Serbian-American director and writer Yelena Popovic spoke to the Romanian-language ecclesiastical site Basilica this week about the award-winning film “Man of God”, which recounts the life, works and tribulations overcome by 20th century St. Nektarios of Aegina. The inspirational film, which posted record ticket sales in Greece and Cyprus, and has been shown in several…

A wide-ranging interview with the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Glyfada, Voula & Vouliagmeni, His Eminence Antonios, will be posted this week on the pages of Pemptousia television. His Eminence referred to the constant desire that the faithful must have in order to truly experience Christ and to celebrate a spiritual Christmas. He…

The Church today venerates the memory of Paramon and his 370 Companion Martyrs in Bithynia. Today is also the feast day of New Martyr Archimandrite Philoumenos, of Jacob’s Well.

During the annual assembly of the superiors of all monasteries within the Archdiocese of Bucharest, which took place last Thursday at the Patriarchal Palace, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel shared his thoughts on prayer, hesychasm, and the antidote to secularisation. The most concise and intense prayer “The first duty of a monk or nun is to…

“Man can never be happy if he doesn’t have God in his heart,” says Yelena Popovic, who fled the war in former Yugoslavia and made herself a life in Los Angeles and an acting career at Hollywood. She discovered Orthodoxy in America, or, rather said, she re-tapped to her inner spiritual identity inherited from her…

On Sunday morning the 27th of November, on the day that the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Adelaide was officially handed over for public worship, a second important ecclesiastical event increased the joy of the clergy and the faithful who took part in the Divine Liturgy. This was the ordination to the diaconate of subdeacon…

On November 28, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed GOARCH pilgrims to Istanbul for the Fourth Centennial Pilgrimage of 2022. His Eminence arrived earlier this weekend and participated in the meeting of the Holy and Great Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (November 27 — November 29). On November 29, the group will attend the…

“My goal was to bring St Nectarios to the hearts of people. I felt if I could do that, this particular story could help them”, said Yelena Popovic in an exclusive interview for Basilica.ro. “It’s a great thing to give hope.” Yelena Popovic is the director and scriptwriter of the film “Man of God”, about…

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