On Wednesday, January 6th, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America celebrated the Hierarchical Vesperal Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Conception of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, New Jersey. Concelebrating with the Bishop were Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic, Presbyter Lavrentije Soper and Protodeacon Milos Zdralic. That evening, the Eve of the…

The faithful people and the public on general were in the previous festal days, otherwise tormented by the epidemic and the suffering of people and their property by the earthquake in the Banija region, additionally confused by some statements of Bishop Grogorije of Dusseldorf and Germany, which are exclusively of a political, even of a…

  The Liturgical Guide Book published by the National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians identifies the hymns that are sung, especially noting changes, in the Divine Liturgy on Sunday and other select feasts for the ecclesiastical year. It also includes a bibliography of liturgical music, recordings, and other music resources. This resource is very…

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The fifth online synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with children and young people, has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. 21, at 19:30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. Those wishing to participate may fill out a special form found on…

Tuesday, January 12, will mark the dour 50-year anniversary of the closure of the Halki School of Theology by Turkish authorities. The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s pre-eminent seminary was closed on the basis of a controversial and reactionary law handed down by the Turkish constitutional, which banned private tertiary education in the country. The legal decision was…

Primary school and kindergarten pupils returned to classrooms in Greece on Monday, after two months away due to a pandemic-related lockdown in the country. Secondary school pupils and tertiary level students will continue to rely on remote learning via the Internet.

Noted Orthodox hymnologist and Master Head Chanter Charilaos Taliadoros passed away on Monday, following a lengthy hospitalization in the northern city of Thessaloniki for acute symptoms of the Covid-19 virus.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, during his sermon on Sunday, on the after-feast of the Theophany, of Epiphany, described repentance as a way of life, as a “baptism in tears,” as he characteristically said. The Romanian Patriarch quoted the Gospel, extolling the faithful, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”