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King Philippe of Belgium attends the celebration of Sunday of Orthodoxy

The Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in the Holy Metropolis of Belgium in the presence of King Philippe of Belgium, on Sunday, March 17. Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and the Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg officiated the Inter-Orthodox Divine Liturgy, accompanied by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Kyrenia, Bishop Dositheus from the Georgian Patriarchate and clerics…

Mar 18, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Meeting in Paris to prepare international exhibit on Mother Maria Skobtsova

This Friday March 15 in Paris, a group will start preparing the international exhibit on Mother Maria Skobtsova, orthodoxie.com reports. The exhibit will be held in August in Rimini, Italy. Following the idea proposed by Ukrainian philosopher Alexander Philonenko, it will be part of the yearly Rimini cultural festival organized by Communion and Liberation (a Roman…

Mar 15, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Icon of Panagia Jordanitissa, relics of St Ephraim of Nea Makri, brought to Icoanei Church in Bucharest

The Jordanitissa Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God was brought on Thursday from the Romanian Settlement in Jerusalem to Icoanei Church, a church in Bucharest named after the an old icon of Our Lady sitting on throne offered by Ruler Prince Saint Constantine Brancoveanu, marking the beginning of this year’s festivities dedicated to the…

Mar 15, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill celebrates 44th anniversary of ordination to Episcopate

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrates Saturday, 14 March 2020, the 44th anniversary of his ordination to the Episcopate. His Beatitude Kirill (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on 20 November 1946, in Leningrad. After graduation from school, he entered the Leningrad Seminary and later the Leningrad Theological Academy, from…

Mar 14, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

‘I post as many pictures as possible, therefore I am’: Holy Synod warns against idolatry on social media

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church cautioned that in the ‘era of videocracy’ social networks give birth to idolatrous, narcissistic tendencies, they weaken human communion, and the human person is not valued at true value as icon or image of God. In their pastoral letter for the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Romanian hierarchs…

Mar 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel: ‘Have mercy on me, o God’ is the call to the only source of eternal life – Christ

‘After every troparion of the Great Canon of Repentance of Saint Andrew of Crete we have this calling, this insistent supplication, as a breath of the Church: Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me,’ Patriarch Daniel said at the end of the Great Canon officiated at the Patriarchal Cathedral on Clean Monday.…

Mar 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel of Romania offers three pieces of advice for Great Lent

On Cheesefare Sunday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania said that ‘fasting is an offering of man’s love brought to God’ and gave three fundamental pieces of advice for Christians to be able to bring this God-pleasing offering. ‘The Gospel reading of this Sunday has a major importance for the entire Lenten season,’ His Beatitude…

Mar 12, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Satu Mare Deanery buying house for 7-children family that lost home in fire

A Romanian family with 7 children that lost its home to a fire in early February will be able to buy a new home thanks to the generosity and Christian love of the clergy and faithful of the Satu Mare Deanery of the Maramureş and Sătmar Diocese in northwest Romania. Through collections organized in the…

Mar 5, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Ecumenical Patriarch’s Lenten Message focuses on ascetism as common vocation for all faithful

Ascetism takes center stage in Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s Lenten message this year, which represents a common vocation for all faithful without exception. ‘Asceticism is Christianity in its entirety,’ Patriarch Bartholomew wrote in his catechetical homily at the opening of Holy and Great Lent published March 4, 2019. ‘The purpose of ascesis is the transcendence of…

Mar 5, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

The new Metropolitan of Kananga, Theodosius, has been enthroned

On Sunday, February 24, the new Metropolitan Theodosius of Kananga was enthroned by Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa, Romfea informs. The enthronement took place at St Andrews Cathedral in Kananga. The Patriarch of Alexandria spoke warmly about the enthroned Metropolitan of Kananga and gave him advice, promptings and instructions for the pastoral care…

Feb 26, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Holy Synod examines Ukrainian ecclesiastical issue at first 2019 working session

On Thursday, 21 February 2019, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its working session at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, during which the following decisions were made: The Holy Synod appreciated the manifold and rich activities carried out in the Romanian Patriarchate…

Feb 21, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu