SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2020 Sundays of Advent: Planting the Seeds for the New Covenant Fr. Michael Massouh ​Published in the 2020 November/December edition of The Word Unlike Great Lent, the Advent Season stands without additional weekday services or Sunday remembrances that would help us keep the fast for the forty days and help prepare us…

On the occasion of the great jubilee – 950 years of the monastery of the Venerable Prohor of Pcinja in the Diocese of Vranje – an international monastic symposium entitled “950 years of the Venerable Prohor Pčinjski” was held on October 30 and 31, 2020. Several metropolitans, bishops, abbots and abbesses from ten countries (Russia,…

Individuals and business are encouraged to donate food items Greek Australian households in financial need will receive a Christmas Hamper in a joint effort between the Greek Orthodox Parishes and the Greek Welfare Centre. For the past twenty three years the Greek Welfare Centre has taken the leading role in organising and coordinating an Easter…

Police on Sunday said they were looking for information on the theft of a copper plaque from the tombstone of former President Tassos Papadopoulos. The plaque, depicting Papadopoulos, was reported stolen on Sunday morning, along with two copper crosses from other graves from the old cemetery of Deftera village, in the Nicosia district. The plaque’s…

On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the feast day of St Hilarion, Schema-monk of Kievo-Pechersk, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady “of the Sign” in New York. He was joined by His…

Between October 31 and November 1, 2020 His Eminence Archbishop and Metropolitan Nicolae of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States of America and Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas visited the Holy Trinity Parish of Philadelphia, PA. The program of the visit first included the Vespers Service, on Saturday evening,…

On Friday, November 6, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited The Cathedral School in Manhattan this morning and met with Students and Faculty. His Eminence was warmly received by Students and he expressed his love and confidence in the strong future of the school, which is a part of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of…

Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangels Prot. No. 206/2020 November 8, 2020 ‘Ορᾶτε μὴ καταφρονήσητε ἑνὸς τῶν μικρῶν τούτων· λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι οἱ ἄγγελοι αὐτῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς διὰ παντὸςβλέπουσι τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς. (κατά Ματθαίον 18:10) Take care that you do not look down on any of these little ones, for I tell you that their Heavenly Angels forever behold the face of My Father Who is in Heaven. (Matthew 18:10) To the Most…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed condolences over the killing of believers of the Ethiopian Church in the Vallega region of Oromia state.  His Holiness Abune Mathias Patriarch-Catholicos of Ethiopia  Your Holiness, beloved Brother in Christ, With profound sorrow I have taken the news about extremists’ armed attack and murder…