Beloved sisters and brothers in Christ, Tonight, we come to the Lord, so as to be anointed by Him with the oil of gladness and healing, and for the forgiveness of our sins.1 Last evening, we witnessed the Lord receiving Anointing with Holy Myrrh in anticipation of His Burial. But why? Because there would be…

PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICAL FOR HOLY PASCHA Prot. No. 169 + B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: MAY THE GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY OF CHRIST RISEN IN GLORY BE WITH YOU ALL * * * Having…

Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the entirety of the Christ-named Plenitude of the Holy Archdiocese…

†Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania Pascha 2022 Resurrection – love ultimately overcomes hatred Christ is Risen! Soothing pain and wounds, love will ultimately be victorious. This comforting message resounds diachronically through the luminous feast of the Resurrection of Christ. The culmination of love in world history is manifested in the advent of…

The Pemptousia platform will live-stream all of the Holy and Great Easter Week services from the Cathedral of St. George in the east Athens district of Papagos.

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The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porifirije, on Holy Tuesday attended an Easter event for children at a main Belgrade Park. His Holiness expressed his joy over the fact that He had the opportunity to meet with children only days before the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as Easter Sunday, Holy Pascha,…

Images emerged on Tuesday showing the serious vandalism inflicted on the historic Imperial Gate of Hagia Sophia, the greatest of all Basilicas of eastern Christendom. The latest desecration comes nearly two years after the Erdogan regime in Turkey insolently reconverted the Hagia Sophia into a Muslim mosque. Greece’s foreign ministry issued a terse statement on…

The Holy Light from Jerusalem will be conveyed to Greece this year via a private flight from the Holy Land to Athens, and specifically aboard an Aegean Air passenger jet. As opposed to previous years, the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece this time will not send a representative to accompany the…