The Metropolis of San Francisco closed its 49th Annual Greek Orthodox Folk Dance and Choral Festival (FDF) yesterday, celebrating another successful event and looking toward the future of FDF. At Sunday night’s award ceremony, participants […] The post On final day, FDF looks to the future appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Eleni (Hélène) Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantinologist whose work and public voice helped restore Byzantium to the center of European history—not as a dimmed epilogue than a durable, governing civilization—died on Monday. She was 99. […] The post Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, historian who reframed Byzantium as a multiethnic, unifying state, dies at 99 appeared first on […]
This morning, the final day of the Metropolis of San Francisco’s 49th Annual Greek Orthodox Folk Dance and Choral Festival (FDF) began with participants celebrating the Divine Liturgy together in the event’s main ballroom. Filling […] The post FDF participants express shared faith at Sunday liturgy appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the unanimous decision of the Holy Eparchial Synod, Holy Cross is happy to announce the launch of the launching of its online Continuing Education […] The post Holy Cross launches ‘Catechesis’ continuing education program appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
For Judgement (Meatfare) Sunday, the Orthodox Observer has republished this statement by His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos of Atlanta. “My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, If the Church uses the first two Sundays of Triodion […] The post ‘It is not enough to proclaim our belief in Christ,’ says Metropolitan Sevastianos of Atlanta appeared first […]
This Saint, whose name means "blessed," was born in 480 in Nursia, a small town about seventy miles northeast of Rome. He struggled in asceticism from his youth in deserted regions, where his example drew many who desired to emulate him. Hence, he ascended Mount Cassino in Campania and built a monastery there. The Rule […]
For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June […]
The martyrdom of the Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebasteiaia is a powerful lesson in Christian faith, perseverance, sacrifice, and friendship. The story of this martyrdom begins in the early part of the 4th century when the persecution of Christians was still active. There were 40 soldiers of the Roman army who possessed sincere faith in […]
The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not by simple words, but by actual deeds, how beneficial fasting is for man, and how harmful and destructive are insatiety and the transgressing of the divine commandments. […]
Venerable Gerasimos lived during the reign of king Constantine Pogonatos in 670, as Sophronios of Jerusalem, who wrote his life, attests. He had fear of God since childhood and, after he became a monk, he went to the deepest parts of the desert of Thebais. He reached such a height of virtue and was graced […]
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