Today is Renewal Friday, the first Friday after Holy and Great Easter Sunday. Today is also the feast day of the Theotokos of the Life-giving Spring. This miracle-working spring lies outside the imperial city of Constantinople, towards the district of the Seven Towers. A very large and most beautiful church named in honor of the…

This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Archdeacon John Chryssavgis on “Creation and Sacraments.” The “How-to” Green Your Parish series is an initiative of the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. New episodes will be released weekly featuring ideas and ways to introduce creation care and sustainability in your parish and home. Ranging…

On Pascha night, a festive divine service was held at the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Beijing. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the rector of the Dormition Church, Hieromonk Innokenty (Kolesnikov). Among those present were representatives of the diplomatic corps of the Russian Embassy in the People’s Republic of…

On Thursday 23 April/ 6 May 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Great Martyr George the Trophy-bearer, in which the Church commemorates his martyrdom in Rome, in AD 303 during the reign of Diocletian. His commemoration was celebrated as per below: At the Holy Monastery dedicated to him in the Jewish Quarter…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of His Grace Bishop Nikanor of Banat, in the Cathedral church in Vrsac, on 6 May 2021, on the feast day of Holy Greatmartyr George. At the end of the Holy Liturgy, Bishop Nikanor greeted His Holiness and presented him with the…

On Bright Friday, the first Friday after Easter, the Life-Giving Spring is celebrated. The Life-Giving Spring is all at once a title given to the Mother of God, an actual miracle-working spring near Constantinople, and an Icon of the same name. The icon principally shows the miracle-working spring, located outside the Golden Gate of Constantinople,…

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia is in the pleasant position to announce that from today, the Holy Parish of Saints Raphael, Nicholas and Irene in Liverpool, Sydney, is open for the faithful as the chronic issues that have divided the Parish-Community for the last eight years have been resolved. After the intervention of His Eminence…

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May 4, 2021 On Tuesday evening, His Beatitude Patriarch John X met with the Diocesan authorities and agents of Aleppo at the Theater of the Cathedral of Elija the Prophet. At the beginning of the meeting, a short video was played, showing the churches within the diocese along with their parishes, structures, bodies and the…