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We are pleased to announce our next myOCN Community Online Gathering this coming Thursday, May 28th, at 7:00 pm EST with special guests Fr. Costa and Presbytera Pauline Pavlakos both diagnosed with, and hospitalized for COVID-19, within a few days of each other. We will talk about their recent struggle with this deadly virus and how faith…

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The fourth Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will be held on Saturday, May 30. The participation by online viewers from around the world for the previous three such sessions has been impressive. Those interested in viewing the upcoming Archontariki should register on…

A member of the Turkish national assembly, Garo Paylan, who is one of the few lawmakers in Turkey of an Armenian origin, this week brought to light the continuing desecration of a Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hasera, known today as Yesildere, in what for centuries was the Argyroupolis district of Pontos, the…

The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain this week announced that it will establish a youth office, one of the priorities cited by His Eminence, Archbishop Nikitas, immediately after his enthronement last year. Alexios Floridis, who was picked as the coordinator of this new office, spoke to the Orthodoxia newsw agency about the great challenges…

The Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, in an encyclical, announced that holy services and the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated with the presence of worshipers as of June 6, as coronavirus restrictions continue to be lifted across Europe. June 6 on the Orthodox calendar for 2020 is the Saturday of Souls, before…

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, on the Sunday of the Blind Man officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the monastery of St. Gerasimus of Jordan – also known as Abba Gerasimus – in the West Bank, north of the Dead Sea.

The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlassios, His Eminence Ierotheos, has issued a 42-page text entitled “The Orthodox Church’s Testimonial on Holy Communion”. In his text, Ierotheos presents a detailed chronicle of ecclesiastical sources regarding the Holy Communion, also known as the Holy Eucharist. As he notes in the preface, the text is divided into…