Articles tagged: church-life
Delegação Eclesiástica da Grécia reuni-se com o Patriarca e Hierarcas da Igreja da Geórgia
As reuniões focaram na resposta da Igreja da Geórgia ao Sínodo de Creta [For Porteguese Speakers]
Εκκλησιαστική Αντιπροσωπεία από την Ελλάδα συναντήθηκε με τον Πατριάρχη και Ιεράρχες της Εκκλησίας της Γεωργίας
Στο επίκεντρο των συναντήσεων ήταν η επίσημη απάντηση της Εκκλησίας της Γεωργίας στη Σύνοδο της Κρήτης [For Greek Speakers]
ЦРКВЕНА ДЕЛЕГАЦИЈА ИЗ ГРЧКЕ У ПОСЕТИ ПАТРИЈАРХУ И АРХИЈЕРЕЈИМА ГРУЗИЈСКЕ ЦРКВЕ
Главна тема састанака је била реакција Грузијске Цркве на Критски сабор. (For Serbian Speakers]
Ecclesiastical Delegation from Greece Meets Patriarch and Hierarchs of the Church of Georgia
Meetings Focused on the Church of Georgia's Response to the Synod in Crete [For English Speakers]
Harbinger of Storm or Passage to Calm? (On the Pan Orthodox Council)
An Antiochian Perspective on the “Holy and Great Council” [AUDIO]
June 18, 2016 Length: 16:51
Archpriest Patrick B. O'Grady offers an Antiochian perspective on the "Holy and Great Council" currently taking place in Crete. Fr. Patrick is the pastor of St Peter the Apostle Antiochian Orthodox Church in Pomona, California, and Associate Fellow of The Antiochian Orthodox Institute, La Verne, California. A pdf transcript is also provided.
Source: Ancient Faith Radio
“We decided not to go to Crete independently and according to conscience”
- Metropolitan Gabriel
June 1, 2016 the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church decided not to take part in the “Holy and Great Council” on Crete. The liberal Bulgarian media saw in it “the hand of Moscow.” Metropolitan Gabriel (Dinev) of Lochev reflects on what dogmatic considerations stood behind their decision and why it could not have been made under Moscow influence, how Bulgarians relate to Russians and...
Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow Will Not Come to the Pan Orthodox Council
Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to Primates and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches who have assembled in Crete
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent a message to the Primates and representative of Local Orthodox Churches who have assembled in the Island of Crete. Below is the full text of the message.
To His Holiness Bartholomew
Archbishop of Constantinople – the New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
To their Holinesses and Beatitudes the Primates of the Holy Churches of God
To archpastors, pastors, monastics and laity who have assembled on the Island of Crete
Your Holiness Patriarch...
Metropolitan Onufry: “This meeting already won’t be a Great and Holy Pan-Orthodox Council”
In this interview with the Synodal Information-Education Department of the UOC, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine answered questions about why the Russian Orthodox Church is not participating in the Pan-Orthodox Council which should begin its acts on June 19. He also expressed his view on whether the crisis of Council preparations will influence the situation of religious life in Ukraine and worldwide Orthodoxy.
—Your Beatitude, what was the final reason for the decision of the Russian Orthodox Church not to participate in the Council planned for the feast day of the Holy Trinity?
—Today the world is developing in a new format. Political and economic borders are gradually disappearing, which by themselves restricted...
The "Great and Holy" Council: An Analysis, Questions, and Impressions
A Letter to His Beatitude, Our Father Patriarch John X and the Members of the Holy Synod of Antioch regarding the Great Council
His Beatitude, Our FatherJohn X (Yazigi)
and Their Emminences, the Members of the Holy Synod of Antioch
the Patriarchal Center, Balamand
Our Father, Your Beatitude the Patriarch,
After asking for your blessing and prayers, I present you, as a child of the Orthodox Church in the Holy See of ...
Ο δρόμος προς την ιεροσύνη και την κατά Θεό βιοτή
- Γέροντας Νεκτάριος (Βιτάλης)
http://www.pemptousia.gr/video/gerontas-nektarios-...
Ο Αρχιμ. Νεκτάριος Βιτάλης, Ιερατικός Προϊστάμενος του Ιερού
Προσκυνήματος Αγίου Νεκταρίου Καμάριζας στο Λαύριο, σε αποκλειστική του
συνέντευξη στην «Πεμπτουσία», καταθέτει την πολυετή εμπειρία του βίου
του και των προσωπικών βιωμάτων του από τον άγιο του 20ού αιώνα άγιο
Νεκτάριο, Επίσκοπο Πενταπόλεως τον θαυματουργό.
On Nepsis and the Jesus Prayer
- St. Paisius Velichkovsky
"No one can stop the swirling of thoughts by anything except the constant Prayer of Jesus... This path of prayer is the swifter one to salvation than by means of the usual prayers....
"Πριν από τα ογδόντα μου χρόνια, πήγαινα συχνά στον Παράδεισο"
- Γέρων Εφραίμ Αριζόνας
Μακάριοι οι καθαροί τη καρδία, ότι αυτοί τον Θεόν όψονται. (Μτθ. 5,8) Μακάριοι όσοι έχουν καθαράν και αμόλυντον την καρδίαν, διότι αυτοί θα ίδουν τον Θεόν εις την δόξαν του.
"Μία φορά με πήρε ο Κύριος από το χέρι και μου έλεγε..."
Συνομιλήτρια: Πολλοί άνθρωποι περνούνε σκληρές δοκιμασίες, είτε από...