OCP News Service - 17/6/21 Self-Governing Monastic Republic of Mount Athos - Greece: Last month the government of Greece decided to install a 2.6 MW solar power project in the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos. The aim is to improve the quality of life in the mountains with funding from the Central Macedonia regional authority. However, Hilandar ...
L.J - Chief Editor – OCP News Service- OCP Articles - 4/5/2020 'Prayers in solitude and ascetic life at Mount Athos deeply influenced me' Metropolitan Seraphim The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos-Greece: Metropolitan Seraphim Abraham of Bengaluru of the Indian Orthodox Malankara Church was a guest at the Simonopetra Monastery (Monastery of Simonos Petra). The Monastery at Mount ...
The Ascetic Experience - Vatopedi Monastery - The Orthodox Monastic Republic of Mout Athos - 2/4/2020 Saint Nikephoros the Leper appears in Bulgaria and gives the cure for Coronavirus “…… I learned from the internet that the journalist Angel Bonchev was preparing a book about the unknown for us Saint Nikephoros the Leper, at a critical moment ...
Stelios Anastasiou - 16/2/18 Abroad, especially in the U.S.A. Christian content vlogs are very popular and have tens of thousands of followers and millions of views. The Greek komposkoini is such a different vlogger. His videos show pilgrimages on the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, Byzantine churches and other Orthodox worship places throughout Greece, using modern ...
SVOTS - July 2017 St. Vladimir's Seminary 575 Scarsdale Road Yonkers, NY 10707 Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot will present the fourth annual Father John Meyendorff Memorial Lecture on our campus, Friday, September 15, at 7 p.m. Dr. Talbot is the Director Emerita of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, a prestigious research institute of Harvard University, located in Washington, D.C., and is also Editor ...
The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi – The Orthodox Monastic Republic of Mount Athos – 13/2/17 The Church is not a human organization, but a Divine-Human organism. It is not a human corporation, but the Divine-human Body of Christ. The source of the Church is this God Himself. It is not men’s invention, it is ...
The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi – The Orthodox Monastic Republic of Mount Athos – 13/2/17 Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are not Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold. The martyrs gave their blood for the truth, and you are not able to live an Orthodox life and ...
Assembly of Orthodox Clergy and Monks - 4/2/17 Declaration-Protestation against the "SYNOD" of Crete (to be signed by whom it may comply with) (Draft to be allocated for signatures by other Churches) The "Holy & Great Synod" of the Orthodox Church was finally convened, after many decades of preparation, at Kolymbari, Crete, on the 19th-26th June of ...
The Monastery of Vatopedi – The Orthodox Monastic Republic of Mount Athos – 14/1/17 And now, finally, after all that we have said, there remain these three that bind and secure the union of all, faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love, for God Himself is so called. And (as far as I can ...
The Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopaidi – The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos – 7/11/16 For us Orthodox the unique and absolute goal of life in Christ is theosis, our union with God, so that man – through his participation in God’s uncreated energy – may become “by the Grace of God” that which God ...
Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopaidi – The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos Dear All Kindly support the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopaidi. The Monastery has endless demands upon its resources as well as countless souls pleading for spiritual and material support at a time of great difficulty in Greece and neighboring countries. It cannot dedicate resources ...
Church of Serbia- August 2016 The feast-day of the Translation of Relics of St. Archdeacon Stephan was marked by a Hierarchal Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Irinej in the monastery dedicated to this ecclesial event, Slanci, near Belgrade, which is a filial monastery of the Monastery Chilandar in Mount Athos. The Serbian Patriarch pronounced ...
The Jerusalem Patriarchate - August 2016 On the morning of Saturday, the 24th of July/6th of August 2016, His Beatitude Theophilos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, commenced His already announced visit to the Agion Oros. The Patriarch was accompanied by the Elder Secretary-General, Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, the Secretary of the Holy Synod, Archbishop Demetrios of Lydda, Archbishop Nektarios ...
www.katehon.com - 28/5/16 Also Read: ATHOS ELDERS CALLED RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH TO REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL VLADIMIR PUTIN MEETS WITH PATRIARCH KIRILL AT ST. PANTELEIMON MONASTERY (ATHOS) PATRIARCH KIRILL SERVED A MOLEBEN IN ST. PANTELEIMON MONASTERY ON ATHOS: On May 28th, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a pilgrimage visit to Mount Athos. Together with the Patriarch ...
www.sputniknews.com - May 2016 Russia's Night Wolves motorcycle club plans to make its 'Holy Mountain' moto-pilgrimage to Greece an annual event, club spokesman Vadim Strogov said at a press conference at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Athens Sunday. Members of the club, gaining renown in Europe last year due to controversyover their Moscow-Berlin tours dedicated to the Soviet victory ...
Mystagogy- May 2016 On the Saturday of Renewal Week, 7 May 2016, the feast of Saint Nilus the Myrrhgusher was celebrated brilliantly in his hometown of Agios Petros in Kynouria. He was born there in 1601. Following the Divine Liturgy, a procession with his wonderworking icon and sacred relic took place around the village, in the exact ...
Nadezhda Filipchik – For OCP News Service – April 2016 Belgrade- Serbia: The documentary “Athos – pro-life! The legacy of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos” was presented on the 9th of April in Belgrade, Serbia. The documentary was filmed by the Belarusian journalists and on the request of the international movement called “For Life”. While presenting the ...
Nadezhda Filipchik – For OCP News Service – April 2016 Belgrade- Serbia: On the 7th of April a third pro-life cross procession took place in the Serbian capital city of Belgrade. The event got the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbian Orthodox Church. The procession took place in the centre of Belgrade. Its participants went ...
Royal Russia - March 2016 An icon belonging to Emperor Alexander III’s brother, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850-1908), was returned to Tsarskoye Selo on 25 March 2016. Preserved in the Museum’s collection until World War II, the Icon of the Mother of God Quick to Hearken has been donated to the museum by Ms Gabriele Demming from Germany. She ...
Notes on Arab Orthodoxy - November 2015 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is." (Mark 13:32-33) No one knows the hour when the end of times will come, when ...
Fr. Georgios Kuyumcoglu - June 2015 “History teaches us that it is from monasteries that sprang up all church missions, and that missionaries founded monasteries wherever they traveled.” - Archimandrite George Capsanis Since Orthodoxy is inconceivable without monasticism, in November 2006 the abbot of Gregoriou Monastery on Mount Athos, Archimandrite George, gave us a blessing-mandate: to celebrate a ...