A recent statement by a member of the government in Priština concerning plans to demolish a Serbian Orthodox church in that town has caused reactions. The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Eparchy of Raška and Prizren called on Tuesday Dardan Gashi’s pronouncement “an open provocation.” The Kosovo Albanian official, in charge of spatial planning, was on Monday quoted as saying by …

A Homily on the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ   By St Justin Popovich Man sentenced God to death; by His Resurrection, He sentenced man to immortality. In return for a beating, He gives an embrace; for abuse, a blessing; for death, immortality. Man never showed so much hate for God as when he crucified Him; and God never …

  A little before midnight on the Blessed Sabbath the Nocturne service is chanted. The celebrant goes to the tomb and removes the winding-sheet. He carries it through the royal doors and places it on the altar table where it remains for forty days until the day of Ascension. At midnight the Paschal procession begins. The people leave the church building singing: …

STYLIANOS By the grace of God Archbishop of Australia To all the Reverend Clergy and devout faithful of our Holy Archdiocese   Brother concelebrants and beloved children of the Church, “Pascha, the sacred feast, today shines forth for us Pascha that has opened the doors of Paradise to us Pascha that sanctifies all faithful”. These three concise verses of the …

IRINEJ By The Grace of God Bishop of The Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand of The Serbian Orthodox Church   Beloved monastics, clergy, all sons and daughters, faithful spiritual children of our Holy Church in Australia and New Zealand, from a paternal heart overflowing with Paschal joy, We greet all of you on this great and most radiant Feast …

Metropolitan George (Khodr) of Mount Lebanon 19 April 2014 How should I conduct myself at Pascha? I try to become the Gospel, to become the word so that people may read me and live. How should I conduct myself at Pascha? If the word means passing over, then there’s nothing left for me except to leave everything to meet Christ. …

By Photios Kontoglou The faith of a Christian is tested by the Resurrection of Christ like gold in a furnace. Out of the entire Gospel, the Resurrection of Christ is the most unbelievable thing, totally inadmissible by our logic and a true cause of its suffering. Because it is something totally unbelievable, for this reason it requires all of our …

By Photios Kontoglou On Pascha [Easter] Monday, in the evening after midnight, before lying down to sleep, I went out into the little garden behind my house. The sky was dark and covered with stars. I seemed to see it for the first time, and a distant psalmody seemed to descend from it. My lips murmured, very softly: “Exalt ye …

Mary Bakopoulos will continue to fight her case with the help of the Archdiocese 15 Apr 2014 HELEN VELISSARIS “I’m very disappointed with this. I’m not giving up, I’m determined to explore my options,” a passionate Mary Bakopoulos told Neos Kosmos this week. After The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) denied giving a ruling on the discrimination case she …

By Photios Kontoglou Those simplistic people, those illiterate old men and old women, who during Lent and Holy Week can be found all day in church, lived out their younger years in the education and admonition of the Lord, and understood the joy-giving mourning, which has not been understood, alas, by our scholars, who wanted to teach them, rather than …