The Orthodox Youth Directors in North America will hold their first Webinar for the year March 23rd, 2021 at 1pm EST. The Topic of Discernment will be presented by Father Seraphim Aldea. Register by visiting orthodoxyouth.net. Fr. Seraphim Aldea was tonsured as a monk in 2005 at Rasca monastery in Bucovine, North Moldavia. He has…

The Metropolitan of Axum, His Eminence Daniel, underlined during his Cheesefare or Forgiveness Sunday sermon, as part of the Divine Liturgy at Addis Ababa’s St. Froumentios Greek Orthodox Cathedral, that “Paradise cannot hold those who cannot forgive”. His Eminence referred to the ancient rite and the true meaning of Great Lent, which began on Clean…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week told a Russian television station that the concept of a “Covid-19 vaccination passport” would violate the principle of voluntary inoculation. His Eminence, who is also the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, said most countries in the world, including European ones, are…

The Archdiocese of Australia’s Bishop of Kyanes, His Grace Elpidios, officiated at the Vespers of Forgiveness on Cheesefare Saturday over the weekend at the St. Nektarios Cathedral in the western coast city of Perth. During his sermon, His Grace first referred to the importance of forgiveness and then explained briefly the prayer of St. Ephraim…

Embattled Montenegro President Milo Đukanović this week continued his attack on the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic republic, even after his party lost last year’s general election and the new government overturned a controversial law that threatened religious institutions’ assets and relics, especially those of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral. Days…

Pandemic-related restrictions in Greece on non-essential outdoor travel and indoor assembly are expected to continue until Sunday, which on the Orthodox ecclesiastical calendar is Orthodox Sunday, falling this year on March 21, i.e. the first Sunday after the beginning of Great Lent. The restrictions continue to affect Church-going by the faithful in the east Mediterranean…

The Church today – the second day of Great Lent before Holy Pascha (Easter) – venerates the memory Christodulus the Wonderworker of Patmos, as well as Sabine the Martyr of Egypt.    

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy for Forgiveness Sunday/The Sunday of the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral yesterday. It also marked the 45th anniversary of his hierarchical ministry. At the end of the service, the Patriarch addressed the congregation with a primatial…

My beloved sisters and brothers in Christ, Today, we commence our annual pilgrimage to Holy Pascha – a sacred journey of Forty Days and Forty Nights, from which we emerge into the Holiest Week of the year, and the Passover from death to life. As we chant today, on Pure and Clean Monday – Kathara Deftera:…