His Eminence is being buried at the Zhirovichi-Holy Dormition Monastery today, which was renewed thanks to Met. Philaret during the difficult times of soviet rule.
Speaking at trapeza on the great feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, Elder Parthenius, the abbot of St. Paul’s Monastery on Mt. Athos, spoke about a prayer against the coronavirus that he reads at the end of his prayer rule.
Priest John Kazadoev
People tend to consolidate in difficult life conditions—this bears fruit since the center of unity is Christ.
Several Orthodox churches were damaged or completely destroyed in a 6.4 earthquake that rocked Croatia on Tuesday.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople’s “Orthodox Manila” Facebook page is circulating a sponsored ad, declaring any Orthodox in the Philippines not under Constantinople to be non-canonical.
Yesterday, Fr. Ioannis, who was previously a fervent supporter of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, published a video explaining why he changed jurisdictions.
We invite you to take some time and virtually immerse yourself in the rich traditions of this holy and ancient land.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople’s senior-most priest and only hieromonk serving in the Philippines has come under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.
On December 21, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Sofia and All Bulgaria, the rite of monastic tonsure was celebrated at the Holy Savior Convent in Lozen, just outside of the capital city of Sofia.
An icon gifted to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his visit to Bosnia earlier this month was not stolen from Ukraine, the office of Bosnia’s Serb leader Milorad Dodik said on Tuesday.
New Valaam Monastery in Heinävesi, Finland was awarded the “Sprout of Responsibility” honorary prize from the Finnish branch of the Forest Stewardship Council this year for its merits in ecological, social, and efficient forest management.
With the strict implementation of sanitary measures, up to 75 believers will be allowed to attend Liturgy in each church.
The Church of St. Elijah is the first canonical parish in the city since the 1990s, as the other churches were seized by Philaret Denisenko’s “Kiev Patriarchate” and the Uniate Greek Catholics.
Olga Orlova
Orthodox spouses have been praying to Sts. Joachim and Anna at Holy Conception Monastery for the gift of children for centuries.
Holy Orthodoxy continues to grow and spread in the Dominican Republic. On Saturday, December 19, the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was solemnly consecrated.
The monastery was established during the 15th century AD and is well-known for a number of reasons. For a start, it is an important spiritual center for the Russian Orthodox Church.
The 12 sites were selected based on their “outstanding heritage significance and cultural value” and the serious danger they are facing.
Monk Nikon of New Skete
Good and great deeds have no value in the eyes of God without humility. An ordinary but humble person, the head of a family, had incomparably greater boldness towards God than the priest who was considered to be more pious, more active and holier than his parishioners.
“What a sad sight!” Met. Luke laments. “On the one hand, captured churches, beaten people, altars and Holy Gifts thrown into the mud on the street, and on the other hand, comely elders smiling sweetly and talking about the universal love of God and the need for unity and spiritual peace. What is this? Is it cunning, or unwillingness to know the truth? Or is it a betrayal, clothed in the robes of obedience?”
Thanks to a new project from the Moscow Archives and the State Inspectorate for Real Estate, unique documents on a number of churches and chapels destroyed in Moscow in the 1920s and 30s are now available online.
