The Fifth Festival of Christian Culture began on September 9, 2020, with the veneration of the icon of the Mother of God of Kolok and a Vesper service at the courtyard of the Cathedral church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God. Following the Vesper service, His Grace Bishop Ilarion of Timok…

Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, On the fourteenth of September, we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. We remember this historic day when Saint Helen, mother of Emperor Saint Constantine the Great, located and identified the Precious and Life-giving Cross of our Lord and Savior. The cross was held aloft…

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His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia (+2008) served as a priest in the town of Jõhvi in his native Estonia from 1950 to 1957. And yesterday, September 14, the Orthodox faithful of Jõhvi rejoiced as “Alyoshenka has returned home.” The congregation of the Church of the Theophany celebrated both the 125th…

  On the Cross, as on a balance beam, we journey on a narrow path that leads heavenward. In its Universal Exaltation, we remind ourselves that it is an animate and life-giving Tree, a living Teacher of the truth of God’s love for us, and of the possibility of love for one another. Following today’s…

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  Well-known Hollywood star Mickey Rourke spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Pepi Economaki on his role in the upcoming movie “Man of God”, based on the life, works and miracles of St. Nektarios of Aegina, a 20th century saint. Rourke arrived in Greece for the production’s shooting, and appeared in the interview…

  Another chapel on the beleaguered eastern Aegean island of Lesvos has been targeted by groups of third country asylum seekers and irregular migrants, with an unknown NGO having set up a tent-shelterinside and outside the chapel of St. George. The images that have seen the light of day have caused sadness among the faithful…

  A con-celebratory wake and litany of the Holy Cincture of the Theotokos was held overnight at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, officiated by the Metropolitan of Corinth, His Eminence Dionysios, and co-officiated by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of Vatopedi, and several other hieromonks, priests and deacons.  …