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...
Author: Fr. Peter
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...
Sunday of the Last Judgment
The foregoing two parables — especially that of the Prodigal Son — have presented to us God’s extreme goodness and love for man. But lest cert...
27 February ~ St. Raphael of Brooklyn
St. Raphael (Hawaweeny), the first Orthodox bishop consecrated in the New World, was born in Beirut, on or near the Synaxis of the Archangels, November 8, 1860,...
Saturday of the Souls
Each year, before the start of the Great Lent, we commemorate the dead on the Saturday of the Souls. This is the day that all of the names of those who ha...