From the book, “Thoughts for Each Day of the Year”, St. Theophan the Recluse: Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee Luke 18: 10-14 Yesterday the Gospel reading taught us persistence in prayer, and now it teaches humility, or the feeling…
Today the Church commemorates an important event in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days after His birth the God-Infant was taken to the Jerusalem Temple, the center of the nation’s religious life. According to…
Irenic & Official visit of His Beatitude Patriarch JOHN X to the Serbian Orthodox Church From October 11th to 19th, 2018 BELGRADE – 19th of October 2018 – This historical visit, the first since Antiochian Orthodox Patriarch THEODOSIOS VI (Abou-Rjaili)…
The Holy Synod of Antioch met in Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchal Monastery,Lebanon, (October 3-6, 2018) and made the following statement: The fathers examined the general orthodox situation. They stressed that the Church of Antioch expresses Her deep worries about…
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we celebrate this blessed Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, “in radiant joy with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs together with the angels and the apostles,” we give thanks to God…
