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Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church 27 June 2016 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit With a hymn of thanksgiving, we praise and worship God in Trinity, who has enabled us to gather together during the days of the feast o...
The main reason for ecclesiastical journalism, the quest, its starting-points and the methodological consequences of this quest. 27 June 2016 Ionel Ungureanu, Lecturer professor (moral and social theology) at the faculty of Theology in University of Craiova...
Grace will gradually come to you Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 27 June 2016 Grace will visit you gradually. You’ll enter into joy. You’ll begin to live in peace, and then you’ll become stronger by God’s grace. You won’t get angry. You won’t lose your temper, you won’t get ups...
The Gospel Reading at the Marriage Service: A hermeneutical approach. Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. 27 June 2016 The Gospel extract which is read at the sacrament of marriage is John 2, 1-11 (the miracle of the transformation of water into wine). Why did the Church choose this particular excerpt, when the Gospel...
The Church without Saints isn’t the Church – 1 Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis of the Ecumenical Throne 27 June 2016 Archimandrite Hrysostomos Papadakis I would like to express my warmest thanks to Archimandrite Ieronymos Nikolopoulos, Chief Secretary to the Holy Synod and Parish Priest of this church, for his kin...
The Holy and Great Council concludes its work 26 June 2016    June 26, 2016 The Holy and Great Council held its concluding session on the 25th of June 2016, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete.  The work of the Council had commenced with the Patriarchal Conce...
They’re always quarrelling Saint Paisios the Athonite 26 June 2016 When people quarrel among themselves, they all say they’re right but they appropriate more of the right than they’ve any right to, which is why they’re forever quarrelling. ...
The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments 25 June 2016 SYNAXIS OF THE PRIMATES OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES  Chambésy, 21-28 January 2016 THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE AND ITS IMPEDIMENTS DECISION ** This document was not signed by the Patriarchates of Anti...
Metropolitan Paul of Aleppo to all the Orthodox Hierarchs: “My chains, the bond of our unity” Paul, Metropolitan of Aleppo 25 June 2016 Buenos Aires, June 24, 2016 An open letter from METROPOLITAN PAUL of ALEPPO addressed to all the Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church on the Feast of the Holy Spirit My chains, the bond of our unity ...
Faith is a matter of the heart Nikolaos Metropolitan of Mesogaias and Lavreotikis 25 June 2016 Some years ago a young student came up to me. Very hesitantly, but with the intensity of demanding an answer, he told me he was an atheist and, though he would very much like to believe, he couldn’t. ...
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