We ask for a lot more and forget to be grateful, – Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II preached after the Great Thursday sermon. According to him, a human should be grateful for God’s great mercy. The Orthodox Christendom marks Great Thursday today. Great Thursday is the Christian feast or holy…

The road to the Davit Gareji monastery, which was closed by the Azeri border guards, has been opened. As archimandrite Kiril told InterPressNews, pilgrims, local residents and tourists can freely move to the monastery at this time. The Azeri border guards had closed the road and had not been letting clergymen in the monastery for…

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The hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod attended the consecration of the Holy Chrism, of myrrh, at the Patriarchical Cathedral in the Romanian capital. A video is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages.

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, on Holy Thursday exclaimed : “…. Amid a corrupt world, Orthodoxy can provide the path … with hearts filled with great joy and light — we celebrate the celebration of celebrations, the victory of faith and life over death, the feast of the Resurrection of…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, noted that the “… Great and Holy Lent is the moment where we have many opportunities to open our hearts and meet the Lord… this is the reason why it is so important to fulfill the Church’s canons in terms of the fast. Not to…

A camera crew from the Athens-based Star television station, and reporter Lambros Demertzis, was on Mt. Athos this week, and specifically at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, where he spoke with the Monastery’s Abbot, Archimandrite Ephraim, as well as to pilgrims that arrived from around the world for the Holy and Great Week,…

Great and Holy Thursday is observed today at Orthodox churches around the world, with the Passion of Jesus reaching a climax, as the day seals the Lord’s path to the Cross. Several unique services mark the Orthodox observation of Holy Thursday. The main service is the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil, which is conducted…

Foot washing ritual has been conducted at Sameba (Holy Trinity) Cathedral in Tbilisi today. Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II washed feet of 12 priests. This tradition is a symbolic repetition of the Gospel Episode when Christ washed the feet of his disciples; it is the symbol of love and demureness….