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…

On the day of the feast of the Three Hierarchs, the Protopresbyter P. Panos Gazis conducted a Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of Saint Catherine at the Greek Community of Alexandria. His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa presided over the service from the Throne. Then followed a Memorial Service,…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on Tuesday, 31 January 2023, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta conducted the Agiasmos Blessing for the beginning of the New School Year at Saint John’s College in Preston, Melbourne. His Grace Bishop Evmenios, who was joined by priests of the Archdiocesan District of Northcote,…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, and in the presence of His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope, The Archdiocesan District of Adelaide hosted a dinner in honour of the volunteers, who helped and participated in the organisation of the “Glenelg Greek Festival”, which is held annually as part of the Epiphany…

With the grace of God and the prayers of His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and all Africa, His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitrios of Irinoupolis, blessed the foundations of yet another Orphanage, that of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, in Morogoro, Eastern Tanzania. Even though God blessed these 19 years of His Eminence’s…

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The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, this week spoke at the Holy Cross and Archangel Michael Cathedral in London on the occasion of the feast day of the Three Hierarchs, which annually serves as a celebration Greek and Christian letters and learning. The speaker at the event was Metropolitan Raphael of…