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Orthodox Priest killed in Syria while giving medical aid

Orthodox Priest killed in Syria while giving medical aid

On January 25, 2012 Greek Orthodox Hieromonk Basilios Nassar was shot by an armed terrorist group in Hama, Syria on the second day of heavy fighting there. Fr. Basilios was at the Metropolis when he was informed by a phone call that a parishioner of his was shot and needed [...]

January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Christ in an American Prison

Christ in an American Prison

This icon of Saint Anthony is the work of an American monastic named Anthony. The unique situation of Anthony is that he does not live in a monastery, but in a Maximum Security Prison in Colorado.

Anthony has never entered an Orthodox church, nor has he attended “live” [...]

January 18, 2012 | 0 Comments More
An Orthodox look at Nostradamus

An Orthodox look at Nostradamus

The word of God gives us very precise warnings about self-proclaimed prophets and spiritual deceivers. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Mt. 7:15). We have to follow the Lord’s injunction: “Take heed that no man deceive you” (Mt. 24:4). [...]

January 18, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Confession of Sins in the Bible and Beyond

Confession of Sins in the Bible and Beyond

Confession of sins is very much a part of Biblical Faith and especially Biblical Christianity, and was closely related to the worship of the True God. From the Old Testament on, it is clear that men should confess their sins, and this practice, though often neglected and denigrated by scoffers, [...]

January 16, 2012 | 0 Comments More
The Holy Mountain: A place with Ecumenical coordinates and a heavenly orientation

The Holy Mountain: A place with Ecumenical coordinates and a heavenly orientation

The higher one climbs, the more—we are told by scientists—gravity weakens; the less one can feel earth’s pull, the more one’s ties to earth are loosened; it becomes so much easier for one to depart from earth’s demanding and contending presence. [...]

January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments More
What Orthodox Iconography is…

What Orthodox Iconography is…

“Be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind … ” (Rom. xii.2)

The religion of Christ is the revelation, by Him, of the truth. And this truth is the knowledge of the true God and of the spiritual world. [...]

December 28, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Patriarchal Christmas Encyclical 2011

Patriarchal Christmas Encyclical 2011

Dec 20, 2011

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

Prot. No. 1192

+ B A R T H O L O M E W

By the Mercy of God

Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch

To the Plenitude of the Church


Grace, [...]

December 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Christmas Encyclical 2011

Christmas Encyclical 2011

Christmas Encyclical

of His Eminence Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

To the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Members of the Parishes

of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

and the entire Orthodox Family in South [...]

December 19, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Saint Nicholas Archbishop of Myra

Saint Nicholas Archbishop of Myra

Santa Claus is synonymous with the culture of Christmas, but before the common image of a fat man in read coat guzzling down Coca-Cola, he was a real man known as Saint Nicholas of Myra. He taught the Gospel simply, so ordinary people understood, and he lived out his faith and devotion to [...]

December 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

St. Nicholas of Myra

Celebrated on December 6th

Troparion of Saint Nicholas

“The verity of your actions revealed you to your flock as a rule of faith, an icon of mildness, and a teacher of continence, O Father Bishop Nicholas; wherefore by humility you have achieved [...]

December 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More