On Friday, January 4/17, 2020, after Matins at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, the Royal Hours of Epiphany were read, the included troparia of each of them were chanted and the Gospel narratives referring to our Lord Jesus Christ’s baptism the river Jordan were read. The Service was officiated by His Beatitude…

This Sunday’s gospel extract (Luke17,12-19) refers to the miracle of the cure of the ten lepers, which Jesus Christ offered to ten unfortunate suffering people who were expecting to die at any moment. We must bear in mind, that in the first century to which the incident refers – the bloodstained area today’s Palestine and…

Orthodox Russians take traditional three dips in icy rivers, lakes and ponds in early hours of January 19 Orthodox Russians are celebrating one of main Christian feasts, Epiphany, on January 19. According to the Gospel, during Christ’s baptism in the Jordan River, God was revealed in His three hypostases: the Father, the Son and the…

On 14 January 2020, on the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and Feast of St. Basil the Great, the first hierarch of the Orthodox Church of Moldova, Metropolitan Vladimir, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Holy Trinity Parish in Chisinau, one of the oldest and historical places of worship in the capital of…

The Representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions and Les Grands Heures de la Cambre invite you to the classical music concert  “La spiritualité roumaine dans la création musicale religieuse” by the Nicolae Lungu Choir of the Romanian Patriarchate. The event will take place on January 24, 2020, at 20:00, in Abbaye de la Cambre, Ixelles….

The Orthodox Church celebrates Epiphany today, January 19. A solemn liturgy has been conducted in all acting churches across Georgia. Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II held a festive liturgy at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. After the liturgy, a water blessing ceremony was held in the yard of the Holy…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, has conveyed a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the worrying situation faced by the Orthodox Church in Montenegro, in light of a controversial law passed this month by the government in the small Adriatic country. The Orthodox Church in Montenegro, which is under the…

Hellenism in Australia today celebrates the feast day of Macarius the Great of Egypt, which also marks the name day of the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, as numerous Greek Orthodox faithful on the island continent extended their best wishes to the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in the country. The Cretan-born Archbishop…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, again officiated at a Great Blessing of the Waters ceremony on Sunday in the southeastern Marmara Sea town of Trigleia – known in Turkish as Tirilye – on the occasion of the Feast Day of the Epiphany, as celebrated with the Julian calendar. Based on…