My beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We are now in the midst of our most precious season, and the hymns of the Church alert us to what is happening in this last week of the Lord’s earthly ministry. Day by day, we will follow the Lord on His Way to the Cross. Tonight, we…

The performance of excerpts from the trilogy “Grand Hours”, which took place last September at the Herod Atticus Odeon of Athens, has been posted on Youtube. The State Orchestra of Athens, conducted by Stathis Soulis, accompanied by 100 choristers from three separate choirs, along with artists Glykeria, Dimitris Bassis, Eleanna Varela and Jonathan Jackson, the…

The first season of the spiritual mini-series “St. Paisios: From Farasa to the Heavens”, a production of the St. Maximus the Greek Institute, will be re-broadcast this Holy Week by the Athens-based Mega Channel. The first episode was aired on the evening of Holy Monday, with the concluding episode of the first season coming on…

A day earlier, on Holy Monday, the Service of the Bridegroom, known in Greek as Nymphaio, was celebrated in Orthodox churches and chapels around the world. From the northeast Aegean Island of Imbros, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday officiated at the reverent and solemn Bridegroom Service, and the…

The Holy Metropolis of Mesogea and Lavreotiki, located east of Athens proper, this Holy Week issued an encyclical on the welcoming of the Holy Light from Jerusalem. The Holy Light will again be conveyed to Greece this year by plane from the Holy City, and specifically with the aircraft landing at the Eleftherios Venizelos International…

Today we bring to mind the parable of the 10 virgins, which our Savior related as He was coming to His Passion. This parable teaches us that the accomplishment of virginity should not make us careless in other matters, especially in almsgiving. Furthermore, it teaches us that we should not be remiss about the end…

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On the occasion of the glorious Palm Sunday and the Holy Week, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem extends its greetings to the Orthodox communities and to the people of the world in general. The Patriarchate hopes and prays that peace and security will come to the Holy Land and the entire world in those holy great…

On Sunday, March 27 / April 9, 2023, the feast of Palm Sunday was celebrated by the Patriarchate in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. On this feast, the whole Church of Jerusalem commemorates the triumphal entry of the Lord after the resurrection of Lazarus, seated on a colt, when the children of the Jews,…