We may not be able to leave our homes and we cannot go to our local churches, but we can...
Despair! A terrible word, a word that denotes catastrophe, and a concatenation of all woes. There’s nothing worse than despair. When people are in despair, they never run and try to find a cure. They leave the passion untreated, they allow it to become infected, to eat away at their hearts and to corrode their soul.
The fifth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to Saint Mary the Egyptian. This Mary is a unique and eternal example of repentance and of rehabilitation and perfection in Christ. As we enter the final straight towards the Spotless Passion, and the Life-Bearing Resurrection of Our Lord, the need for proper preparation through repentance, so that we can experience in a redemptive manner the Cross and Resurrection, becomes ever more urgent and imperative. This is why, on this Sunday, the Church highlights the figure and example of Saint Mary, in order to provide the help we need. So who was this Mary that the Orthodox Church has found to be of such great importance that we celebrate her memory twice, on the ...
a) These days, there are many theologians, clergymen and lay people who compose and publish texts. Some, however, who aren’t aware of the gravity of what they’re writing, follow the secular practice of competitive journalism. With smugness and pride, they count the number of hits their sites have received, turning theological discourse into commercial news. Not infrequently, they debase the divine word. b) Acrimony, hostility, insinuation, ill will, abuse of those who disagree, unfounded allegations and generalities are used without let or hindrance, and these people often ‘bite and devour one another’ (Gal. 5, 15). And we never fear that, perhaps, as we’re tearing our flesh and expending our theological powers, we may be outside the Patristic tradition which we invoke ...
First of all, we must understand that the idea of patron saints or protectors is not fixed or predetermined. Over...
The tragic death over the weekend of a 12-year-old girl from the coronavirus near Ghent has generated intense concern on...
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During this difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic, His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios has been assuring the Clergy and Faithful of...
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The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago announced today the creation of a COVID-19 Parish Relief Fund to support parishes under significant financial...
Greek government spokesperson comments on the Church of Greece’s decision for ‘closed-door’ services
We are entering the most crucial phase in the battle against the coronavirus, said government spokesperson Stelios Petsas at a...
The Russian Orthodox Youth Committee this week announced that the organization remains fully active in providing support and assistance to...
The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week emphasized that the Church’s doors cannot close,...
The Archdiocese of Great Britain and Thyateira continued its outreach program, providing both material assistance and psychological support to those...
Greek shipping and island policy minister, Yannis Plakiotakis, on Thursday spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency via Skype. Among others,...
The Archdiocese of Athens has announced that all of its charitable institutions and social structures will continue to cooperate with...
ANNOUNCEMENT Wellington 1st of April 2020 To the Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods and the reverent plentitude of the...
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania shares his perspective in this E-interview about the way churches are adapting, both in Albania and worldwide, to the COVID-19 pandemic. As we pray for the researchers trying to find a treatment, churches can also emphasize our duty to stay at home while, at the same time, freeing ourselves from fear and anxiety. We must find ways to assist the sick directly or indirectly, as we prepare for Easter, and open our hearts to the light of hope. In what ways is Your Beatitude seeing churches adapt to life amid the coronavirus outbreak? In Albania, and worldwide. Archbishop Anastasios: When we were informed about the spread of the pandemic of COVID-19 in Albania, we addressed our people (on 12 ...
Our starting point’s always wrong. Instead of starting from ourselves, we always want to change other people first and then ourselves. If only each of us would begin from our self, peace would prevail.
Apart from its usual dedication to the Menaion (the commemoration of the lives of the Saints) and the early custom...
