The 3rd Sunday of Great Lent, March 9/22, 2020 was celebrated by the Patriarchate as Sunday of the Adoration of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Guided by the Holy Spirit, the Church has designated for this Sunday the veneration of the Holy Cross with a special service, so…

On Friday, March, 7/20, 2020, the Three Major Communities with the pilgrimage responsibility for the All-holy Shrines, namely the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Custody of the Holy Land of the Franciscans, and the Patriarchate of the Armenians in Jerusalem, released a Statement, specifying to the faithful Christians that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,…

The Mother of God was the purest being created as all the holy fathers confess together. Her basic virtue was and is virginity, the gift of shyness – the full purity of her entire existence, not only from the bodily but also from spiritual (mental) point of view. The Mother of God did not even…

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On the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, Athonite Monasteries held litanies and vigils in supplication to the Virgin Mary for an end to the pandemic and for Her consolation to a sorely tested humanity. The Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross was commemorated today with millennia-old Athonite tradition at the Holy and…

  The pages of the Orthodoxia news agency today host a video feature on the Holy Monastery of the Theotokos of Tartani, in the mountainous central Greece prefecture of Evritania. The monastery was rebuilt after being destroyed in a 1963 rock slide.

As the coming weeks will be crucial for reducing exposure to the coronavirus, we ask you to follow the directions of state officials and public healthcare authorities. With the help of God, and with prayer, this crisis will soon end. Also, please do not forget the people who live by themselves and may need assistance,…

  The Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, on Sunday emphasized that “… in agreeable times it is easy to be good, heroes though are born through trial”. His Eminence spoke after the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross service, referring to the coronavirus outbreak and the difficult times…

  he Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, prayed in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for an end to the pandemic, following a litany during the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross.