SAN JOSE, CA – On Wednesday, March 22, 2022, at 5:00 pm, the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), the Daughters of Penelope (DOP), and the Maids of Athena (MOA) commemorated the 202nd Anniversary of Greek Independence with a special Greek Flag Raising Ceremony at San Jose City Hall Plaza. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan…

Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Today is a wondrous coming-together of our Community, to celebrate the glories of March 25th – both spiritual and secular. In fact, since March 25th is the Feast of the Incarnation of God into our world, the spiritual and the secular are joined together in ways marvelous to behold!…

The twin commemorations on Saturday of the great feast day of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, and the 202nd anniversary of the beginning of the monumental Greek War of Independence, were duly celebrated in Greece and in Hellenic communities around the world. On the occasion, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His…

A private observance was held last Wednesday on the occasion of the name day of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III. The commemoration coincided with the feast day of the Forty Martyrs of Lake Sebasteia, with the Matins, Vespers and the Divine Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts performed at the Holy Church of…

Islamist Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the incumbent in the upcoming general elections in the country, again attempted to present the 2020 reconversion of the Hagia Sophia from a museum in a mosque as a “major achievement”, speaking a few days ago. According to reports, Erdogan stated that “…I keep mentioning where the country used…

The Church today, on the fifth Monday of Great Lent, venerates the memory of the Martyr Matrona of Thessaloniki.  

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For another year, the students of the Greek Orthodox School “Oakleigh Grammar” celebrated the ‘immortal 1821’ by participating in all the community events for the Greek National Anniversary of March 25, 1821. On Saturday 18th March 2023, a delegation of twelve students attended the Wreath Laying Ceremony organised by the Victorian National Commemoration Committee and…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated on Saturday, 25 March 2023, on the feast day of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, at the celebrating Church of the Annunciation in the Vafeochorion area of the Bosporus, the birthplace of the late Patriarch Ioakeim III. The divine word was preached by the Grand Ecclesiarch Archimandrite Aetios, director…