A Turkish newspaper, Yeni Safak, this week reported that a group of Turkish archaeologists have located and excavated the historic cell where the Apostle Paul once stayed during his travels in Asia Minor. It was in Asia Minor where the Apostle preached the Gospel and attracted his first large group of Christian believers.ς κατά According to Turkish…

The afternoon Agape vespers service was held on Easter Sunday at the St. Savva Metropolitan Cathedral in Belgrade, with the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, presiding. In Romania, the Bishop of Ploesti, His Grace Varlaam, presided over the Easter Saturday Resurrection service at the Bucharest Cathedral, where he underlined that the “The Gospel readings…

Perfect weather conditions this year greatly assisted in the holding of the tradition of the “headscarves” at the disused monastery of St. George Mandilas, near the central Greece village of Kastraki, in the Kalabaka district. The Monastery is built into the sheer rock face. Monday was the Feast Day of the Great Martyr St. George,…

A litany was held this week at the Holy Monastery of Chiliandari, on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos. The monastery hosts the miraculous icon of the Panaghia Tricherousa, to which iconoclast St. John Damascene prayed, while holding his severed hand. His hand was miraculously reattached after he had fallen asleep before the icon. The…

The Greek Orthodox Church today venerates the new martyrs Raphael, Nicholaos and Irini, who lived in the 15th century and were martyred on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos (Lesbos) during a 1496 raid by Muslim Ottomans. The trio was canonized by the Greek Church in 1970.

On Easter Sunday afternoon, April 15/28, 2019, the Resurrection of the Lord was celebrated with the Service of the “Second Resurrection” or Vespers of love. This began from the Patriarchate with the reading of the 9th Hour of Easter, during which His Beatitude the Archbishops and the Priests put on their Liturgical vestments while “Christ…

On Easter Monday morning of the Bright Week, April 16/29, 2019, the Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord was celebrated as the feast of the Brotherhood at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen. The Feast was celebrated with the Paschal Divine Liturgy, with the participation in prayer of H.H.B. our Father and…

Beloved in the Lord children of our Holy Church, The wondrous news about the victory of Christ is still spread throughout the whole Universe today, in order to warm our hearts and to fill our souls with a joy that can be compared with no other joy because again the plentitude of the Church is…

Greek Orthodox pilgrims in the Holy Land this week celebrated Easter in the heart of the desert and next to the Jordan River. The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Gerasimos of the Jordan, the Elder Chrysostomos, blesses the food on the splendid Easter table, set for pilgrims and all visitors alike.