Editor’s Note: On Saturday, November 29, 2025, Pope Leo XIV was escorted by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I around Nicea and the Patriarchal Palace. They commemorated the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council and the 60th anniversary of the 1965 lifting of the mutual anathemas between Catholicism and the Orthodox Church. This spirit of Ecumenism is well-known inside the Patriarchate. However, given this event is in relation to the First Ecumenical Council, we

Read the two-part introduction to the "Pearls from the Pedalion" series   here . From The Orthodox Ethos: Canon 4 of the Regional Council of Antioch states that any bishop or priest who has been deposed by their synod and serves liturgy anyway should not be reinstated, and that laity who commune with deposed clergy should be excommunicated. In Footnote 7 to St. Nikodemos’ interpretation of this canon, he elaborates on the proper use of antidoron. St. Nikodemos further elabora

By Professor I. M. Andreyev (author of Russian Catacomb Saints )   “Without Me ye can do nothing” (John 15. 5).   First of all, we consider it necessary to declare in a straightforward and definite manner, that according to our sincere and firm conviction, only the canonically true Orthodox Christian Church, possessing the fulness of Grace of the Holy Spirit, together with Her holy Sacraments, holy Dogmas, holy Fathers’ literature with its unfolded teaching on Christian moral

The following two accounts are taken from the new publication of Uncut Mountain Press, Miracles and Revelations During the Divine Liturgy , now available here . In the past century in Asia Minor lived a holy but obscure Levite, Father John. He was married with a family, from Gelveri in Cappadocia. On weekdays, he worked in the fields, while on Sundays and feast days he celebrated the liturgy in the church. During the Divine Liturgy, he almost always broke into tears and sigh

The following account is taken from the new publication of Uncut Mountain Press, Miracles and Appearances of the Virgin Mary , now available here. The Monastery of Panagia of Mesovouni was hidden, during the years of Turkish rule, behind a high mountain, to the left of the road that goes from the Thessalian plain to Arta. Its path was dangerous; only goats and local villagers could cross it. Everyone spoke of the old glory of the monastery and its splendor. In the dark years

Image from greekcitytimes.com   Prompted by the legitimate concerns that have arisen among a large portion of our society regarding the mandatory issuance of new digital identity cards, we, the abbots of the Holy Monasteries and Hesychasteria of our homeland, after fervent prayer, thorough research, and deep theological reflection, issue the following Statement.   This Statement constitutes a necessary response to the questions addressed to us and to the anxiety felt by our b

by Constantine Cavarnos Much of uncommon interest and value is said by the Eastern Fathers concerning the important human faculty known as conscience. Their teaching on this subject is based on Holy Scripture and on the spiritual experience, a fruit of a life ordered in accordance with the revealed word of God. From this results the remarkable unity of the teaching, a unity which teachings that are merely human, products of man's sense-experience, imagination, and reasoning,

Editor's Note: Today, on the Church Calendar (Old Style, i.e., October 24) is the feast day of Arethas the Great Martyr and His Fellow Martyrs. Saint Arethas the Great Martyr He is celebrated in the Orthodox Church, Catholicism, and by the Monophysites. The Monophysites have rewritten history to claim he was a Anti-Chalcedonian. In academia, this has become the fashionable narrative. The following article presents all the evidence against this newly crafted narrative. It is s

by Metropolitan Augoustinos of Florina   “In an acceptable time I have heard thee…” [Isaiah 49:8, 2 Cor 6:2]   I ask, dear friends, that you pay close attention to these words. We will spend some time in interpreting them; they are a prophecy by Isaiah and those of you who will comprehend them will become the “lottery’s grand prize winners.” Otherwise I am left with no alternative and I wash my hands…   What is the meaning of these words? I will start my interpretation from a