All Saints Orthodox Christian Church of Salina, Kansas is a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church (Agia Ekaterini) tells the story of how Athens grew “up” over the centuries to the level it sits today. A few levels below the foundation of the medieval building lies the foundation of an ancient temple. St. Catherine’s was built in the 11th century...
“If that is so,” said the Saint “I shall not move away from here,” and he tore up the invitation. Sometimes he journeyed to the village of Lipovka, where he celebrated church services at the Bekhteev house. The Saint journeyed also to the Tolshev Monastery, which he loved for it...
Further, he states that Christ came first to reconcile the estranged Jews to God and then to reconcile the Jews to the Gentiles, so that there is no longer Jew nor Greek, master nor slave, male nor female, because all are one under Jesus Christ, making clear that the New Covenant is f...
The Coptic Church, based in Egypt, is another ancient Christian Church which has the Patriarch of Alexandria as its head. The Orthodox faith Orthodox Christians base their faith on the New Testament and on an early translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which is known as the Septuagint,...
Elder Sophrony: As one Greek theologian writes, we are accustomed to praying to Saint Silouan as a saint, but this official Act of the Church, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, now gives us the ability to do this not only with our hearts and in secret, but openly and publicly. Read the...
We will burn him and scatter his ashes into the wind, as with Mauroeides in Adriano-ple.’85The text is composed in Old Church Slavonic, a language that was probably more accessible to the literate Bulgarian-speaking Christians in comparison to the vast diglossic divide of the Greek martyr...
When this process is at work, then nothing is impossible (Lk 1:37) and in the words of the Apostle Paul, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” Phil 4:13. [i] The Greek Fathers frequently spoke and wrote on vigilance or nepsis. The vigils of the Orthodox church ...
Abp. Elpidophoros has accomplished a trifecta. On June 11, the archbishop of the Greek Church in the Americas once again cast pearls before swine by celebrating the divine mysteries in the synagogue of Satan, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The same parish, grand in its bas...
When a Fresco of the Virgin Mary Suddenly Vanished from the Wall of a Church in Patmos in 1955 On the Greek island of Patmos there is the Monastery of the Life-Giving Spring which was founded in 1607.In the katholikon of this Monastery is the fresco of the Panagia Eleousa, which was...