Palm Sunday marked the first day of operation of the online Pemptousia TV, with the live-streaming of services from the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Spring, in central Athens. Pemptousia TV today will live stream the evening Bridegroom Service or Bridegroom Prayer, revolving around the theme of Christ as the Bridegroom of the Church. The broadcast…

Palm Sunday was celebrated with somberness and contemplation at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I officiated at the Divine Liturgy, conducted at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, and co-officiated by several Metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Elsewhere, the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, called…

The Holy Fire will be conveyed to Athens, and by extension, to all of Greece, from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday aboard a flight from the Holy Land. Special procedures will be in effect due to the pandemic, and in light of concerns expressed by the Israeli side. The…

A federation representing ethnic Pontian groups around the world called US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the Armenian genocide as historic. The federation also noted, in an announcement, that the path is now open for recognition of the genocide of other Christian populations of Asia Minor by the Ottoman forces and irregulars prior to and…

The Church today observes Holy Monday, commencing Holy and Great Easter Week. The holy Passion of our Savior begins today, presenting Joseph the all-comely as a pre-figuring of Christ. Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob, and his first son by Rachel; because he was so beloved by his father, his own brethren came to…

On Saturday afternoon, 11/24 April 2021, the procession of Palm Sunday was held in commemoration of the triumphant entry of the Lord in Jerusalem, when the children of the Hebrews welcomed Him crying out loud: “Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord”. H.H.B. our Father…

On Saturday 11/24 April 2021, Lazarus’ rising from the dead was celebrated by the Patriarchate on the Mount of Olives, at the place of the Lord’s Ascension into the heavens, which is located opposite the town of Bethany. On this feast, the Church commemorates the fact that “signifying the common resurrection”, the Lord resurrected His…

To the surprise of all the Messiahs, he came not with trumpets and fanfares but on a modest donkey. Thus, the Lord Christ showed that God created man in his image and likeness as a free being, so that man could freely respond to the infinite love and mercy of God, said Patriarch Porfirije. His…

His Grace Bishop Irinej visited the Boston parish during the weekend of April 16-18, 2021.Arriving on Friday, April 16, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej led the faithful of the Boston parish in prayers to the Mother of God during the Akathist service accompanied by the beautiful voices of Protodeacon Milos Zdralic and host priest, the…