My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Invocation Let us commence with prayer. Let us pray to the Lord. Kyrie Eleison. We give thanks to You, O Christ our God, for all Your tender mercies and your compassionate love. We ask your blessings upon our days together in the fellowship of Leadership 100, and upon…

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia will make his first visit of the new year to the St. Cleopas the Apostle Parish in Kalmar, Sweden on February 3-4, 2023, accompanied by the V. Rev. Archimandrite Bartholomew Iatridis, parish priest of the St. George Cathedral in Stockholm. On the afternoon of Friday, February…

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The All-Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios Koptidis has been appointed as the new First Secretary of the Church of Cyprus’ Holy Metropolis of Tamassos & Orinis, following a decision by the resident Metropolitan, His Grace Isaiah. NE Greece town’s residents attend Church services in traditional garb on feast day of St. Tryphon The Metropolitan of Didymoticho, Orestiada…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, continued a pastoral visit to the United States this week. On Wednesday, His Holiness officiated at the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Nova Gračanica, in Libertyville, Illinois, where an urn containing the Holy Relics of St. Mardarius, the Recluse of Kiev, are preserved and venerated. A prayer before the…

Today, Feb. 2, is devoted to young people by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, with the Church and its Fathers paying particular attention to problems and concerns faced by today’s younger generations, as well as on ominous instances of violence plaguing society. The Church of Greece’s concern over all issues affecting Greek society and…

The Church today commemorates the great feast day of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple. When the purest Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary’s 40 days of purification had been fulfilled, she took her first-born Son to Jerusalem on the 40th day after His birth, that she might present Him in the temple,…

On International Orthodox Youth Day, marked annually on February, 2, we recall a recent message from Patriarch Daniel, who said the presence of young people in the Church must be active and dynamic. We also recall some examples of actions in the service of the neighbour carried out by youth organisations in the Romanian Orthodox…

Tuesday 31st of January marked the beginning of the school year at Saint Euphemia College, Bankstown. In Orthodox fashion, students and staff gathered in church for the Blessing Service, calling for God’s Grace upon all those who teach and those who are taught in the school. Presiding at the Blessing was the Chancellor of the…