On Sunday, May 10, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Sidirokastro Mr. Makarios inaugurated the Holy Temple of Agia Marina in the parish of Ammoudia. This new Holy Temple was built entirely and beautified by the Evangelidis family and was donated to the Holy Diocese and especially to the parish of Ammoudia, its place of origin […]
A very apt answer of St. Nicholas Velimirovich to the question why there is wealth and splendor in the Holy Temples, which are decorated with elaborate ecclesiastical items. “Would Christ tolerate so much brilliance in the Church?” Definitely. He tolerated it then, he would tolerate it now. At that time there was the Temple of […]
With the blessing and permission of His Eminence the Metropolitan of Sidirokastro Mr. Makarios in the spring of 2005 a prefabricated church was placed just outside the village of Ammoudia, near the cemetery, on the provincial road to the village of Karperi. The small church was donated by the family of Dimitrios H. Evangelidis in […]
Easter is not an opportunity, to mix for the good… It is a celebration that does not end, the eternal, the true… Easter is not the candles, which we forget at the moment… They are bent Elders, with the unlit candle… Easter is not the sky that shines, from fires, sparklers… It is the pure […]
“Ecclesiastical art” is the art with which we make objects, which we use to worship God and which are either inside or outside the temple. The iconostasis itself, created from carved wood or marble, is in itself a work of art. There are also priestly vestments and covers of the Holy Table which are gold […]
Nothing is accidental in the Orthodox Church. Everything has been meticulously studied and has its own utility and importance. The Fathers of our Church ordained the faithful entering the temple, to participate in worship and thanksgiving, to leave the worldly for the time being and to enter the realm of the supersensible. That is why […]
Lent is a journey, a movement and a journey. No liturgical period of our Holy Church is characterized by its stagnation. Some may experience the festive season as stagnation and this is due to our own spiritual condition, that we have been deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit resulting in spiritual death. On […]
The church of our parish is the center of our life. There we received the wish when our mother was sprinkled, there we were baptized, there we were anointed, there we were sanctified, there we laid the foundation of our life with the Mystery of Marriage. Inside the Holy Temple we experienced joys but also […]
Elder Paisios of Mount Athos The defendants are dead – Elder, when a person dies, does he immediately feel in what condition he is? – Yes, he comes together and says “what did I do?”, But that does not help. Like a drunk, if he kills e.g. his mother, he laughs, he sings, because he […]
