His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, awarded writer Momir Krsmanovic with the Order of Saint Sava at a solemn reception at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 22 October 2019. The event was attended by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops: His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia and Their Graces Bishops Irinej of Backa, Jovan…

This week, the priests at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest are wearing special vestments with traditional motifs to highlight the importance of the Romanian village as keeper of the country’s traditions, culture and spirituality. The start was given last Sunday when His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Divine Liturgy dressed in the hierarchical ‘folk costume’….

Love can’t hurt you; you’re wounded but not because of love. You once told me: “I was wounded by love. I fell in love and got hurt because of it.” I don’t know if you remember what I replied to you then. It wasn’t directed at you personally; it was something I had learned in…

Seven hierarchs, assisted by almost two dozen clergymen, gathered in worship (watch v​ideo and view a​lbum) around the holy altar at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, October 20. They celebrated so much for which they were thankful: the body and blood of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ; the…

Beirut Greek Orthodox Archbishop, Metropolitan Elias Audi, considered on Wednesday that void is better than the current condition prevailing in Lebanon. Speaking from Bkekri, Audi highlighted the necessity to let the Lebanese talk with each other. “Let there be twenty voids, as void is better than what we are through today,” said the prelate.  …

Greek Orthodox priests of Thebes and Livadia, central Greece, said that they would refuse to perform funeral services for people who were cremated. They reasoned that the practice goes against the Christian belief in resurrection of the body and the second coming. “We will not bury those who are cremated,” they said in a written…

Encyclical on the 28th October 1940 My beloved in the Lord, Each year, the Hellenic people celebrate bringing into mind the events of October 28, 1940, when Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas boldly declared that the Hellenic people would not bend to the voice of tyranny and oppression. One simple word, “OXI”, expressed the mind, ethos,…

On the 23rd of October, 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew II, proclaimed the entry into the Official Calendar of the Church of yet another Athonite saint: Elder Sophronios (Sacharov) from Essex. The announcement was made in the conference of the Holy Council of Mount Athos by His All-Holiness with a lot of emotion….

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