The Church today venerates the memory of Juliana of Nicomedia, and her 630 companion Martyrs. St. Juliana achieved the crown of martyrdom in the year 299 when beheaded, and after suffering numerous brutal torments. Some 500 men and 130 women witnessed her devoutness in faith and thus believed in Christ. They, too, were also beheaded.

“Today our Church celebrates St Ignatios the God-bearer. The tradition says that he was the child that Christ held in his arms and said to everyone “If you do not become like this child, you will not inherit eternal life”. “What do the children possess that we don’t, and why can they enter the Kingdom…

Sunday the 20th of December 2020 marked the inaugural State-wide Christmas Carols (Kalanda) event for the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide. For many years, a number of parishes across Adelaide had been having their own Christmas carols. But for the first time this year, with the blessing and encouragement of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios and his…

On 28th Sunday after Pentecost, on Serbian Children’s day (Detinjci), His Grace Bishop Siluan of Australia and New Zealand celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint Nicholas in Blacktown. On this occasion, the Bishop blessed the cross which was raised and mounted on the restored dome of the church.The day before, on…

  On Saturday, December 6/19, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Nikolaos Archbishop of Myra in Lycia. On this feast the Church commemorates that Saint Nikolaos was the Archbishop of Lycia, “as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness” who “achieved the heights of humility, riches by poverty”,…

On Friday, December 5/18, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Holy Father Savvas the Sanctified at his Holy Monastery in the Judea desert, by the bank of brook Cedron, which leads to the Dead Sea. This old and respectable Monastery was founded by Saint Savvas himself, in A.D. 500. Saint Savvas came to…

On the feast day of Saint Nicholas of Myra, 19 December 2020, His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church in Nis. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Milutin Timotijevic, dean of the Seminary Saint Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Nis; protopresbyter-staurophors Miodrag Pavlovic, Borislav Stamenkovic and Vladica…

Despite the fact that we are still facing problems from COVID-19, with the help of God and the intercessions of St. Nicholas, the feast of his memory was celebrated again this year at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Seoul. On Saturday, December 5, the Metropolitan of Korea Ambrosios, presided over the Great Vespers and…

Romanian police have identified 12 psychoactive substances on the Romanian drug market, which continues unabated throughout the pandemic. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is fighting the increasing drug problem, and the Orthodox Church is also taking an active part in these efforts. Studies show that those who turn to the Church and those who have…