As we progress through Holy Week with self-isolation and the various messages or news items concerning the course of the corona virus, I remembered the ‘Gospel of the Testament’. It’s the first of the twelve Gospels read on the evening of Great Thursday. It’s also the longest because it contains the words the Lord said…

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The Abbess Efthymia, of the Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist, near the town of Metamorphosi in northern Greece’s Halkidiki prefecture, reposed this week at the age of 88, with the cause of death attributed to heart disease. A funeral service will be held on Holy Thursday at the monastery. Five months before, the…

In response to numerous messages from friends of the online magazine Pemptousia, the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has accepted an invitation to address a homily during an online assembly, or synaxis, in the early afternoon of Good Friday. The specific time is between 12.30 and 1.30…

The Elpida Association of Friends of Children of Cancer and the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation this year are supporting the significant charitable work of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotida, in south-central Greece. Nearly 600 care parcels of were distributed by the Metropolis this week to at-risk households. On his part, the Metropolitan of Fthiotida spoke…

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou spoke separately on Wednesday with the presidents of Malta George Vella and of Ireland Michael Higgins to thank them for their letters of solidarity over the coronavirus pandemic. Both Sakellaropoulou and Vella emphasized the need for a careful and gradual lifting of related restrictive measures, while the presidents of Malta and Ireland…

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantinos Vlasis conversed by telephone today with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to express his best wishes ahead of Easter. The Deputy Minister reiterated the firm support of Greece’s government and Prime Minister for the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ecumenical Patriarch, and he also had the opportunity to talk…

The Bishop Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, this week gave an exclusive interview to the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki. Speaking via Skype, His Eminence referred to the present ordeal faced by humanity from the invisible threat of the coronavirus. Amphilochios also detailed the centuries of trials and tribulations…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem reminded this week that the faithful from around the world can watch the ceremony of the lighting of the Holy Flame — annually held on Holy Saturday inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem – via a live connection on the Patriarchate’s official Facebook page.     In a…