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15.03.2020 | 12:33
His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco issues statement on the COVID-19 Pandemic
His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco has released a statement on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Read the full text below: Beloved Faithful of the Metropolis of San Francisco, Christ, Who is the source of our Life, our Hope and our Consolation, has never abandoned His Church. Persecutions, theological upheavals, wars, and times of illnesses…
15.03.2020 | 11:56
Russian Orthodox Church denies coronavirus impact on Patriarch Kirill’s foreign travel schedule
The Russian Orthodox Church has denied rumors that the coronavirus epidemic abroad has led to changes in Patriarch Kirill’s plans for this year. “At the moment, there are no changes in the travel schedule of His Holiness the Patriarch,” church spokesperson Vladimir Legoyda told Interfax on Friday. Yesterday, social media websites said the Russian church…
15.03.2020 | 10:24
Pan-Orthodox Vespers in Montreal, Canada
Orthodox faithful from across the Greater Montreal area participated at this year’s Pan-Orthodox Vespers on the occasion of the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. The Vespers service was held at the Archangels Greek Orthodox Church and was presided by His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios of Canada (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople). Twenty Orthodox clergymen from many…
15.03.2020 | 10:02
His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios of Canada issues his Encyclical about the coronavirus outbreak
His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios of Canada has issued his Encyclical about the coronavirus outbreak. Read the full text below: Reverend Fathers, Honourable Presidents and Esteemed Members of the Boards of Directors, Members of the Philoptochos Societies, Teachers, Students and Youth Members of the Communities, and to the Entire Plenitude of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese…
14.03.2020 | 16:11
Announcement from the Churches of Jerusalem regarding virus COVID-19
On Monday, February 25/March 9, 2020, the Three Major Communities related to religious matters, the Rum-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Custody of the Holy Land of the Franciscans and the Patriarchate of the Armenians in Jerusalem, published an Announcement, urging people to conform to the precautions and instructions of the Governmental Authorities’ decisions, regarding the…
14.03.2020 | 15:50
Bulgarian Church leader insists sacraments cannot transmit coronavirus
Church leader causes storm by claiming services need not stop, as it is impossible to catch virus from healing sacraments – a view health professionals dispute. Metropolitan Neofit of Sofia, the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, has drawn anger – and some ridicule – after his office said church services would continue in the…
14.03.2020 | 14:33
The Feast Of The Boiled Wheat Miracle by the Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro at the Jerusalem Patriarchate
On Saturday of the First week of Great Lent, February 23/ March 7, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Hieromartyr Polykarp Bishop of Smyrna according to the immobile feasts of the Minaion, and the commemoration of the boiled wheat miracle of the Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro, according to the mobile…
14.03.2020 | 14:16
The Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Jerusalem Patriarchate
On the First Sunday of Great Lent, February 24/ March 8, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated as ‘Parresia’ at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre the commemoration of the restoration of the Holy Icons by the Empress Theodora and her son Michael in 842, during the Patriarchal Office of St. Methodios the Confessor. Ever since, the…
14.03.2020 | 10:11
The carnal thought: how to fight it
He who drives away the carnal thought by prayer is like someone fighting with a lion; he who subdues him by his resistance is someone still pursuing his enemy; but he who has once for all reduced its appeal to nothing, even though he is still in the flesh, is as one who has already risen from…
