2018 Nativity message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania
24. December 2018 - 15:27
This year in his Christmas message, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, stressed that the Nativity of the Lord is the celebration of „gifts offered to children, the elderly, orphans, the sick and lonely, but also to all our dear ones”.
The Feast of the Nativity of the Lord or Christmas is first the celebration of God’s merciful love for humans. God’s eternal Son descended from Heavens, became incarnate of the Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary, and became a Man to grant eternal life to mortals.
Ecumenical Patriarch’s 2018 Christmas Message warns about new forms of nestorianism and monophysitism
22. December 2018 - 15:12
In this year’s Christmas Message, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew warns about contemporary ‘nestorianism’ understood as secularization and scientism, and a new form of ‘monophysitism’ represented by tendencies to demonize the body and natural man, by puritanism and the syndromes of “purity,” by fruitless introverted spirituality and various mysticisms.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill sends letters to Primates of Local Orthodox Churches concerning “unification” pseudo-council held in Kiev
21. December 2018 - 13:04
A deep wound has been inflicted on the canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine and worldwide, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia wrote in the letters addressed to the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches.
The messages were sent to His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania, His Holiness Patriarch Neophytos of Bulgaria, His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland, His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, and His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada.
Appeal of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the Archpastors, Pastors, Monastics and Faithful
20. December 2018 - 12:15
On December 17, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has held an extraordinary session at the Kiev-Pechersky Laura of the Dormition.
The Synod has adopted the following message to the archpastors, pastors, monastics and faithful:
Your Eminences and Graces, Beloved in the Lord Fathers, Brothers and Sisters,
Message of Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III on the occasion of Christmas 2018
20. December 2018 - 11:48
“Make ready, O Bethlehem, let the manger be prepared, Let the Cave show its welcome.
The truth is come the shadow is passed away;
God hath appeared from a Virgin unto men,
Formed as we are and deifying that which He hath assumed.”
(Plagal of fourth Tone by Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem)
During the joyful Twelve-day festivities of Christmas, and especially on this day of Christ’s Nativity, primarily the Church, celebrates in doxology and thanksgiving but also the whole of humanity, socially participates in the celebration of a supernatural and extraordinary event, a strange and paradox mystery that surpasses any human reasoning.
