Last month’s Holy and Great Easter Week services and the splendorous Holy Saturday liturgy heralding the Lord’s Resurrection were reverently and solemnly observed with centuries-old Athonite rite at the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. Holy Easter and Resurrection services were officiated by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of Vatopedi, and…

The second screening of the award-winning film “Man of God” in the Australian city of Adelaide is scheduled for Wednesday, May 11, with the blessing of the Bishop of Sinope, His Grace Silouan. The film, which has set ticket sales records in Greece and Cyprus and has been well-received by movie-goers around the world, depicts…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Wednesday continued his pastoral tour of Kosovo & Metohija by visiting the historic Visoki Decani Monastery. His Holiness led a large delegation of Serbian Church hierarchs and Patriarchate ecclesiastical administrators. The Serbian Patriarch and the delegation members were solemnly welcomed by His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raška…

The female choir of the Holy Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, in the greater Thessaloniki area, this week performed in Constantinople, following an invitation by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Kydonies, His Eminence Athinagoras. According to a press release by the northern Greece metropolis, the performance was based on the life of the Ecumenical Patriarch,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Irene the Great Martyr. Today is also the feast day of St. Ephraim, the miracle-working saint and martyr.

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About the Seminar Since our true life is to be found only in relation and reference to God, we must return to our natural position, which is in Paradise, in communion with God. After the fall of Adam and Eve and then the restoration of our relationship and communion with God through Jesus Christ’s death…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Wednesday officiated at a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Stavropegic and Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, in Kosovo & Metohija. The Divine Liturgy was con-celebrated by their Graces, Bishops Jovan of Šumadija, David of Kruševac and Teodosije of Raška-Prizren, as well as several other hierarchs and clergymen of…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, this week visited the Holy Cathedral of St. George in the much-suffering northwest Syrian city of Hama. The visit marked the second time that His Beatitude has visited the city over the past few months, at the invitation of the resident Metropolitan, His…