The documentary “St. Joseph the Hesychast” focuses on the life of one of Mount Athos’ most influential contemporary ascetics. Joseph the Hesychast was canonized as a Saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2020. The dramatized documentary picked up five “Odysseus” awards at the 2020 London Greek Film Festival, including Best Video – with…

In a message occasioned by the 103rd anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, on March 27, 2021, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru stressed that the example of the forerunners who accomplished the Union in 1918 “encourages us to remain steadfast and confident, that we can last forever in one Romanian breath, despite the (hopefully…

Lansdowne Street was transformed by the Greek Community of Melbourne over the weekend. The event commemorated the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the feast day of Evagelismos with Hellenes and Philhellenes, flocking to East Melbourne to help celebrate this momentous occasion. The day started early with a church service at the…

With the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch John X, and in the presence of His Grace Bishop Theodor Al-Ghandour, a sanctification of water prayer service was performed. Then, the land lot dedicated to the construction of the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of the Annunciation was consecrated and blessed, by God’s grace and the intercession…

Sunday 28 March, saw over a thousand of people flock to Lansdowne Street in East Melbourne to help the Greek Community of Melbourne commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence. The celebrations took place in the shadows of the historic Evangelismos Church which was devastated by fire in 2016. The event’s program…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, during his sermon Sunday, emphasized that “the invitation to confession is mercy.” His Beatitude explained that when we lead an individual to the Church, the house of God, we perform a good deed, by facilitating the latter’s spiritual healing. “Through the forgiveness of sins; through a therapy…

The annual memorial service for the reposed great benefactors, donors and patrons of the ethnic Greek community of Cairo and the philoptochos fund was held on Sunday at the Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the Egyptian capital. The Metropolitan of Memphis and Patriarchal vicar of Cairo, His Eminence Nikodimos, officiated at the…

The inaugural online archontariki with the Elder Archimandrite Gabriel, the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. David, in northwestern Evia island, will be hosted by the online Orthodox platform Pemptousia on Tuesday, at 19.30 Athens times. Archontariki in Greek is a monastery’s guesthouse. To participate please fill out an electronic application on the pages…

The Metropolitan of Larissa and Tyrnavos, His Eminence Ieronymos, on Sunday officiated at a memorial service at the Kileler monument for the fallen, on the 111th anniversary of a sharecroppers’ uprising in the Thessaly province in 1910.