Paschal Greetings of His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East- Pascha 2020 Beloved one, I here...
Synodal, state, and municipal guidelines to local believers about restrictions of church services during past Lent did not imply closure of Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Christian sacred spaces, because hospitals, pharmacies, and shops would not stop working and people were allowed to buy food, medicines, and to get emergent healthcare. Bulgarian Orthodox Church naturally insists on enjoying of public rights of limited and strictly controlled presence in churches, including those opening only several times in the year, and remaining aware that some temples are still closed from communist times, or even abandoned later. Meanwhile contemporary social consolidation resulted in charity and volunteering in health and social care, and church also offered spiritual support as pastoral care, and became transmitting online more ...
Nobody can say exactly when and how tears come. They well up suddenly. Of course, you shouldn’t weep so that people will see you. Profound repentance is tears unseen. You suddenly feel such a sinner and immediately the tears start from your eyes. » Elder Arsenie Boca (of Romania)
Christ is Risen! His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, together with the entire plenitude of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, mourns...
The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the All Saints, in Munich, Germany, was decorated with a subject of hagiography that...
Easter Monday, April 7/20, 2020, was celebrated as the Feast of Easter, according to the tradition at the Patriarchal and...
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Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! Today is Renewal Monday or Bright Monday, the day after Holy and Great Easter Sunday,...
For the hundreds of millions of Orthodox faithful around the world, this year’s Holy and Great Easter was unprecedented due...
The Easter Sunday Vespers, the Service of Agape, was conducted at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount...
The first online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery...
If you comply with the words of God and have no regrets in your conscience, and if you’re calm and perform good works, then you’ll gradually feel your way into prayer, smoothly, until grace comes. » Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
We should realize that, as long as we’re in sin, that is, transgressing against Christ’s divine commandments, we can be as pious as we like, read all the prayers of the saints, the various hymns and the canons all day every day, it will get us nowhere. Since the Lord Himself said, as a reproof and complaint: ‘Why do you call me “Lord, Lord” but not do as I say?’ In other words: ‘As long as you live in breach of my commandments, there’s no point in directing lots of long prayers towards me’. Only one prayer is pleasing to Him: that is the practical prayer which consists in abandoning, with all our soul and forever, every breach of His holy commandments ...
The time of the descent. As regards the time of the descent, we can see that Christ’s divine soul descended into Hades immediately after His exclamation on the Cross ‘It is finished’, when His soul was separated from His all-pure body. He remained there three days, until the Resurrection, a period during which His body lay without breath or decay in the tomb. This was from the evening of Friday to the morning of Sunday (See Matth., 12, 40; Acts 2, 31 and 13, 37; Ps. 15, 10; Luke 23, 43; John 20, 17; I Peter, 3, 19 etc.). This is why the Orthodox Church declared that the descent was to be celebrated on Great Saturday. The synaxari for the day ...
His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia has issued his Paschal Message. Read the full text down below: MAKARIOS by...
The Holy Flame was again transported to Greece this week, even amid strict restrictions due to the coronavirus, arriving at...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Divine Liturgy of the First Resurrection The Vespers of Holy and Great Saturday April...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Royal Hours and Vespers of the Descent from the Cross Holy and Great Friday...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has issued his Encyclical on the Great and Holy Pascha. Read the full text...
EASTER 2020 We encourage you to join the Easter Hope appeal: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/icohs As mentioned by His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem...
