Saint Nicholas Velimirovich In today’s Gospel, the paralytic arose immediately, took his bed upon his shoulders and walked past everyone. And everyone was amazed and glorified God saying: “We’ve never seen the like”. Let’s look at the marvellous powers the Lord reveals for us in this miracle: He reads Read more…
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian On the first Sunday in Lent we celebrate the restoration of the holy icons. The Church celebrates. Orthodoxy celebrates. The human race celebrates, since all of us are made in the image (icon) of God. The Church confesses in a variety of ways. It gives Read more…
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) are proud to announce a new discussion series beginning this Spring: “The Black American Orthodox Experience” hosted by Archimandrite Chrysostom Onyekakeyah and Fr. Samuel Davis. This new series will focus on Orthodox missions in America—insights, challenges, and how Read more…
Sotiris Stylianou The Gospel reading read in churches on the first Sunday in Lent, on 5 March 2023, is John 1, 44-52. Jesus is in Judea, where three of his later disciples and Philip, another later disciple, have just met him. Jesus tells Philip to accompany him on his Read more…
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos Today’s Gospel certainly has nothing to say to those who embrace the modern ‘gospels’ of self-salvation, which derive from the demonic ‘gospel of the serpent’: ‘You can become gods without God’. The words of the reading will be heard with even greater indifference by those who Read more…
Elder Patapios Kavsokalyvitis, Superintendent of the Skete of the Holy Trinity, Mount Athos By fasting, we learn to say ‘No’ to our desire for food and also learn to say ‘No’ to our often self-destructive will. We also learn to say ‘Yes’ to God, which is always redemptive. We’ve Read more…
Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is to say the feast of the restitution of the holy icons, as the Church once again, by the grace of God, vanquished the heresy of the iconoclasts and preserved with exactitude Read more…
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol The time of the Triodio is the whole of our spiritual life in miniature. If you follow the messages in the hymns every day, it’s enough to show the journey you have to make in the struggle that awaits you. It begins with the basis Read more…
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis ‘I shall open my mouth and it will be filled with praise and I shall pour out words to the Queen and Mother; I shall be seen radiantly keeping the festival and shall joyfully sing her wonders’ (irmos, ode 1, Akathistos Hymn). As the voice of Read more…
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos On the eve of our entry into Great Lent, everything in church speaks to us of repentance. The wonderful hymns ‘robe’ the message of repentance in a poetic manner; the Gospel reading gives us the keys to open the gates of repentance; and the Epistle reminds Read more…
Beginning March 6th, join Fr. Nebojsa Pantic from Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Monday nights during Lent for an in-depth study of the formation and building of the Orthodox Christian Church within the first 3 centuries after Christ. Join live on Zoom, 6:15pm Pacific Time, 9:15pm Eastern. Fr. Nebojsa Pantic Read more…
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous Amid the turbulence of our life, the deafening noise surrounding us, the long and pointless conversations on the telephone or in person, the stress and uncertainty regarding the state of the world today and tomorrow, the Church offers us the period of time of Great Lent. Read more…