Today is Holy Monday on the Orthodox calendar, the beginning of Holy and Great Easter Week, also known as “Passion Week”. Holy Week actually commenced during the evening service on Palm Sunday, when the next day’s morning service, the Matins of Holy Monday, is celebrated. Monday of Holy Week commemorates the blessed and noble…

  The well-known television news program “60 Minutes” aired a feature over the weekend on the under-construction Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, located at “Ground Zero” in Manhattan. The original St. Nicholas and the iconography it displayed were destroyed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. After almost two decades, the church…

  The ideal for the continuance of humanity cannot be the right of the powerful but the globalization of solidarity Interview by Margarita Pournara, I KATHIMERINI April 12th, Sunday edition The voice of Archbishop Anastasios of Albania from the other end of the telephone exudes as always serenity and wisdom. Either in person or from…

The service of Matins of Great Tuesday from the Annuncation Church of Pireaus

  Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral New York, New York Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Σήμερον ἡ χάρις τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, ἡμᾶς συνήγαγε, καὶ πάντες αἴροντες τὸν Σταυρόν σου λέγομεν· Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος, ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου· Ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις. Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us together, and as we all…

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Thirty years ago when I was a young novice at Saint Tikhon’s Monastery, I recall being moved while reading an account of the Athonite Elder Callinicus the Hesychast (1853–1930) who went to the austere community of Father Daniel, a community in the Athonite desert always lacking milk, cheese, and eggs. Father Daniel explained to the…

The Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, along with another five clerics was arrested by Montenegro police on Sunday, Palm Sunday with the Orthodox liturgical calendar, and held for five hours before being released. The latest eyebrow-raising attack on religious freedom in the small Adriatic country came on the pretense of…

The documentary “Elder Joseph the Hesychast” has won four awards at the London Greek Film Festival (LGFF), which is taking place this spring in an online format due to the coronavirus restrictions. A jury of critics bestowed the “Best Creative Documentary” to the production, which brings the life and works of the recently canonized Athonite…