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  Two instances of church vandalism were reported, with a small chapel within a cemetery near the central town of Lamia first burglarized and then set on fire by vandals. In the northern city of Thessaloniki, vandals scrawled slogans outside the historic Prophet Elijah Church in the Ano Poli district of the city.

  The annual procession of the Holy Relics of St. Spiridonas, a fourth century miracle worker, was held this year on the Ionian island of Corfu, but this time within a cathedral in the island’s capital, and without the presence of worshipers, due to coronavirus restrictions. According to Church tradition, St. Spiridonas is credited with…

  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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