Purchase Tickets. Find a theatre near you and get your tickets now or request group tickets! We are pleased to announce that “Man of God,” the highly anticipated award-winning box office hit based on the inspiring life of our beloved Orthodox saint, Read more…
OCN is partnering with Fathom Events and Cinemark for tickets to the upcoming theatre release of the film Man of God about the life of Saint Nektarios. Eligible winners will receive tickets to the March 21st showing at a Cinemark Read more…
NOTICE: Sunday Bible Study will resume May 1st. Tuesday Bible Study will resume May 3rd. Join myOCN Community with Fr. Tom Zaferes and Fr. Nick Mueller. They will be offering Ascension Online Programs: Bible Studies and Encountering the Divine Liturgy. Read more…
Overcoming COVID-19 with Faith myOCN Community Online Gathering Thursday, May 28th, at 7:00 pm EST with special guests Fr. Costa and Presbytera Pauline Pavlakos both home and healthy after being diagnosed with, and hospitalized for COVID-19, within a few days Read more…
#FaithOverFear: Let’s Talk LIVE Online Community Gathering this coming Thursday, March 26th at 4:00 pm EST. Join our free event from your home. This is generously brought to you through the James and Joanne Mitchell Foundation, Inc. Things have been Read more…
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. The subject of the narrative in the Gospel of Saint John (5, 1) concerning the complaint of the man who’d been paralyzed for 38 years, is genuinely moving: Read more…
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the waters to be moved’. One of Read more…
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We have heard today in the Gospel of a man who for thirty eight years had laid paralysed. The only thing that separated him Read more…
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The resurrection and entry into the eternal life of the Kingdom of the Triune God are not abstract ideological matters. They are truths and circumstances Read more…
Panagiotis Christou In Slovenia The Moravians and Slovenians were waiting impatiently for the brothers, but they did not appear. Kocel of Slovenia sent a letter requesting Methodios and the Pope sent him in the spring of 869, shortly after Read more…
Who is so great a god as our God? For You are the God, Who alone does wonders. ~Great Prokeimenon, Agape Vespers, Trans. by Fr. George Papadeas — What god is great like our God? Thou art the God Read more…
Panagiotis Christou The World of the Slavs The Slavs first appeared in history at the end of the first century A.D. They then lived to the east of the Germans, in the region of the Vistula. In the sixth Read more…
Panagiotis Christou By the beginning of the ninth century, more than a thousand years had already passed since the foundation of the city of Thessaloniki (315 B. C.). During this time, the city had known days of magnificent glory Read more…
All those who have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ. Alleluia ~Paschal Divine Liturgy, Trans. by Fr. George Papadeas — For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were Read more…
Welcome to “The Children’s Word,” a weekly ministry of the Orthodox Christian Network. Each week, Presvytera Alexandra Houck writes this little newsletter for young parishioners! You will find age-appropriate articles, stories, and activities in every edition. The newsletter is provided Read more…
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