On Monday, March 2, 2020, the second day of the spiritual retreat of the family of the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology began with prayer. Then the series of spiritual talks continued with His Eminence Ephrem (Kyriakos), Metropolitan of Tripoli, Koura and their dependencies. Metropolitan Ephrem spoke on the most important spiritual and…

On Sunday, March 1, 2020, the family of the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology began the Forty-day Lenten journey with a spiritual retreat in the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchate. The retreat includes a series of spiritual talks which began with His Grace Qais Sadiq, Bishop of Erzurum, who gave a…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released his Encyclical for this year’s Holy and Great Lent 2020. Read the full text below:   Holy and Great Lent 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released this year’s Encyclical for Sunday of Orthodoxy. Read the full text below:   Sunday of Orthodoxy 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon…

True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred and banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betrayal of vows. So, let your mind fast from vain thoughts; let your memory fast from remembering evil; let your will fast from evil desire; let your eyes fast from bad sights. True fasting means…

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  The online magazine Pemptousia this week includes a feature on the Metropolitan of Patras, His Eminence Chrysostomos, who speaks on the life and pastoral works of reposed Elder Gervasios Paraskevopoulos, as well as the proposal before the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the reposed Father’s beatification.

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, arrived in the border region of Evros on Wednesday, in a high-profile effort to show the Church’s solidarity and support for local residents and security forces. The border prefecture of Evros lies on the land border with Turkey in the Thrace province, which for the…

  The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week again touched on the coronavirus outbreak, which has dominated headlines and global concern since the beginning of the year. His Holiness and Beatitude called on the people to have faith and not fear a flu epidemic.   photo sputnik