The attribute of true repentance is profound awareness, contrition, and sorrow in the heart which mourns not because it will go to hell but because it has saddened and angered through sin such a kindly and affectionate God and Father. It’s sighing, compunction, prayers, fasts, vigils, and tears. This repentance is genuine, true and beneficial.
Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said?...
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Eparchial Synod issue Guidelines on Covid-19 (Coronavirus) March 6, 2020 To the Right Reverend Hierarchs,...
‘Fasting in the body, let us also fast in the spirit, loosing the bonds of injustice. Let us abandon agreements made under duress. Let us break all unjust commitments. Let us give bread to the hungry. Let us welcome the homeless poor into our houses, so that we may gain great mercy from Christ our God.’ (Vespers, stikhiro)
Repent before death closes the door of your life and opens the door of the Judgment. Repent before death, and, because you don’t know the time of your death, repent today, this instant and don’t repeat your sin. In one of his prayers, Saint Efraim the Syrian says: Before the wheel of time stops turning in my life, have mercy upon me. Before the wind of death blows and sickness, death’s herald, makes its appearance in my body, have mercy upon me. Before the majestic sun in the heavens becomes darkness for me, have mercy upon me; and may Your light shine on me from above and drive out the gloomy darkness from my mind. Before the earth returns to the earth and decays, before ...
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More violence erupted at a border post on the Greek-Turkish frontier on Friday morning, as television footage showed Turkish border...
The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, on Friday visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, where he was received by...
Archimandrite Gervasios Raptopoulos reposed in the Lord on Friday morning. Born in 1931 in Grevena prefecture of northern Greece, the...
A health ministry spokesman in Athens, epidemiologist Sotiris Tsiodras, advised people in at-risk health groups to avoid venues or events...
The annual Greek Independence Day parade will take place on March 29 this year through the streets of Manhattan. According...
Academy Award-winning star Tom Hanks and his wife, Hollywood producer Rita Wilson, recently unveiled a one-minute video calling on viewers...
The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, on March 3, 2020 visited the under-reconstruction Cathedral of St. Sava in New...
Believers have always been exposed to diseases and epidemics throughout the ages. What does the Church do about it? The...
To the faithful and beloved children of this God-preserved Diocese! As we enter now fully into this lenten period leading...
Metropolitan Vladimir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in St. Theodore of Tyre Monastery (Ciuflea) in Chisinau on the Cheesefare Sunday. Concelebrating...
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has released its Encyclical for the Sunday of...
During their February 27th meeting, the Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops USA (ACOB) appointed Metropolitan Tikhon...
At the instruction of the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the...
The word of truth is a difficult prey because it easily escapes those who aren’t paying attention, because the Spirit ordained that it should be short and swift. This is so that much can be expressed briefly and it can be easily retained in the memory. In any case, the natural virtue of the word is neither to conceal meaning in opaqueness nor to embellish it with superfluous words and things of no gravitas.
