The Cave of the Archangel Michael of Panormitis in Rhodes (History and Miraculous Testimonies)

By Lazos Mantikos,
Journalist for the Greek TV station Antenna

Surely everyone will have something to say about the Archangel Michael of Panormitis. The name has an ancient origin. Based on etymology, there are two versions: Because it is on a bay (ormos) or it is related to the deserted location of Apomero (ermo) located southwest of the beautiful island of Symi. It is one of the largest pilgrimage sites of the Dodecanese and has a pan-Hellenic pan-Orthodox reputation.

My Testimony
 

I will begin with my own story... When I brought my newborn daughter to Rhodes, my sister brought as a gift prayer ropes that had been blessed from the Sacred Monastery of the Commander Michael in Panormitis of Symi. One of them was to be put on her little leg. I didn't want the newborn baby to have anything on her. I said it in general, to make her feel comfortable. But I did not imagine that in my sleep I would see the Archangel Michael of Panormitis looking at me fiercely with his long gray hair and dressed in his silver armor. Terrified I woke up not knowing who it was, then I saw the icon they had left on my daughter's bed. He was exactly as I saw him in my dream.

Homilies on the Commonwealth of the Church - The Chanter (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 The Commonwealth of the Church

The Chanter

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Usually people characterize the Bishop as High Clergy and the Presbyters and Deacons as Lower Clergy. However, this is not correct from the Church's point of view. Because in the texts of the Church, the High Clergy are the Bishop, the Presbyter and the Deacon, who belong to the three degrees of the Priesthood, and to the lower degree belong the Subdeacons, the Chanters, the Readers, because they help the Clerics in their liturgical ministry.

The Lower Clergy also includes chanters, or as they are usually called, sacred chanters. This is the chanter who is on the right side of the Temple, at the right analogion and is called the right chanter, and there is also the chanter who is on the left side of the Temple, at the left analogion and is called the left chanter. In the Patriarchal Church the right chanter is called Protopsaltis and the left chanter is called Lampadarios.

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece Warns of New Activity of the Church of Scientology

The Drug-Free World chapter of Athens is supported by the Church of Scientology of Greece.

Regarding New Activity of Scientology in Greece

September 4, 2023

 

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece with a sense of responsibility informs Christians everywhere that the "Church of Scientology" which operated in Greece in the form of an association under the name "Greek Center of Applied Philosophy" (Κέντρο Εφαρμοσμένης Φιλοσοφίας Ελλάδος - K.E.F.E.) with two decisions of the Greek Judiciary (7380/1996 of the Athens Court of First Instance and 10.493/1997 of the Athens Court of Appeal) was found to be "an organization with medically, socially and morally dangerous and harmful practices."

Homilies on the Commonwealth of the Church - The Monk (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

The Commonwealth of the Church

The Monk

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Monastics are a special order developed over time. There have always been the anchorites, as we read in the Epistle to the Hebrews of the Apostle Paul, who lived in the mountains, the caves and the holes of the earth (see Heb. 11). After the period of persecution, there was a tendency among Christians to leave the cities and live in the mountains, and so these became the monks who lived in Sketes and Monasteries.

As we see in the ancient Church, between the Clergy and the laity an order was formed which is known as the monastic order. Saint Dionysios the Areopagite calls them "therapeutes", because they pray to God, and they are the first order in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy among the laity. In other words, the Church Hierarchy includes the Bishops, the Presbyters, the Deacons and immediately after is the order of the laity, of which the monks are the first.

Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday of Matthew (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday of Matthew

"He will destroy those wicked men." (Matt. 21:41)

By Archpriest Rodion Putyatin

An estate owner planted a vineyard, arranged it properly, did everything necessary for it, left it to the vinedressers, and he himself went to another country.

When the time came to gather the fruits, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to gather their fruits. But the vinedressers beat all the servants, and killed others. The owner sent others, more than before, but the vinedressers did the same with those. Finally, he sent his son - they will pity, be afraid, be ashamed, he thought, to kill his son. But they also killed his son - so that after him, as they said, they would take possession of the inheritance, the estate.