The Evil Eye

by Fr. Savvas Anastasiou For the past few years now I have come across a superstition among the Greek people concerning good luck and bad luck, and how one may ward off evil. Some believe that they can protect themselves from evil by wearing an evil eye talisman...

Candle Making Event October 2018

Candle Making at Saint Nektarios Cathedral is a joyous get together for all who attend. The day starts early and the work is long, but being together making candles that we know are going to be offered unto our Lord and His saints is a special time. Usually, the...

St. Cyril of Jerusalem: On the Divine Liturgy and Holy Communion

Lecture XXIII. On the Mysteries V. On the Divine Liturgy and Holy Communion. 1 Peter. ii. 1. “Wherefore putting away all filthiness, and all guile, and evil speaking…” By the loving-kindness of God ye have heard sufficiently at our former meetings...

St. Philaret breaks with Bishop Christopher

The Church of Serbia at the Crossroads (Reprinted from “Newletter #27”, Nov. – Dec., 1979, published by the Department of Public and Foreign Relations of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) Not long ago, in our...

St. Philaret of NY by SJOKP

St. Philaret, Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America: The New Confessor and Ascetic On the feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and all the Bodiless Powers, 8/21 November 1985, His Eminence the Most Rev. Metropolitan Philaret, First Hierarch of Russian...