Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona peacefully reposed in the Lord at about 10:00 PM on December 7 at St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence, Arizona. The beloved Athonite elder founded St. Anthony’s in addition to another 16 monasteries in America and Canada after leaving the Holy Mountain, where he had labored for many years as the spiritual…

The Arapovo Monastery of Saint Nedelya located southeast of the town of Asenovgrad is the only Bulgarian monastery built during the Ottoman rule. In the period of Bulgaria’s National Revival, it played an important role in the spiritual and cultural awakening of the Bulgarian nation. The monastery came to life in 1856 when a monastic…

Generally speaking, by “apocalypse” (ἀποκάλυψις) the people understand “revelation” or, more literally, “uncovering”. The term is tied, mainly, with Saint John Theologian’s work – Book of Revelation – from the New Testament which describes using pseudonymity and symbolic imagery for the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of…

It was on the Sunday after Theophany… …that the faithful of our blessed Archdiocese gathered in celebration for the ordination of Reverend Father Phillip Saba to the Priesthood, by the hand of His Eminence, Metropolitan Basilios. A capacity St. Nicholas parish gathered together, under the patronage of His Eminence, in prayer for this blessed occasion….

A free Orthodox rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol dependent women with children, “Tenderness,” was opened near Voronezh. It is the 18th such rehab center opened in Russia with the participation of the Church over the past four years and the first Church project aimed at helping dependent women with children, reports the site of…

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January 15, 2020 NEW YORK – In commemoration of the Holy Three Hierarchs (Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory the Theologian, and Saint John Chrysostom), on January 30th, the Office of Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America organizes the following events to celebrate Greek Letters and Arts: Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:00 a.m….

The commemoration of St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia was celebrated at his Holy Monastery in the Old City of Jerusalem, before the New Gate of the Wall of Jerusalem, on Tuesday January 1/14, 2020. For this feast the Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the morning of New Year’s by the Master…

On January 1/14, 2020, the feasts of the Lord’s circumcision and of the commemoration of St. Basil the Great were celebrated with an All-night Vigil at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Hagiotaphite Brotherhood went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at midnight and started the Service of Matins at the Catholicon. After…