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The one, undivided Church is said to have begun on the day of Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection of Christ. Already by the 4th century the term "Orthodox Christian" was used to designate those Christians who remained faithful to the totality of the teaching of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, as opposed to those who were known as "heretics" who promoted false doctrines and beliefs. [The term "orthodox" means "correct believing" or “correct, true glory.”]. We believe that we are the continuation of the ancient, One, Holy, Catholic Orthodox Christian Church, and that we trace our history back to Christ and the Apostles.

Christ loves us in spite of our senseless behaviour.  He calls to us, is always ready to respond to our cries for help and guide our fragile steps through all the obstacles that lie in our path.  He respects us on a par with Himself.  His ultimate idea for us is to see us in eternity verily His equals, His friends and brothers, the sons of the Father.  He strives for this, He longs for it.  This is our Christ, and as Man He sat on the right hand of the Father. 

Miracle of the Holy Light in Jerusalem: Testimonies and Evidence

 

 

• Buried, or burned? 
• "Education Day” - in a world lacking education
• The Prayer Rope - thoughts by a Hagiorite Monk
• The Crisis in the Church of England and the attraction of the Orthodox Church
• The Apocalypse of Christmas
• The tradition of being human
• Playing with God
• The Cross within the Church
• Life-bearing Cross and death-bearing sin
• The meaning of Orthodoxy’s victory against the Iconomachy
• Examining the Synodicon of the 7th Ecumenical Council
• The Bridegroom and Judgment
• he Image-less Idol: How Iconoclasm leads to Idolatry
• Christ's "strange" and "cruel" words
• Modern Lent
• Distinguishing between the "created" and the "Uncreated" and the Theology of the Icon
• The Whole Adam
• Christianity, Nationalism, Racism
• Never leave the church after the Priest has proclaimed "CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD!"
• Divine Liturgy: participate, or attend?
• Pentecost and the Liturgy of Hades
• The Theotokos in Orthodox Worship
• Does the Church bless  Military Arms?
• I will go into the Altar of God
• A message of consolation and hope in difficult times
• Pandemics and Holy Communion
• The heretical depiction of "the holy family"
• Video:  "Basil the Great - the lion of Christ
• To cremate, or to not cremate?
• Cyril of Jerusalem - On prayer to the Holy Spirit
• Is there no repentance after death?
• When the Eucharist bread and wine become Body and Blood of Christ
• Entering Hell on Pentecost ... with prayer
• Apostolic Tradition and Apostolic Succession in the Mystery of the Church
• Patriarchal Encyclical for Holy Pascha 2019
• The Joy of Christ's Resurrection
• A Modern Lent
• Easter Message 2019
• Truth, Lies and Icons
• The true Body and Blood of Christ ?
• CATECHETICAL HOMILY At the Opening of Holy and Great Lent (2019)
• Distinguishing between the "created" and the "Uncreated" and the Theology of the Icon
• Unbelief and Good Friday
• Great Lent: The course towards Pascha
• True Christianity: The Soul's Journey
• Regarding the Church
• Differences between Eastern and Western Theology
• Basic Points of Difference between the Orthodox Church and Papism
• Curing the sickness of Pharisaism
• A Historical Overview of Heresies
• The successors to the Apostles
• The Authority of the Church
• Has the Church ever apostatized?
• The Church NEVER apostatized
• Ecclesiology: What is It? Why is It Important?
• Eucharist, Bishop, Church:  The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop
• Honoring the Most Holy Mother
• The brothers of Christ
• The Holy Mother and the “Undoubtedly, but”
• Confession in the ancient Church
• Can there be severe cases of “guruism” in the Orthodox realm?
• Confession - Confessor - Confessing
• The function of Spiritual Paternity
• On becoming and remaining an Orthodox Christian
• The Orthodox Church. Its Faith, Worship and Life (Book)
• Faith And Science In Orthodox Gnosiology and Methodology
• Palamism Explained in Twelve Minutes or Less
• Hesychasts and Zealots: Spiritual flourishing and social crisis in 14th century Byzantium
• Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith
• The Glorification of the Saints in the Orthodox Church
• Ancestral Versus Original Sin, an Overview with Implications for Psychotherapy
• Expiation, Blood & Atonement
• The road to Nicaea
• The oldest known prayer to the Theotokos
• From birth to baptism the glory of christmastide
• The fearsome legend of Krampus, the Christmas punisher 
• Get real for Lent
• How is the validity of the Councils determined?
• Does the Body of Christ vivify us during Holy Communion?
• Bookends and the Resurrection
• Menstruation and the Church
• Memorial Services in Ancient Israel
• Man and his Fall
• Saturday of Lazarus' return from the dead
• Demons: the apostate angels and their perpetual war against humankind

