Professor Maria Kazamia, Professor, has fallen asleep in the Lord
The funeral service will be chanted on Saturday 10/9 at 16.oo at the Church of St. Photios in Thessaloniki
Saint Kosmas the Aetolian: Mission and education
The way and the way for the resurrection -both mainly the spiritual but also the economic and cultural resurrection- of a “third world” country was shown by St. Cosmas the Apostle…
“I was hungry and you gave me food”
We are in one of the poorest nations on the planet, recovering from a long and barbaric civil war, a deadly Ebola epidemic and devastating floods. Therefore, the obligation to feed the poor becomes an imperative in the practical theology of our mission…
Saints Olga and Vladimir, the Enlighteners of the Russians
Vladimir did not rest in idols, in the power murders he committed and in the obscenities he fell into with the hundreds of concubines he had, just as a man who knows the law of God does not rest in a life of sin. He was tormented, in a good sense, by the truth his grandmother taught him! On the other hand, he wanted, free spirit that he was, to examine and learn about the religions of the neighbouring countries of his empire…
Mission: The consequence of Pentecost
In this fiery way, all nationalistic and linguistic barriers were broken down and it was proclaimed that the horizon of Christian preaching was not Judea, but the whole world. The event of Pentecost reveals in a magnificent way the ecumenical character of the Church…
A human story, full of God
One morning on an August Sunday, we were waiting at our Mission Centre for a priest from Sierra Leone who had brought his Elder, who was suffering from the incurable disease in various parts of her body, to Ghana for health reasons. Father Alexander, that morning came alone because his Elder was in the hospital….
June 2016 issue (#233)
Issue 233
June 2016
Lecture on the Mission in Uganda by Metropolitan Iona
Sunday 12 June, 10.30 a.m.
in the hall of the Brotherhood
From Gabon to the Congo jungle
At this gathering, the holy relic of Saint Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol, was venerated, which we brought with us for the blessing of the faithful. At the end, we offered everyone the French version of the Divine Liturgy of St. Chrysostom…
Floods of temptations and blessings
At one point I decided to cross the road in the jeep, but I was in danger of being swept away by the current. A sea fell on the car and the cabin filled with water…
