Ξένες γλώσσες

It can be readily understood that, when we get to know a person and our hearts combine, we are enthused at this and overjoyed. It’s the practical implementation of our reason for being, which consists in the image with which God has endowed us. This means that we can unite among ourselves in the same manner as the Triune God, Who is a communion of Persons, which is why ‘He is love’. On the other hand, when hearts grow cold and there’s no communication, we experience sadness and there’s no enthusiasm. And yet there is another phenomenon which is far from unusual: no matter how taken we are with another person, a close relationship them, including a great deal of communication ...

The dismissal hymn for the feast of the Holy Forefathers, says: ‘You justified the forefathers in faith, and through them betrothed Yourself, in advance, to the Church taken from out of the Gentiles’. These words, if you look at them carefully, are full of profound meaning. The Forefathers were justified, as being the foundation of the Church and as making manifest the cause of the relationship between God and us. Who were the forefathers of God? Pagans, of course. Everybody was pagan then. After the fall, people lost their way and followed their own path. From these, God chose a few and called upon them to believe in Him and to follow Him. And they were convinced. Through faith they ...

In January of this year and with blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Basilios Kodseie of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of...

His Eminence Metropolitan Basilios of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines attended this week to...

On Friday, December 13, 2019 a group of students from the Hellenic Academy of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church...

On the evening of December 12, 2019 His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios welcomed the members of Metropolis of Boston Youth Dance...

On the evening of December 11, 2019 His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios presided over the Hierarchal Great Vespers at the Cathedral...

You give what God’s given you. If God wants, He will take it all away from you in a couple of minutes. What God’s given to you, in His providence, you pass it on. It’s not yours; God gave it to you; and you won’t take it with you. You’re managing it, you can’t have it with you in eternity. So make sure you make good investments. » Bishop Athanasios of Limassol

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, hosted a reception for principals of elementary and secondary schools in the territory of the...

Byzantine Chant is not just another form of music. It is a tool on which we can pray better. It...

The Elder (Saint Ieronymos Simonopetritis) related a story of something that happened to him at that time (about 1928, when he was still Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras): When I was in Thessaloniki the father of one of my spiritual children was moved by action of the devil and took it badly that his son wanted the follow the path of God. The man considered that I was responsible and decided to kill me. As I was going down a sloping street, I was warned not to continue, because I would be killed. But I said: ‘If that’s God’s will, so be it’. And, indeed, I saw the man who had threatened me aiming and shouting at me. I stopped ...

  Members of the US Senate on Thursday unanimously voted to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 by Ottoman empire...

  The Feast Day of St. Spyridonas was celebrated on Thursday throughout the island republic of Cyprus, the saint’s birthplace,...

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, was proclaimed as an honorary citizen of Bucharest this week, during...

  The Civil Governor of Mt. Athos, Athanasios Martinos, has pledged to finance the complete renovation of the Theological School...

The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Lavra, in the northwest Peloponnese, Archimandrite Eusevios Spanos, provides an exclusive interview...

  On 13th December 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met...

‘I came that they might have life and have it abundantly’. Saint Gregory Palamas interprets ‘abundant life’ as the life of sanctity, our adoption by God through Grace. Those who keep God’s commandments live the virtuous life in accordance with His commandments. They receive Divine Grace from Him and this becomes their inalienable possession. They acquire the divine predicates: love, wisdom, the uncreated light, ontological autonomy, and immortality. All of this is nothing other than a life of sanctity. » Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi

If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge,...