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.  …

Primary and secondary schools opened throughout Greece on Monday, with the customary blessing ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year. Pupils and educators are required to wear masks while in classes, while school premises will be repeatedly disinfected. Each pupil was handed two masks and a a new canteen for drinking water or beverages, as…

  The Church today commemorates the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. It was St. Helen, the mother of St. Constantine the Great, who undertook, even while in advanced age, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem to search for the cross, in roughly the year 325. The venerable Helen had a pagan temple…

  His Grace Andrej, Bishop of Austria-Switzerland, presided over the Vigil Service on the eve of the feast of the Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Pakrac on September 12, 2020. In the prayerful presence of the faithful of the Pakrac parish, clergy and monks, as well as…

On Sunday, August 31/13 September 2020, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of Serbian Saints and the Memorial of the Martyrs of Jasenovac, in the Monastery of the Birth of St. John the Baptist, in Jasenovac, in the Diocese of Slavonia, the Serbian church dedicated to the Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac was consecrated….