 

• The scandal of the Transfiguration
  The Mystery of the Touch of St. Thomas and the Empirical Theology of the Church
• Sacrifice and Worship
• “Christian” means “Wayfarer”
• The life of our Blessed Mother Maria of Egypt
• Christian Pascha after the Hebrew Passover is an "Orthodox Urban Legend"?
• Debunking claims of Conciliar Committee vote about homosexuality
• Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the Orthodox Church
• Fighting to keep Orthodoxy unadulterated, with... Orthodox weapons
• The Annunciation to the Theotokos
• The Primacy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
• Faith, Experience, and Theory
• Should One Kill Moles? Or, How to Avoid Falling Into Traps While Reading Contemporary Orthodox Literature
• The Synodikon of Orthodoxy
• Saint Nektarios : When the Church apologized
• "We have to return to our roots."
• The Plethora of "Elders" and the "Piety" of the Naive
• How Efthymios the Great brought Queen Evdokia back from the Antichalcedonians
• The ElderPaisios on Monophysites
• The meaning of "Anathema" in the Orthodox Church
• A Guide to the Triodion and Lent
• On the selection of a Spiritual Father
• Holy Tradition and the Bible
• Discourse On the Day of the Baptism of Christ
• Church Year : Epiphany
• Theophany
• Christian Chronology
• Is Christmas stolen from the Pagans?
• The "Invisible Church" theory
• Conciliar Proclamation against Religious Violence
• Relative or honorary veneration in the Holy Bible
• The Marian Necessity
• The Heresy of Racism
• Orthodox Hieromonk shot dead in terrorist crossfire in Syria
• Toll Houses: After Death Reality or Heresy?
• Holy Communion without...fasting?
• About building churches
• Sinners in the Church
• The "purity" of the Church
• Stages of Conversion
• What is the meaning of "Church"?
• «And the wife see that she reverence her husband»
• The Elder Paisios on the secularization of Monasticism
• The Orthodox Christian Temple
• On Pascha (Melito of Sardis)
• Is the teaching of the Orthodox Fathers of the Church Platonic?
• True Christianity: The soul's journey
• A contemporary manifestation of the Holy Trinity
• What is Liturgical Theology?
• The Synodicon of Orthodoxy
• Why Women Were Never Priests
• When the Fathers disagree
• Study finds more U.S. Orthodox Christian converts
• Christ is born!
• The pagan origins of Christmas?
• Why does God allow wicked Bishops?
• Orthodox Celtic Monks, the first in America?
• The Sign of the Cross
• Spiritual fishing: the labour of the Church
• Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
• Unravelling the Episcopal Assembly
• Apologetics: the basic concern of every faithful
• A Homily on the Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
• On the Feast of the Dormition
• The scandalmongers
• Pride of Place
• Scandals
• Frequent Reception of the Holy Mysteries is Beneficial and Salvific
• How should one be tested before becoming a monk, according to the Quinisext Synod?
• “Elderism”:  Spurious “Elders”
• Mindless Zeal
• Preaching the Gospel of Christ in the Modern World
• On Corrupt Bishops
• The Theological & Ecclesiastic significance of the electing of Patriarch of the Serbian Church
• Why did God become Man? The answer of St. Athanasios
• The 8th Ecumenical Council: Constantinople IV (879/880) and the Condemnation of the Filioque Addition and Doctrine
• The Ecclesiology of Saint Ignatius of Antioch
• Announcement by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece regarding the Dialogues with the Latins
• Metropolitan Seraphim of Ioannoupolis proposes the postponement of the Cyprus convention
• The letter by Bishop John Zizioulas of Pergamon to all Metropolitans of the Church of Greece
• Rev. Seraphim's letter on the Dialogue with the Latins in Cyprus
• Rev. Seraphim's response to  the Latin announcement regarding the Greek Elections
• Announcement by the Metropolitan Andrew of Konitsa regarding the Committee for the Dialogue with the Latins in Cyprus
• Are all Ecclesiastic Synods Valid/Infallible?
• The Synaxis of the Church
• Elder Paisios and Saint Efimia
• The Patriarch of Alexandria visits the Masai in Kenya
• A Confession of Faith against Ecumenism
• "Unity", "Division", "Reunion" in the light of Orthodox Ecclesiology
• The Paschal Homily
• The unity of the human person: The body-soul relationship in Orthodox Theology
• Thoughts about Freedom
• Who is the Truth ?
• Saturday of Lazarus
• Orthodox Ecclesiology in Outline
• Created Being
• On Women's Ordination
• On the Church
• Orthodoxy's Worship
• “Religion” or “Kingdom”?
• Philokalian distinction between Orthodoxy and heresy
• The Importance of Hesychasm in the history of the Roman nation
• The Community of the Desert and the Loneliness of the Cities
• The Holy Mountain:  A place with ecumenical coordinates and a celestial orientation
• Associating the Divine Eucharist to the Church
• Experiencing the Sacrament/Mystery of the Church through Baptism and the Eucharist
• Baptismal Theology
• Does everyone receive the Holy Spirit at Baptism?
• One Eucharist - One Bishop ιn Each Church
• The Emergence of the Parish
• The Appearance of the Parish and the Unity of the Church in "One Eucharist, Under the Leadership of the Bishop"
• General and specialized clergy
• The status of Priesthood in the officiators of the Lord’s Church
• Elucidating the ruling of the 39th Apostolic Canon
• The perennial honoring of saints by the Church
• Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs, 1848
• The Orthodox Creed
• Greek Protestants ask:  Why be Orthodox?
• Saint Benedictus
• «Christ is Risen!»
• What do we mean by “Fathers of the Church”?
• When, exactly, was Jesus Christ born?
• Is infant baptism permissible?
• The holy anarchists
• The Ascetic Ideal and the New Testament
• The Redemptive dialogue of Created and Uncreated within History
• The passing of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Christodoulos
• The enthronement speech of His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymos
• An introductory speech by His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymos at the Convening of the Hierarchy
• Discussions and views on the Holy Light

Schismatic Old-Calendarists

• The change in the Calendar
• The schismatic illegal occupants of the Holy Mountain's Esphigmenou Monastery resort to acts of violence!
• The schismatic "Macedonian Orthodox church"
• On schisms
• The Origins of the Old Calendar Schism
• The Old and the New Calendar
• Metropolitan Seraphim: Uncritical zealotry and syncretistic Ecumenism are a common fallacy
• Two miracles proving that the calendar does not save...
• Metropolitan Seraphim: Old Calendarists should repent
• Old Calendar - New Calendar: the facts
• The schismatic Old-Calendarists
• Schismatic Old-Calendarism is an anti-Patristic stance
• Old Calendarism and the Holy Mountain Monastery of Esfigmenou
• The Old Calendar -Α letter of clarification on the issue by Archmandrite Cyril

Hagiography - The theology of Holy Icons

• The meaning of Orthodoxy’s victory against the Iconomachy
• Τhe Image-less Idol: How Iconoclasm leads to Idolatry
• The depiction of the Holy Trinity
• An atonement of Shame - Orthodoxy and the Cross
• The icon of the The Annunciation of the Theotokos
• The icon of the The Theotokos
• The icon of the The Nativity
• The icon of the Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ
• The icon of the Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Saint John of Damascus: The distinction between "created" and "Uncreated" and the Theology of Icons
• "Byzantine" Hagiography - A Rational Depiction
• The Theology of Icons and the Incarnation of God the Logos
• Are holy icons “idols”?
• Is veneration worship?
• The perennial honoring of saints by the Church
• Iconoclasts: Orthodoxy's "conservatives"
• Iconography in a Synagogue and the most ancient Christian Temple, in Dura - Europos