Patriarchal Encyclical for Holy Pascha 2023
† 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 Plenitude of the Church: May the Grace, Peace and Mercy of Christ Risen in Glory be…
† 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 Plenitude of the Church: May the Grace, Peace and Mercy of Christ Risen in Glory be…
A day of complete purification and salvation shines today with mighty heavenly light. The joy of the angels and the celestial song overwhelms the earthly beings. Man becomes one with God in an indissoluble union of love and glory. A…
As a Bearer of Life, even more wonderful than Heaven and brighter than any royal palace, Thy Tomb Christ - the source of our salvation has been revealed to us. To be able to stand at the place where the…
Truly holy and most festive is this redemptive night, and the brightest of all, announcing the light-bearing day of the Resurrection; in it, the incarnated eternal Light blazed forth from the grave. Many o Lord My God are thy wonderful…
A sermon of His Eminence the Bishop Parthenius of Antania, Elder and Abbot of the Holy Bigorski Monastery, delivered during the Liturgy on the Sunday of the Paralytic, on the 15th of May, 2021 year of our Lord. Today, my…
He Who enclosed the deeps is now seen dead; and the immortal One is laid in a tomb enclosed in a shroud with myrrh. Women, too, come to anoint Him, weeping bitterly and lamenting: "This Sabbath is blessed above all…