Photo: kasheloff.ru With God’s help, we have finished reading the Great Penitential Canon. I thank you all for your prayers and that, overcoming bodily infirmities and various external obstacles, you came to the house of God all these four days to read the Canon. The Lord sees your efforts and He will reward you…
James Tissot. The lost drachma. Christ is in our midst, my dear readers! “With the passions I have buried the first image of goodness, O Savior, which, Thou didst seek and find, like the lost drachma” we heard today in the Great Canon “>canon of Andrew of Crete. Each of us bears the image…
Athens, March 6, 2024 Photo: romfea.gr Metropolitan Theodoritos of Elaia, a retired hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, reposed in the Lord yesterday evening at the age of 84. He had been hospitalized recently at the NIMTS Hospital in Athens, where he breathed his last, reports Vima Orthodoxias. He served as an ordained clerics…
Florence, Arizona, March 6, 2025 Photo: Facebook A beautiful new chapel has opened at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery in Florence, Arizona. St. Anthony’s was founded in the summer of 1995 by Elder Ephraim, a spiritual child of St. Joseph the Hesychast and former abbot of the Athonite Philotheou Monastery. When inspecting the property…
Bucharest, March 5, 2025 Photo: basilica.ro His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania celebrated 35 years of episcopal service on Tuesday, March 4. The future Patriarch was consecrated as Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Timișoara at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timișoara on March 4, 1990, shortly after the fall of communism, reports the Basilica…
New York, March 5, 2025 The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has issued a directive regarding the Church-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the repose of two great Holy Hierarchs and Confessors of the 20th-century—St. Tikhon of Moscow and St. Jonah of Hankow. The Synod’s decrees from its…
We’ve entered the great and profitable arena of fasting, of Great Lent in Questions and AnswersGreat Lent is a very special time, including in the Church calendar, but not all days of Great Lent are the same. “>Great Lent, which has opened before us that we might spiritually labor and pass through this period…
Photo: pravmir.ru Christ is in our midst, my dear readers. I congratulate you with our spiritual spring! I want to wish everyone that during the Great Lent, you may truly rejoice. Rejoice that we have transformed and purified our souls, that we have not only acquired virtues but have also learned to keep them….
Photo: Pinterest Christ is in our midst, dear readers! The apostle Paul writes to his disciples in Rome, The night is far spent, the day is at hand (Rom 13:12). Night is the time of darkness, when most crimes are committed. Night is also the sinful state of the soul that does not want…
Gourmenissa, Kilkis, Greece, March 4, 2025 Photo: real.gr The Greek Orthodox faithful of Goumenissa in northern Greece celebrated the 50th anniversary of the return and re-enthronement of their beloved wonderworking and myrrh-streaming icon of Panagia Groumenissa on Sunday. The icon was stolen on March 3, 1975, which sent the townspeople into mourning. After several…
