What does slave mean? Just a name. How many masters are lying on the mattress and getting drunk, while the slaves are standing close by, awake! Who shall I call a slave? He who is sober or he who is drunk? The slave of man or the captive of passion? He has bondage outside, he walks about with captivity inside…
Special event for the mission of the Orthodox Church to the Mayan descendants in Guatemala. Lecture by the Metropolitan of Mexico on Sunday 19/2 at 11 am.
When I decided to come to India, to the Orthodox Church orphanage in Kolkata and announced it to friends, they all asked me the same question: “And where will you spend Christmas? Will you at least have someone of your own there?” I replied, “Yes, I will have my aunt, Sister Nectaria”!
The Holy Metropolis of Mexico, with His Eminence Archbishop Athenagoras of Mexico as Archbishop, has been struggling for the last twenty years in Central America for the dissemination of the true Orthodox Christian faith. The beginning of this course was characterized by slow steps, but then there was a great response from the local population…
The orphanage in the capital Antananarivo is now finished. It is expected to house over two hundred orphans. But the costs of feeding, medical care and providing education are expected to be very high. If we do not support the project, unfortunately the operation of the orphanage will continue to be suspended. Nevertheless, it is still one of the largest orphanages in the country, and even the state authorities are anxiously awaiting the implementation of the promises of our Orthodox Church towards our poor people…
We assure you that this spiritual investment for the education of the African youth of our Metropolis, giving them the opportunity to continue their studies, has borne fruit, educated children!
The situation in Indonesia is not good, because Muslim fanatics have risen up and want to implement sharia law throughout Indonesia. People do not want them because we have many tribes and religions here. They have done too many attacks, they have burned churches, they have bombed Christian properties…
Another presence of Orthodoxy in distant Oceania. The cross of the Lord adorns and sanctifies the breasts, the place and the homes of our newly converted brothers and sisters. The bell of the Holy Apostles is small but its sound, sweet, joyful and moving, spreads as the voice of the Church across the length and breadth of the vast Pacific, inviting every unconverted person to come to the source of truth and life: “Come, all nations know the power of the terrible mystery…”
Saint Candock was born in Monmouthshire, Wales, in the late 5th century AD and came from a noble family. His parents, although of royal descent and economically and socially established, became monks, followed an ascetic life and are honoured by the Church as Saints. Both his mother and his spiritual father, the hermit priest Tathan, supported and guided him in his life in Christ. The Saint refused the earthly glories and titles offered to him by the world, as the child of illustrious parents, and devoted himself to spreading the Gospel to the nations, as a child of the Lord Jesus Christ…
We threw the Holy Cross into the waters of the Congo River, into the waters of our own Jordan. We see both in the Congo River and in the Jordan River how the building takes life from the waters and how they travel at the same time…
