Orthodoxy in Madagascar
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
What is God great as our God?
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…
The Evangelist Luke and the Missionary Handbook
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…
The Apostolic Diamonds in the Land of Diamonds
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…
To keep the light from going out
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 (#234)
September 2016 issue
An Orthodox Church for the Tonga Islands
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: mission and prophecy
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…
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…
