April 22 is Earth Day, a global observance of the need to care for the natural environment that has been a centerpiece of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s long and fruitful diakonia to the Church […] The post ‘Every day is Earth Day,’ says Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
In her recent op-ed for the Orthodox Observer, “The Holy Land is beyond AI,” Christina Moniodis closes with the observation that sacred sites “endure,” because people are “seeking a lived encounter.” It’s an astute one, […] The post Opinion | Response to ‘The Holy Land is beyond AI’ appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
What can participants expect when they arrive in Cleveland? His Grace Bishop Nektarios of Diokleia, Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, offers a preview of the rhythm of the Clergy-Laity Congress, from the […] The post A walk through the Clergy-Laity Congress schedule appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
As part of the America at 250: Orthodoxy in a New Homeland initiative, we are proud to republish this 2025 account of Archbishop Elpidophoros’s visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, home to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox […] The post A landmark visit to Holy Trinity Cathedral in New Orleans appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided yesterday, Monday, April 20, 2026, at the Katholikon of the Holy Monastery of Saint Nektarios in Roscoe, New York, over the Divine Liturgy, the Funeral Service, and the […] The post Archbishop Elpidophoros presides over funeral for Archimandrite Joseph of St. Nektarios Monastery appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
On this day in the year 351, not long after Cyril had succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem, during the reign of Constantius, the son of Saint Constantine the Great, on the day of Pentecost, the sign of the Cross appeared over Jerusalem. Saint Cyril, in his letter to the Emperor Constantius, says, "At about […]
After the Saviour had miraculously healed the paralytic, the Jews, especially the Pharisees and Scribes, were moved with envy and persecuted Him, and sought to slay Him, using the excuse that He did not keep the Sabbath, since He worked miracles on that day. Jesus then departed to Galilee. About the middle of the Feast […]
Saint Irene was the daughter of a princelet called Licinius; named Penelope by her parents, through a divine revelation she was brought to faith in Christ and at Baptism was renamed Irene. In her zeal for piety she broke in pieces all the idols of her father, who commanded that she be trampled underfoot by […]
This Saint was from Tarsus of Cilicia and contested in martyrdom under Diocletian, in 284: she was cast into a bull fashioned of bronze, which had been heated with fire. Reading copyright Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, MA, used by permission. All rights reserved.
Close to the Sheep's in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep's Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many sick people with various maladies, awaiting the moving of the water. The first to step […]
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