Prot. No. 187/2020 October 28, 2020 The Commemoration of OXI Day Τὴν Σκέπην σου, Παρθένε, οἱ πιστοὶ μεγαλύνομεν…. (Ἀπολυτίκιον τῇ 28ῃ Ὀκτωβρίου, Τῶν Νικητηρίων) Your Protection, O Virgin, do we the faithful magnify…. (Apolytikion for October 28th, the Feast of Victory) To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns,…

St. Nicholas October 2020 Monthly Update   Dear Friends of our National Shrine, As the Archbishop noted in his remarks, in this sprint to the finish line to complete the Saint Nicholas Church and National Shrine, we are now moving to finalizing the iconographic program for the interior of the Shrine. As you will see…

St. Nicholas October 2020 Monthly Update My Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I have good news to share with you! Thanks to the efforts of the Friends of St. Nicholas, and the cooperative work of our Archdiocese’s leading expert in Byzantine Iconography, Bishop Joachim of Amissos, and the renown iconographer, Father Loukas of the…

The anniversary of “OXI Day,” the day in October of 1940 when the Greek people refused to bow to the Italian request to conquer the nation, is always a cause of celebration throughout the world where Hellenism has set root. For an Orthodox priest in faraway Uganda, OXI Day symbolizes the struggle of the weak…

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Today marks the 80th anniversary of Greece’s entry into WWII on the side of the Allies, with the national holiday in the country and by Hellenism worldwide known as OXI day — Oxi, pronounced “O-hee”, in Greek means “No”. The curt “no” in this case commemorates the answer given by Greek leader Ioannis Metaxas to…

The heroic “NO” of October 28, 1940, is flanked with pride, gratitude and responsibility. These three words which echo through our ears only to travel to our thoughts, overwhelm our very existence today. We stand with pride because 80 years ago the small and poor nation of Greece stood up to the mighty war weapons…

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Jerusalem 10/27-2020 His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem,- Chairman of the Council of Heads of Churches of the Holy Land, denounced the unfortunate sequence of events in France, which started with insults to Islam and the honorable Prophet Muhammad, and was followed by a murder crime of a teacher on the hands of…