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On 2 September, 1953, the relics of Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis were disentombed in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity which he had founded and built on the island of Aegina. The next day a festal liturgy was celebrated, at the end of which the relics were carried in procession. While this was happening, the relics exuded a most powerful fragrance which affected everyone in the monastery, as well as the residents of the surrounding area. At that time, the local bus was making its way up and when it reached the Holy Apostles bridge, one of the passengers, a woman of loose morals, became aware of the strong fragrance of the relics, as she herself told us later. The other passengers ...

Don’t judge and condemn anyone, or you’ll be condemned yourself. Don’t investigate extraneous thoughts and issues, scandals and gossip. Just let them go. The devil, our enemy, tries to sow them within you in order to distract you. (Saint Seraphim Romantsov of the Monastery of Glinsk)

Coercion isn’t conducive to stability, as can easily be seen if you try to hold back streams of water or restrict plants by force. But what we accept of our own free will is more stable and sure. The former belongs to the violator, whereas the second belongs to us. One is a characteristic of God’s goodness, the other is a sign of tyrranical power. (Saint Gregory the Theologian)

The documentary «St. Joseph the Hesychast» focuses on the life of one of Mount Athos’ most influential contemporary ascetics. Joseph...

On the occasion of another great success of tennis player Novak Djokovic, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch sent a greeting...

In anticipation of the feast of the Meeting of the Lord our monastery in Escondido, just north of San Diego,...

  “I pondered for a long time whether or not I should talk about Veronica. Why? Because it’s by far...

The generation of Romanians who emigrated overseas after 1990 “is the generation of Romanians who want to keep their Romanian...

II THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PREDICAMENTS OF THE MODERN WORLD 1. The basic principles of the Enlightenment in various spheres of culture. True to its historical beginnings, which we have already mentioned, the Enlightenment was motivated along the following lines: a) The absolute supremacy of human reason. Anything that did not conform to human logic was suspected of being prejudice and superstition. Miracles, belief in the supernatural, the supramundane, were all subject to questioning. Those who wished to believe in some religion, such as Christians for example, had to find a way of reconciling their faith with human reason, to find logical explanations regarding the existence of God, the soul and so on. So Christian theology embarked on an enormous effort to convince people ...

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  The 10th edition of the book “Charismatic Subordinate”, published by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, is now available....

The Archdiocese of Australia’s Bishop Kyaneon, His Grace Elpidios, conducted the blessing on Monday at the University of New South...

The Moscow Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week underlined that the Russian Orthodox Church has no plans...

The Metropolitan of Stara Zagora, His Eminence Kiprian, on Monday met with Bulgarian education and sciences minister Krasimir Valtsev, with...

Greece’s Parliament president, Costas Tassoulas, on Monday opened a plenary session of the legislature with an honorary reference to the...

The Church today venerates the memory of Polycarp, the Holy Martyr and Bishop of Smyrna. This apostolic and prophetic man...

The Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the Midwest’s only monastery was recently revived after several years of lying dormant....

On Sunday, 14th of February, the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide held its first event celebrating the 200 year anniversary of...

Righteous Symeon, while holding the Infant Christ, concluded his praise to God with a prophecy:  “my eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles” (Luke 2:30-32). Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Symeon prophesied, as Isaiah once did (see Isaiah 49:6), that Jesus Christ is the light and Savior of the whole world.  It is this light that will shine on all the pagan nations, freeing them from the darkness of ignorance of the true God. What is most notable, is how the Elder Symeon speaks these prophetic words without the exclusivity and fanaticism of his Jewish contemporaries. Their view of the Messiah is a narrow one, ...

  Your Eminences and Graces Brothers hierarchs, High Venerable Archimandrites, High venerable abbesses, Venerable fathers, monks and nuns, Very Reverend...