The Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, in cooperation with the University of Crete Publications, has unveiled a series of Holy and Great Easter Week hymns, available on CD and USB. The hymns are chanted by Vatopedi fathers. For more information and orders please visit the website vatopedi.gr. 

The Metropolitan of Sweden & All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, presented an imposing fresco of the Enthroned Virgin Mary, surrounded by 10 Prophets, following the Palm Sunday service at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. George in Stockholm. This iconography is a copy of the Enthroned Virgin Mary painted by Emmanuel Jane, in roughly 1664.

Palm Sunday services were held with centuries-old Athonite rite at the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi. After the Divine Liturgy, a litany of the Holy Relics preserved at the Monastery was solemnly held, led by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and with the participation of…

The Archbishop of Durres, Tirana & All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, officiated at an Archieratical Divine Liturgy on Palm Sunday at the Cathedral of the Savior in Tirana, before numerous faithful. In His Sermon, the Archbishop spoke on the theme of God’s peace. 

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Palm Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the chapel of St. Sava in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Among the faithful were refugees from war-torn Ukraine, who are hosted in the city by the Orthodox Church.

The Mother Church in Constantinople, where the process to make the Chrism Oil used in the Orthodox Church for the Sacrament of Confirmation began on Palm Sunday at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Earlier the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at the solemn Palm Sunday archieratical Divine Liturgy. The ceremony for the…

Today our Orthodox Church observes Holy Monday, the beginning of Holy and Great Easter Week, culminating with Pascha, or Easter Sunday, in six days. The holy Passion of our Savior begins today, presenting Joseph the all-comely as a prefiguring of Christ. Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob, and his first son by Rachel; because…

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“Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay” (Matthew 28, 5-6). With these comforting words, the Myrrh-bearing Women were encouraged by “the angel that hath come down from heaven and moved…