Category Feasts

Nativity Encyclical 2025 in Arabic. رسالة الميلاد للكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الحقيقية الروسية في أبرشية أوروبا الغربية ٢٠٢٤

“المجد لله في العلى وعلى الأرض السلام وفي الناس المسرة!” (لوقا ١٤:٢) أيها الإكليروس والمؤمنون الأحباء في أبرشية أوروبا الغربية الأرثوذكسية الحقيقية بينما نستعد للاحتفال بالميلاد المجيد لربنا وإلهنا ومخلصنا يسوع المسيح، فلنرفع قلوبنا في شكرٍ على سر التجسد الذي…

Reposting on the occasion of the new calendar “Christmas”: The First Celebration of Orthodox Christmas in Greece after the Calendar Schism. From the Memory Lane of Andreas Vaporidis of Blessed Memory, First President of the “Society of the Orthodox”

The celebration of the Nativity of Christ in 1924 for the True Orthodox Christians of Greece was one full of agony during that time of persecution. Just 9 months after the innovators of the Church of Greece changed their calendar,…

The Life of the Great Martyr Barbara – December 4

On December 4th, the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of the Great Martyr St. Barbara, a saint who courageously bore witness to Christ and whose life remains an enduring inspiration for Christians. St. Barbara was born in the late 3rd…

Discourse on the Nativity of the Theotokos

by Divine power, the servile and subservient (in the law) are transformed into the light and free (in grace), so that we are not "in bondage to the elements of the world" (Gal 4:3) and not in a condition under the slavish yoke of the letter of the law.