Dear friends of the Mission, By grace of our Lord, we came to Greece on July 5th in the company of three children from the orphanage of the Holy Archdiocese of New Zealand in Fiji, namely Moses, Basil and Gabriel, so that they can study in the Patmiot Ecclesiastical School, in order to learn the…
By the Grace of God and the blessings of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the annual Clergy Seminar was held once again at the Holy Metropolis of Accra. Our priests from the countries included in our Metropolis, mainly from Ghana and Ivory Coast, had the opportunity to come…
«…Αnd when He divided the tongues of fire, He called all men into unity; and with one accord we glorify the All‐holy Spirit.» This hymn sounds like a sweet caress that brings back childhood memories, somewhere in our homeland, in the small picturesque chapel or in the beauteous parish church, but always in the One…
In the morning you see a child playing joyfully with other children, and in the evening you find out that the same child has died of a high fever. Many times poor indigenous people have no money to go to the doctor or buy the medication required to save their children, and they end up…
Dear Friends of Mission, Like every week and throughout the year, I travel a lot, going on pastoral journeys from the one end of Kenya to the other. Besides the divine liturgies, which are conducted without fail in proper or makeshift churches, we visit our orphanages and of course, all our schools, Kindergartens as well…
By the Grace of God, one hundred and ten people have been incorporated into our Holy Orthodox Church. Before converting to Orthodoxy, they belonged either to other Christian denominations or to traditional African religions of Kananga, Congo. On Holy Saturday morning, the hymn» As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put…
Everytime I listen the objection “But is this what the Mission stands for? Charities?” –and it is not rare–, I fee like something cracks inside me, something like what we vaguely call “the conscience”, which we, monks, willingly put to martyrdom. It is actually an act of martyrdom not to respond hotly to this question….
A poem dedicated to the 15 years of patriarchate of His Beatitude Pope Theodore II of Alexandria
It was after the Blessing Service that we conducted for the new borehole drilled in Sasha Mambo village just outside the National Park of Ruaha when we were approached by the village President, who was holding a piece of paper. We are used to the whole ritual since every time after a charitable activity of…
On July 12, at the church under construction, the first Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was held on the day our Church commemorates the memory of Holy Elder Paisios. It was at the crack of dawn that we left our Mission Center in Kindamali, Iringa, in order to arrive at the unfinished church early enough to make the necessary preparations for the Divine Liturgy. Despite the adverse weather conditions and the low temperature (3 degrees Celsius due to the winter season), the faithful came to the Divine Liturgy to honor the Holy Elder…
