Our Church celebrates the Divine Liturgy and the Mass of Remembrance of the Dead on Saturday, February 22 (The Winter Departed) and Saturday, March 8 (Saint Theodore’s Saturday), from 10 am On Saturday, February 22, the Orthodox Church commemorates those who have passed away. This Saturday is popularly known as the “Winter of the Dead”. …
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The icon of the Virgin Mary from the Iviron Monastery, known worldwide under the name of “Portarita”, is the most beloved and honest icon in the Holy Mount Athos. The icon of the Virgin Mary Portarita is in the small chapel, on the left, as soon as it enters the yard. The Iviron Monastery is …
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Today, February 4, 2025, in the Romanian Orthodox Church, an important event in the life of the Patriarchate, in the life of the Church and in the life of Christians is taking place: the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the decision of the Holy Synod to raise the Romanian Orthodox Church to the rank …
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2024 has been proclaimed as the Romanian Orthodox Church’s homage year for the pastoral care of the sick and the commemoration of all the silverless healing saints. To contemporary eyes, this might seem rather strange, since the divorce between science and theology, in this case medical science, is paradigmatic, and the whole question of organized …
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John was a contemporary of influential people. A glorious constellation of geniuses was the light during those years that St. John preached in Constantinople. In the West were Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine. In the east were three Cappadocian Saints: Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, educated, magnetic and fascinating. They were men that St. …
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