As people across Romania are gripped by anxiety, hoping that the coronavirus doesn’t affect them, His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat invited a doctor to address believers following the Sunday Divine Liturgy on how to avoid the spread of the new virus. “Dear brothers and sisters, seeing the anxiety and the disorder, because such a…

On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, His Beatitude, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia visited the Archdiocese Headquarters. In his welcoming remarks, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America expressed his joy in welcoming the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Serbia and highlighted the spirit of cooperation between the Churches, especially in the United States. He also emphasized…

On Monday, March 2, 2020, the second day of the spiritual retreat of the family of the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology began with prayer. Then the series of spiritual talks continued with His Eminence Ephrem (Kyriakos), Metropolitan of Tripoli, Koura and their dependencies. Metropolitan Ephrem spoke on the most important spiritual and…

On Sunday, March 1, 2020, the family of the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology began the Forty-day Lenten journey with a spiritual retreat in the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchate. The retreat includes a series of spiritual talks which began with His Grace Qais Sadiq, Bishop of Erzurum, who gave a…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released his Encyclical for this year’s Holy and Great Lent 2020. Read the full text below:   Holy and Great Lent 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released this year’s Encyclical for Sunday of Orthodoxy. Read the full text below:   Sunday of Orthodoxy 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon…

True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred and banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betrayal of vows. So, let your mind fast from vain thoughts; let your memory fast from remembering evil; let your will fast from evil desire; let your eyes fast from bad sights. True fasting means…

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  The online magazine Pemptousia this week includes a feature on the Metropolitan of Patras, His Eminence Chrysostomos, who speaks on the life and pastoral works of reposed Elder Gervasios Paraskevopoulos, as well as the proposal before the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the reposed Father’s beatification.