Tag: Holy Communion
On Kissing the Priest’s Hand
BY FR. ANDREAS - June 2015 A few of our new inquirers have asked about the practice of kissing the priest’s hand. For people outside of ... Read More
Participation in the entire Divine Liturgy
OCA- 2015 Question Recently I read something about the Divine Liturgy that struck me as rather odd. The author said something to the effect that ... Read More
The Last Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia – Constantinople
May 2015 - http://www.londinoupolis.blogspot.co.uk/ Many, even Orthodox, even Greeks, believe that the last Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia, in Constantinople, was celebrated on the 29 May ... Read More
Distinctions for the Patriarchal Chapels
Church of Romania On 7 July 2014, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel awarded the Diploma of the Brancovean Martyr Saints, the Medal dedicated to the Commemorative Year of the ... Read More
Consecration Ceremony and Divine Liturgy at the New Cathedral Of Tirana
Inter-Orthodox Concelebration - 4/6/14 The new National Orthodox Cathedral of Tirana – Albania, was consecrated today, 1 June 2014, by eight venerable Primates of ... Read More
The Priests of Bucharest and Ilfov on a Conference at the Romanian Patriarchate
May 2014 On 26 May 2014, the first session of the spring semestral pastoral-missionary Conference of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bucharest on the ... Read More
Chaldean Patriarch Rips Western Actions in Iraq: ‘We Are a Ruined Church’
http://www.catholicculture.org - 2/5/14 Eleven years after the US invasion of Iraq, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church declared that "we are a ruined church" and ... Read More
Pascha is celebrated in China
24/4/14 On Paschal night, the Revd. Dimitry Fedorin, dean of the first church district of Vladivostok and a cleric of the Cathedral of the Intercession ... Read More
This great joy to carry Infant Jesus in the Temple is a prefiguration of the Mystery of the Church
On 2 February 2014, the Orthodox faithful celebrate the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. The feast reminds the time Infant Jesus was brought ... Read More
Proclamation of the Eucharistic Year and of the Brancovean Saints Martyrs
5/1/14 After the celebration of the Divine Liturgy and of the Te Deum service on 1 January 2014, in the Patriarchal Cathedral, His Beatitude Daniel, ... Read More
2014 – Solemn Eucharistic year (of the Holy Confession and Holy Communion) and the Commemorative year of the Brancovean Saints Martyrs in the Romanian Patriarchate
2/1/14 Following the initiative of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, during the working session of 29 October 2012, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church ... Read More
The Eucharist is the greatest blessing and consolation in this life
o1/01/2014 On the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of Our Lady the Joy to ... Read More
2014 – Solemn Eucharistic Year (of the Holy Confession and Holy Communion) and Commemorative Year of the Brancovean Martyr Saints
December 2013 Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church proclaimed the year 2014 as Solemn Eucharistic Year (of the Holy Confession and Holy Communion) and ... Read More
No material wealth can have the value of a saved soul
On 3 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church delivered a sermon in the chapel of Saint Gregory the Enlightener of ... Read More
Presentation of the Mother of God at the Romanian Patriarchate
On 21 November 2012, on the feast of the Presentation of the Mother of God in the Church, hundreds of faithful were present on the Joy ... Read More
2014 – The Solemn Eucharistic Year and Commemorative Year of the Saints Martyrs Brancovens in the Romanian Patriarchate
2/11/2012 The Holy Synod proclaimed 2014 as Solemn Eucharistic Year (of the Holy Confession and Holy Communion) and Commemorative Year of the Saints Martyrs Brancovens ... Read More
Sunday of Orthodoxy solemnly celebrated
5/3/2012 Serbian Church Gnjilane - On the first week of the Great Lent - the Sunday of Orthodoxy - Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren served the ... Read More
On November 20 Metropolitan Volodymyr received the Holy Communion and thanked everyone for Prayers
Ukrainian Church On Sunday, November 20, Archbishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy and Vyshneve celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of All Saints at the construction ... Read More