On Sunday, March 7th, 2021, the folk ensemble Drina of Saint John the Baptist parish in Paterson, New Jersey celebrated their Feast Day – Slava of Saint George of Kratovo. The Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was officiated by His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America. His Grace was joined in concelebration by the Very Rev. Protopresbyter…

At its session on February 25, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided to begin the canonization process of a dozen confessors and missionaries who suffered under Communism, to mark the 140th anniversary of autocephaly and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Patriarchate in 2025. Yesterday, March 9, when Romania commemorates…

“For Orthodox Christians in our complex, difficult times, full of spiritual disappointments, temptations and limitations of all kinds, Lent is of great spiritual importance,” His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Poland begins his Lenten epistle. Lent is a time for increased prayer and the struggle for purification, which give us renewed strength to struggle with the…

+ Bartholomew “By God’s mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch to the plenitude of the Church, May the grace and peace of our Lord and savior jesus christ, together with our prayer, blessing and forgiveness be with you all” Most honorable brothers and blessed children in the Lord, With the good-will and grace…

A new Pan-Orthodox film, The Face of God: The Orthodox Church on Climate Change, has been released by the Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration. The film captures the beauty of creation as a living icon of God, derived from a quote of St. John of Damascus, “The whole world is a living icon of the…

Another spate of vandalism and looting of Serbian Orthodox churches and cemeteries were reported this month in the Kosovo and Metohija province, where a Kosovar Albanian majority controls the area. Specifically, the church of the Holy Trinity in the town of Parteš, in the Gjilan District, was the latest target, with unknown perpetrators taking money…

The volume “Sts. Parthenios and Eumenios and the Holy Monastery of Koudouma” has recently been re-printed in an improved edition by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The author of the edition is the Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne Chrysostomos Papadakis. An order form is available HERE.    

The online platform Pemptousia will host the first online Archontariki with the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, His Eminence Kosmas, on Thursday, beginning at 19.30 Athens time. Archontariki in Greek means a monastery’s guest house.     On Wednesday, the online Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy…

A one-day seminar took place in Moscow this week, entitled “Christianity and Politics: Secularism and Reference to God in the Constitution”. A reference to God is a singular event for contemporary Russian legislation, the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoida, said during his opening address.