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…
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 2016Lecture on the Mission in Uganda by Metropolitan Iona
Sunday 12 June, 10.30 a.m.
in the hall of the BrotherhoodFrom 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…
