If we don’t want it and don’t pursue it, grace won’t begin to act in us. God doesn’t want to intrude on the freedom He’s given us. Otherwise everyone would become a saint from one moment to the next, at God’s command.
As You are merciful, Christ, I beg you,through true fasting and repentance give life to me whose soul is slain by the fruit of our transgression. Grant that I may ever walk in the straight and pleasant paths of Your holy commandments and Your divine glory, and may be able to praise Your goodness in all things, Jesus, together with those who desire You. (Kathisma, Matins)
On Monday, March 9, 2020, following the service of Great Compline in the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand, His...
Prime Minister Edi Rama has held a meeting with senior representatives of the Albanian clergy, urging them to try to...
When we have a serious illness, it does not mean that this is a revelation from God that we will...
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The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week attended an event focusing on the missionary work conducted by Orthodox...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said his government will place anyone arriving from overseas into quarantine –...
As the Orthodoxia news agency first reported a day earlier, members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of...
To the priests, deacons, monastics and laity, the beloved children of the Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, Grace, mercy, and...
JONATHAN JACKSON | 10 MARCH 2020 I would like to briefly express what the Orthodox Church means to me,...
Sloth, stubbornness or any other passion is followed by commensurate punishment. When my internal disposition is out of sorts with God, with His sanctity, I feel the punishment within me, in my heart, like a burning fire.
NEW YORK – On March 8, 2020, eleven Orthodox hierarchs from various canonical jurisdictions concelebrated the Divine Liturgy on the...
When we commemorate the saints for the first Sunday in Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy (when we read the Synaxari), we see: on that day, the first Sunday of the Fast, we commemorate the memory of the restoration of the holy and venerable icons, effected by the Emperors of Constantinople, Michael and his mother Theodora, of blessed memory, in the reign of Saint Methodios the Confessor, Patriarch’. In other words, we celebrate the adoption of the feast of Orthodoxy, which was established triumphantly by the Synod of Hierarchs residing in Constantinople on 11 March 843. In establishing this feast, the Synod applied the resolutions of the 7th Ecumenical Synod. But the hymns for the feast don’t refer exclusively to the ...
The «Delphi» chapter of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) this week honored Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros,...
‘The pure and undefiled fast has now come upon us and brings us to the celebration of the martyr’s miracles. Through the fast our souls are cleansed from filth and defilement and through the martyr’s miracles and feats we are emboldened to fight bravely against the passions. Illumined, therefore, by the grace of holy abstinence and by the wondrous works of the martyr Theodore, we are fortified by our faith in Christ and beseech Him to award salvation to our souls.’ (Matins Aposticha)
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Thousands of people again held peaceful protests in cities around Montenegro to show their opposition to a controversial law that...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Most Reverend Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of...
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Sunday referred to what he called a «powerful distortion»...
