy in the name of our Resurrected Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!...
Lord and Master of my Life..” is how the Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian, commences. It is not...
When divine Grace comes, we stand in concentration, self-control and prayer.
Religious officials said that reopening was postponed but did not give a new date JERUSALEM: Two months after it was...
To His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia Your Holiness, Vladyko! CHRIST IS RISEN! On behalf of...
The contest is organized to present the diversity and beauty of Orthodoxy in Finland. Through this contest, which will culminate with an album and an exhibition, we would like to present for wider audience Christian life in Finland. We are looking for images in these categories: Churches (architecture, frescos, crosses, tombs, landscape) People (ordained and lay, portrait, etc.) Reportage (Church events, pilgrimages, feasts, etc.) Entering the competition is free of charge. Due to Coronavius pandemics we encourage participants to look through their archives. If you sent your application before 31st of May you will not lose your limits. All entries must be received by September 4th, 2020. The following prizes are available in this competition: Grand Prix: 400 EURO, 1st prize in each category: 200 EURO, 2st prize ...
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