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 in PDF format so that you can easily download Read more…
James W. Lillie At Eastertide, at some undetermined place and year, the Emperor Constantine I made his Oration to the Assembly of the Saints, either in Latin (Oratio ad sanctorum coetum) or Greek (Λόγος τῷ τῶν ἁγίων συλλόγῳ). It is a lengthy and not terribly interesting text, but given Read more…
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Member of the Editorial Board, Pemptousia, Associate Professor of the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki Orthodox theology maintains an attitude of respect towards animals, as it does towards the whole of creation, recognizing in it the words of God himself which he pronounced when forming it. Read more…
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich John was a son of Zebedee, a fisherman, and Salome, the daughter of Joseph, the Betrothed of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God. When the Lord Jesus called him, John immediately left his father and their nets and, together with his brother, James, followed Read more…
Saint Theofanis served as the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, and was associated with Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvitis (†1365), whose biographer he was. Saint Nikodimos the Athonite translated this admirable and much-admired biography into a simpler form of Greek. In it, Saint Theofanis says: ‘As God is my witness, Read more…
Saint George is one of the most beloved saints of the Eastern Church. In particular, the people of Cappadocia, his homeland, had recourse to him for help and assistance from very early on and his honour and fame spread throughout the world. The achievements of the saint didn’t remain only Read more…
Georgios Martzelos St Joasaph was the son of the pious ruler of Epirus and Thessaly Symeon Sinisi, who was descended from the royal house of Nemanja and was proclaimed “tsar of the Greeks, the Serbs and the Albanians” under the name of “Symeon Uros Palaeologus”. His mother, Thomaïs, was Read more…
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian Thessaloniki has been the cradle of many saints. There are hundreds of Thessalonian saints who adorn the holy synaxaria. One such saint is Theonas, archbishop of the city, a truly significant personality who made his mark in the Thessaloniki of the 16th century. We don’t have much Read more…
Contents Sign up to receive Orthodoxy Now Magazine Updates. Click to Read the Full Issue Sunday of Forgiveness by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou When a man finds his deep heart and turns it entirely and unwaveringly toward God, the Lord makes it bring forth fruit by the incorruptible seed of His Word. Read more…
Fotis Kondoglou On the eve of the feast of Saint Dionysios in 1589, she was in the monastery she had founded in Patisia. In the evening, the sisters gathered for the vigil. Some Muslims, who had long been at odds with her, jumped over the wall of the monastery Read more…