I saw this headline the other day and thought how common this view is today. The story was about the many people who find themselves in Church on Easter and Christmas and other times who are not real belivers. They say they go, “Just in case God is Real.” It seems there are so many Orthodox Christians who appear to …

In order to better serve the Orthodox Faithful of Oceania and their communities and parishes, Mode of Life Project offers this space upon its website for notifying people of fundraisers and events. AUSTRALIA Australian Capital Territory   New South Wales   Victoria & Tasmania 26th August 2018: Exploring Orthodoxy Conference A day to explore Orthodox Christian spirituality Sunday 26th August …

SACRED METROPOLIS OF NAFPAKTOS AND SAINT VLASIOS Nafpaktos, February 17, 2016 To: The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Church of Greece Ioannou Gennadiou 14 115 21 Athens Your Beatitude, President of the Synod, The Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches (March 6-9, 2014) decided to set up a Special Inter-Orthodox Commission, consisting of one bishop and one …

Dear Friends of Saint George Taybeh, Today is such a big day in Greece (my birthplace) that I must wish all of my Greek friends a Happy Greek Independence Day and its an even bigger day for Orthodoxy to wish everyone a blessed Holy Annunciation celebration. For our many friends across the world who are celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord, please accept our sincere …

  The following text is a translation done by Matushka Constantina of a homily by the late Abbess Macrina of the Holy Monastery of Panayia Odigitria in Volos, Greece. The translated text is taken from a passage in Λόγια Καρδίας (pp. 246-250), which has a collection of homilies by Abbess Macrina, and is only available in Greek at present. The …

Dear Friends of Saint George Taybeh, I pray and hope all of you will have a blessed Holy Great Lenten journey filled with many fruits of the Holy Spirit. I started the Holy Great Lenten Journey in the best possible manner on Clean Monday lighting candles at the 4th century ruins of St George and staring down at the Jordan …

Violence is not limited only to wars, battles, military operations, killing, expulsions… it is also when the law of love is not put into practice with regard to those who need our assistance. By Fr Georges Massouh “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God” (Matthew 5:9). We can say without any hesitation that this …

DEAN KALIMNIOU 19 February 2016 Our august prime minister, while on a visit to the planetarch, snuck in a reference to classical Greek historian Thucydides. It is not the first time our classically-minded leader has done so. A month or so before, he quoted Thucydides to the prime minster of Malaysia and the prime minister of China. As far back …

Observations on the text: “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World” Professor of the Theological School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dr. Dimitrios Tselengidis has sent his first theological observations to the Orthodox hierarchs of several Local Orthodox Churches (including those of Greece, Russia, Serbia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Alexandria, and Antioch) concerning the text: “Relations …

(Jesus Said): “Truly”, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you…For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed” (John 6:53, 55). When we receive Holy Eucharist (Thanksgiving), we are receiving Jesus Himself. This tangible experience and action allows us the …