The Church today venerates the memory of Nektarios the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Pentapolis, a contemporary saint of the Orthodox Church who reposed in the early part of the 20th century. This year, in fact, marks the centennial of the saint’s repose in the Lord. Yesterday, Sunday, was the feast day of the Synaxis, or…

On Sunday, October 26 / November 8, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer at the Patriarchate. On this feast the Church commemorates Saint Demetrius, who came from Thessalonica and suffered a martyr’s death in this city for the faith in Christ, during the reign of Maximian in…

The Polish Council of Bishops’ Exhortation to Their Priests and Monastics During the Pandemic On Tuesday, November 3, the Polish Council of Bishops met in Warsaw under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland. Among other matters, the hierarchs discussed the life of the Church in this extended time of…

  Yelena Popovic, writer and director of “Man of God”, the film about St. Nektarios’s life, offered Basilica News Agency an exclusive interview in which she speaks of the value of Orthodoxy and of God’s presence in her life and in the life of the film’s collaborators. The movie was made in cooperation with the…

The “1st Theological and Spiritual Dialogue with Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi, Mount Athos and the Seminarians of the Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement of the United States (OISM)“, will take place Friday NOV 13, 2020 07:30 PM Athens time (12:30pm EST). English, Romanian and Rusian interpretation available if you have installed the ZOOM app. If you are…

  By Evelyn Karatzas. On Sunday, November 8, a special commemoration paniyiri for the liberation of Lesvos was held by the Mytilenian Association of the Canberra District at St Nicholas Church in Kingston, Canberra. The name day of the Greek National Army and the Archangels Michael and Gabriel were also commemorated on the day. With…

St Nectarios Burwood today commemorated 100 years since the repose of their patron saint with a special church service officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and priests from across Sydney. Due to coronavirus restrictions, only 50 people were able to attend the service, but parishioners continued to flock to the church throughout the…

On this day in 1866, one of the bloodiest events in modern Greek history took place at the historic Monastery of Arkadi in central Crete. To mark this important liberation event, we take a look back at its history. Before the holocaust: Under Ottoman occupation, many Cretans felt they were being mismanaged and as result,…

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…