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‘When he heard that John had been delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee’. Christ’s behavior towards people wasn’t monolithic. He reacted in a variety of ways. In any case, He became incarnate, was made manifest to people and revealed His wisdom with the aim of ‘presenting His life as a model to be imitated’, as Saint Gregory Palamas puts it. The way He acted depended on the particular case. He didn’t behave diplomatically or out of self-interest but always with a view to the salvation of the person concerned. At times He spoke humbly about His person; at other times He revealed His divinity. Sometimes He went to Jerusalem and spoke openly about very serious matters and sometimes He left and hid ...

“I know that our people live in hardship, the life is full of troubles and pain, but I believe that...

The 20-year-old Greek sailor who was kidnapped by pirates in Togo for 40 days, Dimitris Giatis stated in a tv...

With great sadness, the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada became aware of the recent tragic event of the UIA 752...

Melbourne’s Greek Orthodox bishop has condemned the actions of three men who broke the rules to grab the coveted wooden...

The honorary Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Filaret, has recalled his signature under a resolution by the Kyiv...

Temples are a good place for personal acquaintances, which can later turn into love,” chairman of the Synodal Department for...

“Calmness is the state when the Holy Spirit comes upon a person. Peacefulness is necessary for us,” Catholicos-Patriarch of All...

Orthodoxy is alive and well in a distant African township The churchgoers’ response to Fr George Glafcoss is immediate and...

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia sends his heartfelt gratitude to everyone for their...

Pride’s a wide-open window, through which all the virtues and good works get blown away. Nothing makes us so empty towards other people and so worthless towards God as pride does.

Karyes has been the seat of the self-governing body of Mount Athos and the seat of the ‘protos’ since the...

Epistle Reading Eph. 4, 7-13: “The Humility of Christ” Today is the first Sunday after the great feast of Theophany. As with all the feasts of the Lord, the Church acclaims the event of God’s Epiphany through its sublime hymns. The Nativity, the Baptism, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection manifest to us the mystery of salvation and the Kingdom of God. With His incarnation, Christ reveals His love, God’s plan for the salvation of humankind and also His humility. In today’s reading, Saint Paul reveals to us the depth of the humility of Christ, Who descended to the lowest depths of Hell and was raised “above the heavens, that he might fill all things” (Eph. 4, 10). Christ’s descent into Hell indicates ...

On the occasion of the Patron Saint-day and the Day of the Republica Srpska, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, officiated...

The Hong Kong publisher “The China Orthodox Press” has published a Chinese translation of the service for the Nativity of...

Two days after Christmas, on Thursday December 27, 2019/January 9, 2020, the Feast of the Synaxis of Theotokos was celebrated...

Greece will be giving a grant of two millions euros every year to Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology...

On Thursday, December 27, 2019/January 9, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen at...

Five of the oldest Bulgarian monasteries, that have been declared monuments of culture – Bachkovski, Troyanski, Kremikovski, Kilifarevski and Plakovski, are expected...

With the Lord’s feast of Holy Epiphany-Theophany, another beautiful and incomparable liturgical cycle of the year has been completed. The conclusion of the holy twelve days is sealed with the ‘Lights and Effulgence’, as the writer Alexandros Papadiamantis put it. After the experience of the ineffable mysteries of the cave in Bethlehem, everything is lit up, everything is sanctified; the springs, the rivers, the whole of creation because of the Baptism of Christ, the God and Human. Indeed, ‘every tongue fails’ and ‘the mind reels’ in every believer at the sight of the King of Glory coming to be baptized. The River Jordan rejoices and is glad at encountering and welcoming into its water its own Creator. Jesus Christ, the source ...