Our good God gave us Time to draw us closer to Him, and space to draw us closer to each other. However, we can’t approach God without approaching ourselves, and vice versa, because of this, we have the notion of a spacetime continuum. As Creator, God is at the center—and beings are on the rays…

GOVERNOR CUOMO AND ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS ANNOUNCE CONSTRUCTION TO RESUME ON ST. NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH AND NATIONAL SHRINE AT WORLD TRADE CENTER Governor Officially Welcomes New Archbishop of America, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros to New York – See Photos Here Church Project Will Resume Under the Leadership of 13-Member ‘Friends of St. Nicholas’ Board Now in…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, this week issued his New Year’s message on the occasion of the advent of 2020, calling on the Church’s fathers and faithful to continue to pray incessantly for peace in Syria. The Church of Antioch and All the East, which is based in…

Torrential rainfall on the small eastern Aegean island of Symi over the past week has resulted in a rock slide damaging the St. Merkourios monastery, at the isle’s Niborio site. According to the site rodiaki.gr, the falling rocks and boulders caused damage but did not reach the main altar. According to local residents, the Metropolitan…

Reactions, including street protests, continued in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro on Thursday, a day after the new year commenced, in the wake of ratification of a law last week that the Orthodox Church there considers as extremely detrimental to its interests. The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, which is under the canonical…

A number of events will be held in the Montenegrin Metropolis of the Serbian Church in connection with the adoption of the anti-Church law that empowers the government to confiscate property from the Serbian Church. Among them, all the parishes of the Serbian Metropolis of Montenegro will ring funeral bells every two hours until the…

On Wednesday afternoon, December 19/2019, January 1/2020, after Vespers at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen of the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood, the Service of the Holy Unction followed, as a preparation for the forthcoming Christmas Feast. The Service was officiated by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, with six Archbishops as co-celebrants,…

The New Year Day marked the beginning of the Solemn Year of Pastoral Ministry of Parents and Children and the Commemorative Year of Romanian Orthodox Philanthropists. Following the New Year Divine Liturgy presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the general secretary of the Holy Synod, His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti, read out the…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released his New Year’s Day Encyclical. Read the full text below: 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 Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth…