Dear friends of the Mission, By grace of our Lord, we came to Greece on July 5th in the company of three children from the orphanage of the Holy Archdiocese of New Zealand in Fiji, namely Moses, Basil and Gabriel, so that they can study in the Patmiot Ecclesiastical School, in order to learn the…
I believe that these words of St. John Chrysostom are more relevant and appropriate as regards the case of my departure from the New Zealand missionary sites and the Islands of the Southeast Pacific Ocean, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. I found myself in these places obeying the invitation of our Holy Church that was made…
As I grew up, I wondered, “Why are there so many churches that worship one God? What is the true church?” I heard Roman Catholics, Anglicans and some others professing faith in “one holy, catholic and apostolic church.” So I continued to pray to the Holy Mother of God to show me the way to the true Church…
We crossed Pepe’s foot with the piece of holy wood, which the Athonite brother Sava has, with the relic of the Holy Apostle Barnabas and the icons of the Virgin Mary, the Evangelist John the Theologian and other saints, saying their troparia. The next day Pepe came again, telling us that he was no longer in pain, and running down the steps of the courtyard…