A Drop in the Ocean
Watch video clips from the mission in Fiji and listen to His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilochio of New Zealand speak about it.
Easter message from Fiji
CHRISTIAN ANESTI “All joy is filled with the joy of the Resurrection by the telling of the word”. Joy everywhere, where the event of Christ’s Resurrection was felt. In simple and pure hearts that simply and without proof accept the truths and miracles of the Christian faith. So here, in Fiji, our simple Christians attended,…
Letter from Fiji full of hope
Christ, His Church, saves not only man’s soul but also his body. The whole man. That is why the Lord says in His Holy Gospel, “I have come and you have fed me, I have eaten and you have raised me…”
The mission takes root in Fiji
The winter season in Fiji is a cool spring. The extreme heat recedes and the cool breeze that blows day and night brings joy to visitors and residents alike. It begins in June and ends in August. Unlike New Zealand, which has the most rain and the coldest temperatures during this period. The loving God…
The Missionary Process in Fiji
My friends, I am writing to you from the beautiful islands of Fiji where I have been for two weeks now and will remain, God willing, until October, so that the mission to the tribes of the Pacific Islands can proceed. As I write to you sitting outside St. Friday’s Chapel here at our Fiji…
New secret joys of divine grace
By His grace and blessing since I have been in Fiji for about a month and a half, everything has changed for the better. The necessary improvements have been made to the chapel of Agia Paraskevi, the beautiful wooden iconostasis with the wonderful Holy Icons sent from Aspropyrgos has been installed and the sweet voice…
Missionary news from New Zealand
In New Zealand, efforts are intensifying to finish the monastery’s Church of the Immaculate Archangels with the adjacent chapel of St. Basil, in order to inaugurate the Holy Baptistery on April 30 and on the first of May the inauguration with the first Divine Liturgy. “Those who have been baptized into Christ, have received Christ”….
The first Orthodox Easter in South Fiji
The dream of hope has travelled to reality God’s blessing and God’s joy. Double the joys. In Fiji, Pacific Islands, the chapel of St. Friday in the courtyard of our Mission Center in Sabeto, Nadi is nearing completion. Despite the still existing shortcomings our small flock there deserved to attend the Holy Masses of Holy…
A historic day in Fiji
Wednesday 16 December 2009 Commemoration of the Holy Prophet Haggaios, Theophanos the Queen and Modestus Patriarch of Jerusalem. 8.00 a.m. The contractor and his crew get a blessing and start measuring and marking the foundation so that the next the building of St. Paraskevi, in the courtyard of the missionary centre in Sabeto, Nantes. What…
Thank you from Fiji
07-11-2009 In the capital of the glorious land of our Macedonia, the holy city of Thessaloniki, from where Alexander the Great began his civilizing work in Asia and the holy self-brother Apostles Cyril and Methodius began their missionary and educational work in the countries of the Slavic-speaking peoples of Europe, an Orthodox native from the…
A thrilling experience in Fiji
Everything looked good from the moment we boarded the catamaran and leaving behind us the port of Nantes, we started to approach one after the other the beautiful islands with white sandy beaches and wild tropical vegetation, until we reached Yasawa Ira Ira, the island of our newly-converted sister Sophronia. The boat was full of…
Missionary News from Fiji
By the grace and mercy of our Saviour and by the intercessions of His holy and glorious Apostles, whose holy assembly our holy Church celebrates today, I write to you from our missionary house to tell you: That with God’s help we celebrated the first consecration, the first I. Eucharist and the first Divine Liturgy….
