The Feast commemorates the finding of the True Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ... of the Orthodox Church, Vol. 1, by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra (Ormylia: Holy Convent of the ...

The monumental Cathedral of Christ the Savior ... My father, the Reverend Alexander Schmemann, an Orthodox priest and theologian who, like my mother, was born of Russian émigrés, had been ...

Who are the Orthodox ... to a person who is grieving). Nor are icons portraits; they are meant to show us how this person looked when the light of Christ was shining through her.

Photo of the Priest Processing with the Crucifix courtesy of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL and used with permission. Photo of the Wrapping of the Icon of Christ in a White ...

it is Christ himself who is present to his Church as Head of his Body, Shepherd of his flock, high priest of the redemptive sacrifice, Teacher of Truth. This is what the Church means by saying ...

On Oct. 12, a post on X claimed that a Greek Orthodox priest, Father Gregorios Salloum, had been killed in one such strike.

The congregants don’t just sit in pews and listen. They stand, bow and move to venerate icons or kiss the cross. They stand ...

The current persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC ... We have a church of martyrs from the time of Christ, which is upheld by the blood of martyrs, one might say, and our martyrs ...

The priest was barred from giving blessings, carrying a cross, or wearing the clerical cassock for three years. He was also ...

The Holy Trinity painting is now on display at a cathedral in Moscow, despite its age and fragile state In Moscow, the Cathedral of Christ the ... A 600-year-old Orthodox icon - one of Russia's ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Four heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn have especially high rates of the novel coronavirus, according to data released by this city’s Department of Health.

Swing-State Priest Teaches Ancient Techniques for Surviving ... cultivated over centuries by Eastern Orthodox monks. He opened with a talk drawing on Scripture, poetry, even the lyrics of the ...