As with many organizations, COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and its parishes. The financial consequences to certain of our parishes have been particularly significant, causing a decline in revenues from the Total Commitment program which, in turn, reduces the operating funds of the Archdiocese. Unfortunately, the…
Holy Resurrection Greek Orthodox Church Brookville, New York My Beloved Christians, We come together this morning – in this Church of the Resurrection, of the One Risen from the dead, to raise our hopes, to raise our cries unto heaven, and to raise our spirits in these dark days for our Church, our…
In light of the increasing number of outbreaks of Covid-19 cases in metropolitan Melbourne and all of Victoria, I urge all Greeks, but also our fellow people more broadly, not to become disillusioned, not to lose courage and hope in God, and primarily not to stop praying. When a person prays, they find themselves…
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The Metropolitan of Mani, His Eminence Chrysostomos III, on the occasion of the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council, officiated at a con-celebratory service at the historic Cathedral of the Archangels, in the extreme southern Greece harbor town of Areopolis – the same church were many of the Greek War…
The first part of the inaugural online assembly from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and members of the Romanian Christian Students Association, which took place on Thursday, July 2, has been posted on the pages of the Internet magazine Pemptousia.
The Church today venerates the memory of the Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah). A renowned prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, Elijah defended the worship of the Hebrew God over that of a Canaanite idol. According to the Old Testament, God also…
The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral has accepted an invitation by the small Adriatic country’s prime minister, Dusko Markovic, to send representatives for a dialogue regarding a controversial law passed earlier in the year – which the Orthodox Church says threatens its assets and relics and belittles its dignity as the pre-eminent faith…
Monday, July 20, marked the dour 46-year anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This year observance of the tragic anniversary comes amid heightened tension and provocations by Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, while the one-third of the island republic still occupied by Turkish forces has witnessed ethnic cleansing and the…