Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is celebrating Christmas, according to the Julian calendar, at the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos. "In... Read more Wounded Ukrainian soldiers find solace in Greek monasteries January 3, 2025 Holy Community of Mount Athos announces new measures for pilgrim...
I was stunned when my brother called me at work the next morning to tell me the paramedics had gone to Dad’s house and performed CPR for multiple minutes. It was September 26, the feast of St. John the Theologian on the New Calendar (Fr John’s name’s day) and the Forefeast of...
The Feast of The Transfiguration-Sunday August 6 Featured Posted on August 2, 2023 The Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ is celebrated each year on August 6. Join us for this glorious feastday. We will have Lity (special intercessory prayers and bread) ...
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Most troubling, however, is the open Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008. After brutally crushing break-way Chechnya, the Russians adopted a wholly cynical concern for the oppressed minorities in the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhasia. After occupying the regions and all but ...
the Ecumenical Patriarchate annulled the defrocking unjustly issued against Saint Anthimos and, on 21 June 1992, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided to include Metropolitan Anthimos of Iberia in the calendar, as Holy Hierarch and Martyr, celebrated on 14 September. In the Georgia...
Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva said the following about Old Calendarism: "If you are going to live in the world, follow the calendar of the Church, that you may not bring turmoil to the people, unless you want to live on Mount Athos."* ...
(Rhalles and Potles 1852, p. 11) These Byzantine canonists were the greatest promoters of the dependence on the Jewish calendar (Ogitsky 1973, p. 278). The interpretation by the Byzantine canonists erred due to its being a decontextualized exegesis of the 7th Apostolic canon, influenced ...
Eugenios Voulgaris then responded to Voltaire: "You say that you enjoy your life, because of this and that. But I also enjoy my life. When I eat fasting foods instead of meats on Wednesdays, Fridays and during Lent, and when I wake up and go to church on Sunday mornings and feasts,...