Beloved Sisters and Brothers in the Lord, I am so pleased to be worshipping with you this evening, especially during these Holy Days of Δεκαπενταύγουστος. This sanctified season in the liturgical life of the Church affords us a pause from the mere recreation of Summer. It brings into focus the meaning of the Virgin Mary’s…

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EAST AURORA, NY (WKBW-TV) — The 7th Annual Great Lakes Christian Film Festival will take place in East Aurora, this week Thursday through Saturday. According to festival director Shawn Patrick Greene, there will be fifty films shown that are “faith based and family friendly.” Shawn says “We pretty much are spreading the gospel of Jesus…

On Monday 20 July / 2 August 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the holy glorious Prophet Elijah (Elias) at the Holy Monastery bearing his name between south Jerusalem and Bethlehem. On this day the Church commemorates that prophet Elias the Thesbite was full of godly zeal regarding the fact that the God of…

On the feast day of the Prophet of God Elijah, festivities “Ilyin’s Day on Ilyinke Street” were traditionally held in Moscow. The celebration began with the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy in the church of Saint Elijah the Prophet, which was served by Their Graces Bishops Teophylact of Mytishchi and Jovan of Slavonia with the concelebration of…

The Metropolitan of Syros, His Eminence Dorotheos, on Tuesday offered his blessing an inauguration ceremony for a new exhibition at the Archaeological Museum on the Cyclades island of Mykonos, which is dedicated to the bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence. The exhibition, entitled “The Aegean Archipelago is Burning”, was organized by…

Wednesday marks one year since the massive explosion at the port of Beirut, in Lebanon, which claimed 210 lives and injured thousands of people. One of the many buildings damaged in the blast was the Orthodox hospital of St. George as well as to cathedrals belonging to the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Beirut. In his…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, on Tuesday evening officiated at the service of the Great Paraklesis to the Virgin Mary, at the historic Agiasma of the Panaghia Vefa, off the Golden Horn in the Bosporus Metropolis. The Church of Crete’s Metropolitan of Arkalochori, His Eminence Andreas, was in Constantinople and attended the service,…

Some 80 residences were seriously damaged by a massive wildfire centered at the Varybobi township, just north of the greater Athens area, while a total 41 new wildfires were recorded throughout Greece since Tuesday evening, civil protection authorities announced during an emergency briefing on Wednesday morning. Regarding the situation in Varybobi, the relevant deputy minister…