A New Hope: The Annunciation A special one-hour presentation, “A New Hope: The Annunciation”, will be offered on Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. PST as part of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco Christian Education ministry. This will be a fast-paced visual presentation on the epic story of salvation through the icons…

Stewardship Town Hall Series Monday, March 22, 2021 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PST The Stewardship Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco invites you to join us for a Stewardship Town Hall featuring a presentation by Bill Marianes: Key Elements of a Successful Stewardship Campaign. This will include practical examples of…

The Orthodox Youth Directors in North America will hold their first Webinar for the year March 23rd, 2021 at 1pm EST. The Topic of Discernment will be presented by Father Seraphim Aldea. Register by visiting orthodoxyouth.net. Fr. Seraphim Aldea was tonsured as a monk in 2005 at Rasca monastery in Bucovine, North Moldavia. He has…

The Metropolitan of Axum, His Eminence Daniel, underlined during his Cheesefare or Forgiveness Sunday sermon, as part of the Divine Liturgy at Addis Ababa’s St. Froumentios Greek Orthodox Cathedral, that “Paradise cannot hold those who cannot forgive”. His Eminence referred to the ancient rite and the true meaning of Great Lent, which began on Clean…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week told a Russian television station that the concept of a “Covid-19 vaccination passport” would violate the principle of voluntary inoculation. His Eminence, who is also the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, said most countries in the world, including European ones, are…

The Archdiocese of Australia’s Bishop of Kyanes, His Grace Elpidios, officiated at the Vespers of Forgiveness on Cheesefare Saturday over the weekend at the St. Nektarios Cathedral in the western coast city of Perth. During his sermon, His Grace first referred to the importance of forgiveness and then explained briefly the prayer of St. Ephraim…

Embattled Montenegro President Milo Đukanović this week continued his attack on the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic republic, even after his party lost last year’s general election and the new government overturned a controversial law that threatened religious institutions’ assets and relics, especially those of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral. Days…

Pandemic-related restrictions in Greece on non-essential outdoor travel and indoor assembly are expected to continue until Sunday, which on the Orthodox ecclesiastical calendar is Orthodox Sunday, falling this year on March 21, i.e. the first Sunday after the beginning of Great Lent. The restrictions continue to affect Church-going by the faithful in the east Mediterranean…

The Church today – the second day of Great Lent before Holy Pascha (Easter) – venerates the memory Christodulus the Wonderworker of Patmos, as well as Sabine the Martyr of Egypt.