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PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICAL ON THE OCCASION OF HOLY PASCHA
† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE ENTIRE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: GRACE, PEACE, AND MERCY FROM CHRIST, RISEN IN GLORY Most honourable brother Hierarchs and blessed children in the Lord, Having arrived, through fasting, prayer, and solemnity, at the
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This Holy Week, Christ May Come to You as an Interruption
Learning to see Holy Week through the life of Saint Maria of Paris As we stand at the threshold of Holy Week, many of us are thinking about the services, the hymns, the fasting, the flowers, the candles, the beauty, and the sorrow of these sacred days. We are preparing to follow Christ to Jerusalem, to the Mystical Supper, to
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Great Concelebration of the Unity of Orthodoxy in the Netherlands
On Sunday, 22 March 2026, the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Rotterdam hosted the Great Concelebration of the Great Lent in the Netherlands, bringing together clergy, faithful, and distinguished guests from different Orthodox traditions in a moving witness to the unity of the Orthodox Church. Presided over by Metropolitan Athenagoras and marked by multilingual liturgical chanting, the celebration concluded with an agape reception and heartfelt gratitude for the many volunteers whose dedicated service made the event possible
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Take Up Your Cross: Reflections on the Third Sunday of Great Lent
On the Third Sunday of Great Lent, a wooden cross is carried into the middle of the church and placed there for the entire week — not as decoration, but as a summons. Fr Thomas Hopko, Emeritus Dean of St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, reflects on what it truly means to venerate the cross: not merely to kiss it, incense it, or carry it in procession, but to pick it up. Drawing on Mark 8:34, the early Christian hymns of St Paul, and the missionary writings of St. Innocent of Alaska, this homily cuts to the heart of Lenten discipline — that to deny oneself and take up the cross is, in the end, simply to love. No matter what.
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Grote Inter-Orthodoxe Concelebratie – Zondag 22 maart 2026
Beste gelovigen, Met grote vreugde nodigen wij u uit voor een bijzondere en feestelijke viering: de Grote Inter-Orthodoxe Concelebratie van de Grote Vastentijd in Nederland. Op zondag 22 maart 2026 komen vertegenwoordigers van verschillende Orthodoxe Patriarchaten samen in de Orthodoxe Kathedraal van de Heilige Nikolaas in Rotterdam voor een gezamenlijke liturgische viering. Dit is een unieke gelegenheid om de eenheid
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The Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas – A Sermon by Fr. John Behr
As part of the 2026 Orthodox Scholars Preach series, organized by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University, we are pleased to share this sermon delivered on the Second Sunday of Great Lent — the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas — by the Very Rev. Dr. John Behr. This series brings together leading Orthodox scholars who offer short but
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What Holds Us When Everything Else Fails?
Photo by Petar Milošević, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) We live in a world that quietly teaches us something troubling: your worth depends on what you can do. As long as we are productive, capable, and independent, life feels stable. We set goals. We make plans. We look forward. Hope, in this picture, is tied to performance — to the
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