Orthodoxy in Madagascar II
Part B of the speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Madagascar on the Orthodox Mission in the hall of our Fraternity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_EYAEnF_xo
Part B of the speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Madagascar on the Orthodox Mission in the hall of our Fraternity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_EYAEnF_xo
Excerpts from the speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Madagascar on the Orthodox Mission in the hall of our Fraternity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH9Eee2aIa0
The young and smiling woman, who had been smiling until the Sunday Service, began to feel uneasy. And this discomfort turned into body twitching, unarticulated screams and falling to the ground before the consecrated water, before the final dive…
It is true that the writing of the Acts of the Apostles that Saint Luke left as a legacy to Christians and especially to missionary people is valuable. It not only informs us historically about the spread of the Gospel which was carried out in every – God-allowable – way and at every cost by the Apostles, but it makes the “Acts of the Apostles” a model and a missionary manual for all of us who are more or less active in this ministry…
Countries with great natural wealth but at the same time extremely poor. Not in the sense that the world gives to poverty, but in the ontological and spiritual sense. Places with hidden “treasures” in their bowels, but mourning in Truth and awareness…
The basic characteristic of a clergyman should be the spirit of sacrifice and not of inactivity. This means that the clergyman must sacrifice himself for the Church and not sacrifice the Church for himself. Keep your ears open for every contribution, wherever it comes from, because there is always something to learn from everyone…
September 2016 issue
We attach particular importance to the construction of Holy Churches, since for us Orthodox, along with the preaching of the holy Gospel, Divine Worship and even the Divine Liturgy is essential. The natives are simple people, with a strong religious feeling, and they are more impressed by the epiphany that the Orthodox Divine Worship offers than by the chattering and shouting of Christians of other denominations…
The prophet Jonah – whose name means “dove” – is found in the Old Testament book of the same name, not as the author of the book but as its protagonist. He was the son of Amathi and lived in the first half of the 8th century, at a time when Nineveh was in its…
The funeral service will be chanted on Saturday 10/9 at 16.oo at the Church of St. Photios in Thessaloniki