Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “Courage! It is I, do not be afraid” (Matthew 14:22-34). The spiritual as well as the material supper with which Christ had fed the multitudes who had followed Him was over. Five thousand men (not counting women and children) …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “And they did all eat, and were filled and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full” (Matthew 14:14-22). Matthew starts the fourteenth chapter of his Gospel narrative, with one of the saddest historical events …
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP STYLIANOS Dear Brothers and Sisters, In commencing the Proceedings of our 11th Clergy-Laity Congress, we first of all offer a heartfelt doxology to God who is praised in Trinity, for enabling us all to meet together once again, in order to make a common evaluation and analysis of our Church matters in general. Following …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “Jesus said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, my son, your sins are forgiven’”. (Matthew 9:1-8) Our modern era, dearly beloved, has been characterised as the atomic age, the era of splitting the atom. I think we will all agree that, …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “For I bear them record that they have zeal of God, but not according to knowledge”. (Romans 10:1-10) Dear brethren, today is the Fifth Sunday of Matthew. One Sunday prepares for the next. Time passes as explicitly as the …
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The first bilingual Greek Day School in Australia, established in 1979 in Melbourne, announced the appointment of the new board (Date: 25 Jul 2013 Source: http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/new-board-at-st-john-greek-orthodox-college) St John’s Greek Orthodox College has elected its new board of directors. The first bilingual Greek Day School in Australia, established in 1979 in Carlton, Melbourne, announced the appointment of the new board, with …
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The Episcopal Assembly of Oceania solemnly marked the 1,700th Anniversary of the issuance of the Edict of Milan by the Roman Emperor St Constantine the Great in 313 AD with the Pan-Orthodox celebration of Great Vespers for Feast of Sts Constantine and Helen on Monday evening, 20 May 2013. This special Inter-Orthodox commemoration was hosted by the Greek Orthodox Church of …
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“We are indifferent, slothful and complacent when it comes to maintaining our privileges but when faced with adversity, the Greek community invariably rises to the occasion“. Every year, our Good Friday Epitaphios procession, which winds itself before the looming sinisterness of the Moonee Ponds branch of the Tax Office, past the local Safeway into the street behind the church, is, unbeknownst to many …
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Author: Stella Tzobanakis Published: Brimbank Leader Newspaper, 28 May 2013 (Syndicated in Herald-Sun Newspaper – 28 May 2013) A CENTURIES old religious tradition was cut short because a Sunshine church could not afford a hefty council bill. The annual night-time Good Friday procession on May 3 at St Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Church in Armstrong St was shorter than usual because …
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EASTER MESSAGE 2013 GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA STYLIANOS By the grace of God Archbishop of Australia to all the Reverend Clergy and devout faithful of our holy Archdiocese Brother concelebrants and “illumined children of the Church”, Once again, the grace of God, who is All-Good, has enabled us this year also to reach Holy and Great Lent and prayerfully …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.