Artoclasia – Medical Professionals & First Responders 2019 On Sunday, November 10, 2019, an Artoclasia was celebrated at Sts. Panteleimon, Anna, & Paraskevi in Markham for the health, protection and sanctification of all our Medical Professionals and First Responders. Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Police Officers, Firefighters and Military Personnel were invited to the Church and honoured…
Loneliness – voluntarily or not – is your time for prayer and knowing God better. This knowledge comes mainly via prayer because prayer is the union of the mind with God. Also, do not forget to do good deeds in order to keep God’s grace, especially be attentive, merciful, work and keep a constant program…
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A reliquary containing the skull of St. John Chrysostom, kept at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was conveyed this week to the northern Greece city of Thessaloniki for veneration by the faithful. The Holy Relic was conveyed to the city by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi,…
The issue of a reintroduction of a provision in Greece’s penal code against malicious blasphemy of religion generated increased scrutiny in the country over the past 24 hours, with the relevant justice minister detailing the revision in a draft bill, which is currently up for debate at the Parliament committee level. Nevertheless, on Tuesday morning…
Saint Nectarios of Aegina, an intercessor to God with an unceasing prayer, was a wise, enlightened hierarch full of humility,’ said His Grace Bishop Ieronim of Sinaia at the patronal feast of Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest on Saturday. During his homily, the patriarchal auxiliary bishop referred to the virtues of St Nectarios, whose devotion…
On Saturday, November 9, over 200 delegates, members of the Philoptochos and clergy attended the Metropolis of Boston Clergy-Laity Conference. Usually Saturday is reserved for family activities, but this morning the larger family of our Church was the one we attended to. Seeing all the tables full of people from all over New England, gave…
On 7th November 2019, at the Department for External Church Relations, Archpriest Sergy Zvonarev, DECR secretary for far abroad countries, met with Mr. Waleed Mohd Alemadi, Deputy Ambassador, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Russia. They were joined in the meeting by Mr. Makhmud Al-Hamza, political analyst of the Qatar…
On 10 November 2019, the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki – Representation of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, which was marking its 20th anniversary. Concelebrating with…