On Saturday, September 29/ October 12, 2019, the Consecration of the Holy Church of Saint Savvas the Sanctified was held, at the Greek Orthodox Arab-Speeking Community of town Yafaan Nasirah, near the city of Nazareth, where our Lord Jesus Christ lived and because of which, He was called Nazarene. This Holy Church, initially built in…

Within the central celebration of the jubilee of the eight centuries of the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch opened a monumental exhibition “The Eight Centuries of Art under the auspices of the Serbian Orthodox Church” in the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church on 9 October 2019. The exhibition is organized with…

Over 25,000 believers flocked to Iasi on Monday to attend the Divine Liturgy in honour of Saint Paraskeva the New at the outdoor altar of the Metropolitan Cathedral. A record number of devout Romanians and pilgrims from abroad came out to venerate the relics of Saint Paraskeva in a weekend-long celebration in Iasi leading up…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Saturday venerated the reliquary containing a relic of Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker brought from Corfu island to Romania for the feast of Saint Paraskeva. The relic was brought by a delegation of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Corfu, headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Nektarios. The relic stationed in Bucharest for…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chaired the Monastic Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest at the Patriarchate’s Palace on Thursday, October 10, 2019. In his opening remarks, the Patriarch explained the five dimensions of this year’s Assembly including liturgical, cultural, missionary, practical and hospitable aspects. The liturgical dimension refers to the participation of monastics in the…

On Sunday, 13 October 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided at the Matins and the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint John the Baptist in Haringey, N. London. Celebrants were Archim. Theophanis Petrou, Protopresbyters Andreas Hadjisavvi and Charalambos Leontas, Presbyter Pavlos Grigoriou and Archdeacon Evgenios Tsaramanidis.

On Saturday, 12 October, 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas visited the Community of Saints Sophia, Faith, Hope and Love, Bishop’s Stortford. With his Eminence served the Very Revd Protopresbyter Constantinos Garivaldinos, the Revd Presbyter Stylianos Savva and Archdeacon Evgenios Tsaramanidis.

Together they surveyed areas damaged by Hurricane Dorian. Archbishop Elpidophoros met with workers reconstructing houses damaged by the hurricane, offering them water. Water has become a precious commodity on some of the islands since the hurricane.   facebook.com/goarch

What thoughts we should confess? This question appears again and again. Here is a simple way to look at it: When you are in a skyscraper at 100th floor and someone is passing on the street and he is swearing against you, you will ignore him. If that person will enter in the skyscraper and…