The all-respectful Holy and Great Friday dawns full of compunction. Liturgy is not celebrated on this day. In olden days the Presanctified Liturgy was performed, but the Church later deemed […]
Category: Catechisms and articles
Akathist
The Akathist Hymn (Ἀκάθιστος Ὕμνος, unseated hymn) is a hymn of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons […]
2nd Sunday of the Lend St. Gregory Palamas
On the second Sunday of Lent our Church commemorates St. Gregory Palamas, who played a leading role in the triumph of Orthodoxy at a very difficult time in its […]
1st Sunday of the fast. Sunday of Orthodoxy
(John. 1, 44-52) Orthodoxy is Christ Orthodoxy isn’t a philosophic system or religion that forces us to suffer hardships, to be disciplined, or that has a list […]
Meatfare Sunday
(Matt. 25, 31-46) Before the criteria of God Today is Judgment Sunday, and in order for us to be prepared, our Church calls us to think of everything […]
Sunday of Zacchaeus
The Son and Logos of God had one basic aim, namely the salvation of mankind. Man wandered far from the true knowledge of God and was anxious to find […]
Sunday of the Ten Lepers. 12th Sunday of St Luke
(Luke 17:12-19) Leprosy in the past was considered an incurable illness which was vanished from Europe only during the last decades of the 20th century. Death was slow […]
Sunday after Epiphany
(His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon, as the first Bishop of Ghana (West Africa, 1999-2004) celebrating the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Holy Apostles at the village Larteh of Central […]
Epiphany
Today the Sun of Righteousness Sheds His Rays Upon the Whole Inhabited World Upon Galilee of the Gentiles, upon the land of Zebulon and the land of Nepthali, as the […]
The custom of the New Year’s cake known as Saint Basel’s pie or Vassilopita in Greece
In the years of emperor Julian the Paravatis, when Byzantium declared war on Persia, Julian passed through Caesarea with his army. He then ordered the whole province […]