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.  

The Orthodox world today celebrates the Feast Day of Great Martyr St. George, one of the most prominent commemorations in the ecclesiastical calendar. One of the more unique traditions in Greece related to the specific Feast Day was again celebrated in the village of Lefkakia, in the Nafplio municipality of southeast Greece, where an icon…

The Resurrection of the Lord was celebrated with spiritual exuberance by the Orthodox faithful of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Congo-Brazzaville & Gabon. His Eminence, Archbishop Panteleimon, officiated at a midnight service at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Lord in Brazzaville. The specific Archdioceses is one of the most dynamic Orthodox Metropolises in sub-Saharan…

The Service of the Resurrection was celebrated with millennia-long Byzantine splendor at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos. The service was celebrated in the presence of Mt. Athos governor Constantinos Dimtsas. The Holy Saturday Divine Liturgy, which began at 9 p.m. and concluded in the early…

The miracle of the Holy Light at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem again touched millions of faithful in every corner of the world this year, coming in the afternoon of Holy and Great Saturday, the day before Easter. Touching scenes materialized at the Holiest of Christian sites, with many worshipers weeping at…

  ORTHODOX AUTOCEPHALOUS CHURCH OF ALBANIA EASTER 2019 + Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Dürres and all Albania Hope without limits   “In Hope Rejoicing” we exclaim Christ is Risen! My brethren, the Resurrection offers immeasurable hope. Hope based on the joyful news that the inexorable enemy of man, death, is vanquished. Christ has trampled down…