The Israel Antiquities Authority  (IAA) has discovered in some desert caves 80 new fragments of a 1,900-year-old Biblical scroll with texts from prophets Zachariah and Nahum. Marcello Fidanzio, the Director of the Archaeological and Cultural Institute of Biblical Lands in Lugano, declared for Vatican News it is the first discovery of note since the great excavations in the 1940s…

According to Radio Slovo Ljubve, in the monastery of Privina Glava near Sid on March 13, 2021, on the Eve of the beginning of Lent, His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem tonsured five novices. The newly tonsured nuns were given the names: Natalija, Apolinarija, Pelagija, Vasilija and Hristina, while Father Makarije was appointed abbot of…

In memory of the death of Holy Bishop Nikolaj in the Lelic monastery, his endowment and his father Dragomir, the Holy Liturgy was served, which was officiated by the head of that family, Abbot Georgije, with the concelebration of the priests from Valjevo. Following the Holy Liturgy, Diocesan dean of Bishop of Valjevo, protonamesnik FIlip…

In a pastoral letter for the First Sunday of Great Lent, also called the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Holy Synod members of the Romanian Orthodox Church said that the feast is a call to victory. “On the Sunday of Orthodoxy or the Triumph of the True Faith we are also called to be triumphant, with the help…

The Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America recite the Synodikon of the 7th Ecumenical Council for the occasion of the Sunday of Orthodoxy.      — assemblyofbishops.org  

On Friday, the Orthodoxia News Agency and the online platform Pemptousia streamed the Holy Services of the First Friday of Lent – the liturgy of the Salutations to the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary – from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy Monastery of Asteriou. Live-streaming services during Great Lent aim to buttress the faithful…

My Beloved Ones, I greet you with love and joy as we approach the end of the first week of Great Lent! This first Sunday of Lent is known as “The Sunday of Orthodoxy” when the veneration of icons was restored to the Church in the year 843, after decades of Iconoclasm. I pray that…

To the Sacred Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods, and the blessed laity of the Sacred Metropolis of Chicago. Beloved fathers and brethren, Beloved children in the Lord, Every morning we ask ourselves, “What shall I wear?” As we put on our bodily garments, however, we should ask even more urgently each day, “How is…

The newly enthroned Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, this week concluded his tour of the Kosovo and Metohija province, the cradle of Serbian civilization, with a visit to the historic Visoki Decani Monastery. His Holiness was greeted by the Elder Archimandrite Sava, the Abbot of the monastery, who underlined that the presence of the…