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 …

16 Apr 2014 DEAN KALIMNIOU “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that, He …

23 Apr 2014 PENNI PAPPAS Prokopios Kanavas, former Bishop of St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Adelaide, and Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia (GOCSA), has resigned. The resignation follows three attempts to quit this position that weren’t accepted by the GOCSA. Yet Friday nights resignation was final and now, Mr Kanavas is no longer serving the …

By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News This Palm Sunday in Palestine, Fatah Central Committee Member Nabeel Shaath, the Governor of Jerusalem Adnan Husseini, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal and the bishop of Palestine William Shomali participated in the annual procession to the Old City of Jerusalem, which marks the beginning of the Christian Holy Week …

The Church Fathers have much to say about how we should approach Great Lent and Holy Week in all its aspects – fasting, prayer, our actions. They recognise that simply going through the motions of abstaining from certain kinds of foods while not paying attention to how we live our lives amounts to following the letter of the law, not …