Mission Pastorate
A poem dedicated to the 15 years of patriarchate of His Beatitude Pope Theodore II of Alexandria
Is anyone here a doctor?
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…
The Feast of Saint Paisios in Arusha
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…
Our Dreams for the Future
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Greetings in the Lord from faraway Uganda and the Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda. With the help of God and the blessings of His Beatitude, we strive to establish a Coordination Center in the newly established Diocese of Gulu of Eastern and Northern Uganda, so that the work…
Greek Orthodox Priest in Jamaica
On July 16, 2019, with the blessings of His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Mexico and Central America, I left the USA on secondment from the Metropolis of New Jersey, and at my own expense, I landed in Jamaica to explore the possibility of establishing and developing the Orthodox Mission in this country under the regular…
Mission in Madagascar
On a downhill road we met a family that was crushing stones into gravel… All its members were working… The grandfather, the grandmother, the son, the daughter-in-law… The latter, named Tajine, had her baby in a basket next to her… It was just one month old and was sleeping despite the hammerings. One meter away was her four-year-old son Michael. He also had a hammer and was breaking stones!…
Bishop Nectarios Kellis of Madagascar
Fifteen years! Five thousand four hundred and seventy-five days! Countless hours, numberless minutes, an ocean of seconds; and yet, all this time, all this measurement with its subdivisions, which is desperately trying to put some order in the chaotic space between events is an act so subjective! The fluid time itself, as the Holy Fathers…
Embracing orphans in Kolkata
When one first sets foot in Calcutta, one seems to have been transported to another planet, to a parallel universe. It is not just the appalling poverty that is present all around; it is not the heaps of garbage that are spread everywhere; it is not the crowds of people of all ages that are…
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Glory to God for all things
I believe that these words of St. John Chrysostom are more relevant and appropriate as regards the case of my departure from the New Zealand missionary sites and the Islands of the Southeast Pacific Ocean, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. I found myself in these places obeying the invitation of our Holy Church that was made…
The Orthodox Present in South Madagascar
The vigilant concern of His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria Theodore II for the flock of the African continent led the Holy Synod of the Ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria to the partition of the Metropolis of Madagascar and to the establishment of the Holy Diocese of Toliara and South Madagascar with my unworthiness as…
Till the ground
Dear brothers in Christ, Christ is Risen! I hereby express my warm thanks to your Fraternity for the kind reaction to our application for the purchase of a 3,500-euros tractor destroyer, which is necessary for the cultivation of the farms of our Holy Apostles monastery. In these farms, we grow several vegetables and trees that…
School Rooftop
Dear brothers in Christ and partners in the great work of spreading Orthodoxy, I am aware of your interest and love for the newly established Diocese of Malawi and I would like to thank you wholeheartedly for the continued support of your Fraternity in the difficult task that the Alexandrian Church has assigned me. Since…
