If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge, then every good thing will be yours. You will fill your mind with the divine light. Then, when you apply that light to the doctrines of the Church, you will very easily recognize everything that…
UNESCO has inscribed Byzantine chant in Cyprus and Greece on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity The decision was taken by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in Bogota which inscribed one more element on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Sunday performed the re-consecration of a 200-year old church dedicated to saint Demetrios the myrrh-gusher in Bucharest’s old town. In his sermon, the Patriarch referred to the crippled woman in the Gospel reading from Luke noting that she received healing ‘in a place of prayer, where God’s word is…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania received Bucharest’s Honorary Citizenship for his contribution to the spirituality and education of the Romanian people. The Patriarch of Romania received the award from Bucharest Mayor Gabriela Firea at the Patriarchal Residence Thursday. Mayor Firea was accompanied by a delegation of the Bucharest City Hall including the former…
His Grace Silvester celebrated Holy liturgy at that Church of St. Spyridon in Nsinze which was commemorating there patron saint Spyridon. After he visited the new community in Iganga district , then in the evening he joined the youth at the on going youth camp in Jinja at the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral where he…
The synodical department of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church Relations with Society and Mass Media, in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, held a round-table meeting to discuss cooperation in the management of Orthodox communities’ social media, as well as the threat of defamation emanating from social media.
The northern Bulgaria city of Pleven this week celebrated the 142nd anniversary of its liberation from Ottoman rule, and specifically the day when the then Metropolitan of Pleven Ignatius held a memorial service in the courtyard of the St, George the Conqueror Chapel. The Chapel today serves as a mausoleum for the Russian and…
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday received the Civil Governor of Mt. Athos, Athanasios Martinos. Cooperation regarding the planned renovations at the Patriarchate’s Halki School of Theology were discussed. Martinos, a well-known ship-owner and philanthropist, has pledged to finance the works at the seminary, while he also briefed…
Thousands of mourners from around the world on Wednesday paid their respects and bid farewell to the Elder Ephraim of Arizona, considered as a pioneer of Orthodox Monasticism in North America — and as a significant figure in reinvigorating Orthodoxy in the New World over the past four decades. The 91-year-old Elder Archimandrite was…