Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Last night started the Lenten observance of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. This is one of the most ancient Liturgies in the Orthodox Church and I...
Author: Fr. Peter
Great Lent
I will admit, I love this time of the year. I am not sure it is becasue I think the services of this time of the church year are the most beautiful or bec...
Clean Monday
Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρή Δευτέρα), also known as Pure Monday, or (in Cyprus only) Green Monday, is the first day of the Orthodox Christian Great Lent. It is ...
Lenten Message of His Grace +NIKON
To the Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of New England and the Albanian Archdiocese If ever there was a winter to make us weary, this has been it. In all of t...
Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah for Great Lent 2011
To the Hierarchs, Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America Dearly Beloved in the Lord: The beginning of anoth...
Ecumenical Patriarch’s Encyclical on our Entry into Great Lent
+ BARTHOLOMEW By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church Grace and Peace from our Lord and Sav...
Forgiveness Sunday
Forgiveness Sunday, also called Cheesefare Sunday, is the final day of pre-Lent. It is the Sunday after Meatfare Sunday and the Sunday before the Sunday of Orth...
IOCC Supports Earthquake Relief Efforts Of The Greek Archdiocese Of New Zealand
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As survivors begin to piece back their lives in the New Zealand city of Christchurch following a 6.3 magnitude quake that struck on Febru...
Top Posts for February 2011
Here are the top ten posts for February 2011 Email Roman Catholic and Orthodox Differences on Original Sin Saturday of the Souls Parastas (Paos) Service Cremati...
28 February ~ St. John Cassian
Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Cassian was a 4th/5th century monastic saint known for his writings on the monastic life and for correctives of the an...