June 6, 2025, Saint Bessarion, Wonderworker of Egypt was an Egyptian. He was baptized while still in his youth, and he led a strict life, striving to preserve the grace given him during Baptism. Seeking to become more closely acquainted with the monastic life, he journeyed to the holy places. He was in Jerusalem,[…]

  (From an encyclical written by His Grace in 2019) June 3, 2025, the counsels of a twentieth-century spiritual father to the modern human being can be summed up in three core philosophies—do not despair, do not be sentimental, and do not force yourself to anything. This advice leads to the discovery of an authentic[…]

May 29, 2025, “There is a temptation to reduce Orthodoxy, especially among young male converts, to a rational system of doctrines and dogmas, canons and rituals. We get all excited about the new things we are learning, and about how far superior they are to the Catholic and Protestant systems of Christian thought, or to[…]

  June 4th, 2025, Father Panayiotis gives us a wonderful explanation on the truth behind the installation of the Filioque into the Nicene Creed, when the schism between the East and West occurred, and if there truly is a possibility of a compromise on this dogmatic matter between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic[…]

  June 2, 2025, Saint Erasmus was from Antioch, and flourished during the reigns of Diocletian (284-305) and Maximian (286-305). Having lived a life of asceticism, he attained such perfection, that he would receive food by means of a raven, and he was made worthy by God of many gifts, so that even against his[…]

  May 28, 2025, In the northwest area of the island of Lefkada there is a resort village called Agios Niketas, named after a church there dedicated to Saint Niketas, which was built probably in the early 18th century by unknown builders in an uninhabited area during Venetian rule. The church always operated as an[…]