On Sunday, April 21, 2024, the Catechism School of the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church in Fairview, New Jersey held their 2024 Pascha Retreat. This year’s theme was Holy Communion. The children watched the video “How is Communion Prepared?” Father Christos explained key details and the children listened carefully. The children took home a puzzle they…

Yesterday, April 21, 2024, the community of Saints Constantine and Helen in Jackson Heights, NY hosted a Midnight Run. Parishioners came together and donated, helped prepare meals, and delivered meals as a part of this volunteer effort. The Midnight Run Organization: “is a volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the…

His Grace Bishop Neofitos of Eldoret in Northern Kenya (Patriarchate of Alexandria) is visiting the United States to raise awareness and material support for the missionary work in his diocese, which includes building the diocesan center, funding clergy, digging wells for water-deprived regions, establishing and improving children’s homes, schools, and clinics, and other such vital…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, His Grace Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos together with clergy and faithful from neighboring communities gathered in the venerable Saint Paraskevi Church in Greenlawn, New York to offer the last Contrition Vespers for Great and Holy Lent. This solemn occasion marks the culmination of weeks of…

Dear Juka & Choir Members, Dearly Beloved Brothers & Sisters in Christ, CHRIST IS RISEN! In the joy created in our souls by the Resurrection of the Lord, which you already celebrated, following the Julian Calendar, I am again in your midst, to commemorate the feast of the Myrrh-bearing women; Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew responding to an honorary invitation by the President of the French Republic Mr. Emmanuel Macron, left on Sunday, 21 April for Paris, accompanied by Their Eminences, Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon and Metropolitan Andreas of Forty Churches, the Grand Ecclesiarch Archimandrite Aetios Director of the Personal Patriarchal Office, and the…

On the 5th Sunday of Lent, 21 April, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia visited the Parish-Community of Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos in the suburb of Banksia in Sydney, and liturgised on the occasion of the feast day of Saint Mary of Egypt and the finding of the relics of the Patron Saint…

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, I am delighted to be with you, here in this wonderful community of Staten Island, as we prepare for the final week prior to Holy Week. Today, we celebrate one of the greatest Saints of the Church, Mary of Egypt, whose life was completely changed by her experience of…

Saturday, April 20, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America ordained Bishop Anthony of Synada at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. Axios! His Grace’s family, fellow hierarchs, local clergy, and many Greek Orthodox faithful gathered for this special ordination. Hierarchs in attendance include Archbishop Demetrios former of America, Metropolitan Gerasimos of…