Palm Sunday coincided with Anzac Day on Sunday, but despite this Koans came to the sold-out Palm Sunday lunch to celebrate the religious occasion with friends. A traditional meal of fish and calamari followed a delicious fish soup, cooked by the group’s members. Guests had the opportunity to learn the art of Palm Sunday cross-making,…

Great and Holy Tuesday Holy Trinity/Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Staten Island, New York April 26, 2020 My beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We are now in the midst of our most precious season, and the hymns of the Church alert us as to what is happening in this last week of the Lord’s…

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Palm Sunday marked the first day of operation of the online Pemptousia TV, with the live-streaming of services from the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Spring, in central Athens. Pemptousia TV today will live stream the evening Bridegroom Service or Bridegroom Prayer, revolving around the theme of Christ as the Bridegroom of the Church. The broadcast…

Palm Sunday was celebrated with somberness and contemplation at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I officiated at the Divine Liturgy, conducted at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, and co-officiated by several Metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Elsewhere, the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, called…

The Holy Fire will be conveyed to Athens, and by extension, to all of Greece, from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday aboard a flight from the Holy Land. Special procedures will be in effect due to the pandemic, and in light of concerns expressed by the Israeli side. The…

A federation representing ethnic Pontian groups around the world called US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the Armenian genocide as historic. The federation also noted, in an announcement, that the path is now open for recognition of the genocide of other Christian populations of Asia Minor by the Ottoman forces and irregulars prior to and…

The Church today observes Holy Monday, commencing Holy and Great Easter Week. The holy Passion of our Savior begins today, presenting Joseph the all-comely as a pre-figuring of Christ. Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob, and his first son by Rachel; because he was so beloved by his father, his own brethren came to…

On Saturday afternoon, 11/24 April 2021, the procession of Palm Sunday was held in commemoration of the triumphant entry of the Lord in Jerusalem, when the children of the Hebrews welcomed Him crying out loud: “Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord”. H.H.B. our Father…