Author: Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg
Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday?
Let us begin with a bit of a dark picture. Nowhere in the Holy Scriptures are we told about a celebration commemorating the birth of Christ Jesus. Nothing in...
Religious movie stars - For some celebrities, this concept is not just a word
Many religions have their own mythologies, symbols and sacred stories designed to explain the meaning of life or the origin of...
The Archbishop of Athens, Hieronymus, appealed to all the clergy in the country to be close to each and every person, because without this their ministry becomes meaningless. In his speech today after the...
Written by archimandrite assoc. prof. Pavel Stefanov, Shumen University "Bishop Konstantin Preslavski" - Bulgaria
The sight of Jerusalem bathed in a dazzling spiritual light is exciting and unique. Situated among higher mountains on the banks...
From the letter of Saint Dionysius († 264), Bishop of Alexandria, about the times of persecution and the epidemic of the so-called Cyprian Plague. The disease, which struck the Roman Empire in the 3rd...
To help those wishing to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain
In recent years, there are more and more Orthodox Christians who wish to make a pilgrimage to various holy places around the world....
Author: St. Luka, archbishop of Simferopollis and Crimea
From the letters of St. Archbishop Luka Voyno-Yasenetsky to the priests of the Diocese of Simferopol and Crimea (June 6, 1952)
Be firm in your zeal for God's...
Written by Kalin Yanakiev
There is a unique paradox in the Orthodox iconography of the Mother of God - extremely difficult to articulate, though at the same time very clearly felt when we compare this...
Marriage is the union of a man and a woman established by God in Paradise (Gen. 2:18-24; Matt. 19:6). Church marriage is performed and sanctified by the sacrament of Marriage. According to the apostle...
King Herod the Great
None of the modern monarchs have any real power. In Great Britain, Elizabeth II and several other members of the royal family have formally led the state for half a century,...
How to explain to superstitious people that various signs have nothing to do with the Orthodox holiday?
The site www.pravmir.ru explains in a series of interviews of Oksana Golovko with Orthodox clergymen.
For some, the essence...
Author: Joseph, Metropolitan of the USA, Canada and Australia,
Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death
of Metropolitan Andrey of New York - August 9, 1972
A popular...
Globalization - the involvement of the peoples and states of the Earth in common economic, cultural, information, political processes - has become the main distinguishing feature of the new era. People clearly, as never...
On August 5, in the Vatican, Pope Francis met with Volokolamsk Metropolitan Antony, Chairman of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is the first personal meeting with a representative of...
"For life is more than food, and the body than clothing"
Gospel according to Luke chapter 12, verse 23
"Wellness" is an active process through which people understand and choose a better way of life; as...
Christianity exerts a political influence over a considerable part of humanity, affecting in a special way more than a quarter of the population of the earth. The history of the relationship between Christianity and...
By Prof. George Mantzaridis, Prof. Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christians have a general awareness of the need for the Church's participation in examining and solving social problems. This is natural, because the goal...
Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas
Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion
36. Since before the Cross it was impossible to find forgiveness of sins and deliverance...
Author: St. Gregory the Theologian
Reading the lower lines, one can hardly imagine that centuries separate us from the author. Some readers might exclaim, “Well, so nothing new under the sun! There have always been...
"Woe to you, because you shut up the kingdom of heaven from men" (Matt. 23:13). This is said to the bishops, who neither themselves teach the people the way of salvation, nor urge the...
The work of St. Gregory the Theologian For myself and for the bishops is one of the most censored patristic works, although it was created in the so-called "Golden Age" of the Orthodox Church...
Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas
Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion
1. The life in Christ is planted in this present life , begins here and...
Eunomians - 1. Against those who are so skilled in speeches is my word. And to begin from the Scripture: "I am against thee, O pride" (Jer. 50:31) - in teaching, in hearing and...
At the beginning of September, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop Hieronymus of Athens and Metropolitan Epiphanius (Dumenko) of Kyiv, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, will celebrate together the feast of the...
A huge fire broke out between two monasteries at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.
One of the most valuable monasteries of Athos - the Docheiariou monastery (Greek: Μονή Δοχειαρίου) , which has a very valuable library with hundreds of...