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Going Which Way? Great Lent begins and with it begins a time of reorientation of ourselves. The Church tells us, take a portion of our year, and rededicate it to God. One of the Fathers of the Church, St. Dorotheos of Gaza, calls it a tithe of time The forty Read more…
We have begun a most blessed and important and joyful time of the year; Great Lent. If fully utilized, Great Lent can be a most rewarding experience. It brings us to Holy Week and Pascha wherein we celebrate the culmination of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ work on earth, Read more…
Last week, OCMC (Orthodox Christian Mission Center) leadership and donors traveled to Huehuetenango, Guatemala to witness the opening of a new seminary. This new facility was built through collaborative community effort, and is a crucial addition in an area where thousands of new Orthodox Christians are being served by only Read more…
Join myOCN Community and Fr. Tom Zaferes as we make a Pilgrimage to Pascha! This weekly Monday program will highlight the various themes and spiritual insights the Church offers each week in preparation for Great Lent (the Pre-lenten period), Great Lent and Holy Week utilizing hymnography, scriptural readings, teachings of Read more…
Season two of The Black American Orthodox Experience begins with a conversation between Fr. Samuel Davis and our guest Fr. Nathaniel Johnson. Fr. Nathaniel was once of the many men and women who were famously welcomed into the Orthodox Church from the “Evangelical Orthodox Church” in 1987, but due to a Read more…
Fr. Christopher Metropulos sits down with three of the winners from this year’s Byzanfest film festival to talk about their projects. Byzanfest screens and streams the very best of Orthodox-inspired cinema, with a goal to foster the growth of the global Orthodox movie industry and introduce diverse audiences to our Read more…
What does Orthodox evangelism look like? Do Orthodox Christians proselytize? Fr. Martin Ritsi talks ‘reaching the unreached’ with OCMC.
Join Chef Sophia for a Holiday cooking video! This time, we’re focusing on cocktail hour recipes, but these Mediterranean-inspired bites are more than appropriate for the whole family. Watch below!
LIVE Tonight On the margins of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”) the Huffington Ecumenical Insitute at HCHC, in partnership with the Massachusetts Council of Churches is co-hosting a symposium to highlight the lived experience Read more…
“Man of God,” the highly anticipated award-winning box office hit based on the inspiring life of our beloved Orthodox saint, Saint Nektarios of Aegina that won the hearts of the public in Greece, Russia and Serbia starring Aris Servetalis, Alexander Petrov, and Mickey Rourke, premiered on the big screen as Read more…
In this bi-weekly program, Christo Pappademos sits down with young, recently ordained priests and deacons and chats with them about their personal journey to ordained ministry. In recent times, it seems fewer and fewer young men choose to pursue the priesthood as a life path. Christo would like those who Read more…
Earlier this month, Dr. Maria Khoury fled her home in Taybeh to Athens due to escalating violence following the events of October 7th. She speaks with Fr. Christopher Metropulos about her life in Palestine, the Christian community in the Holy Land, the complexities of living alongside Hamas as a political Read more…