With the outbreak of the Coronavirus we hear calls repeatedly from many priests and hierarchs to practice social distancing, avoid attendance at Liturgy, and rely instead on viewing the live-streaming of liturgical services. Is this good advice?

While temporary absence from liturgical services may be a necessary part of our response to the virus outbreak, the spiritual efficacy of live-streaming...

In this episode of The Orthodox Ethos Podcast:

1. The Church is a Hospital, in which sicknesses are healed
2. The Story of the Life-Giving Church throughout the Ages
3. Answers to Your Questions

DETAILS:

00:00:37 - Introduction: The Church is a...

Due to the latest events after the pause of the divine services, caused by the novel virus, we would like to humbly state the position of our Holy Church on whether any diseases can be spread through the Holy Sacraments, or through her sanctifying means, the veneration of the Holy Icons, the kissing of the hands of the priests, or even by simply staying in the sacred temples.

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Fr. George Metallinos is and will be remembered among those still struggling in this world as a great Churchman, a faithful man, a confessor and expositor of Orthodoxy, an unparalleled expert on Orthodoxy and Greece under the Turkish Yoke, and a spiritual man of great stature, nobility and refinement. I was very blessed to come to know Fr. George in the early 2000s and work besides him drafting several...

A note from the editor of OE:

The following article was brought to my attention today, although it is actually several years old. Although with some minor reservations (for example, I don't recommend the NIV translation of Holy Scripture), I recommend it to the readers of Orthodox Ethos. One of the lines that caught my attention and "propelled" me to re-post the article is the...

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The infamous heretic Nestorius occupied the Patriarchal throne of Constantinople from April 428 unto August 431. According the St. Theophanes the Confessor as soon as Nestorius "mounted the throne, his heresy and

his doctrinally distorted mind were straight away revealed." According to this same Saint the "the holy and ecumenical synod (more than 3 years after Nestorius began preaching...

Ὅπως εἶναι γνωστόν πρόσφατα (24 καί 25 Μαΐου) συνῆλθε ἡ Ἱεραρχία τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος καί ἔλαβε ἀποφάσεις σχετικά μέ τά κείμενα τά ὁποῖα θά ὑπογραφοῦν ὕστερα ἀπό ἐνδεχόμενες διορθώσεις καί προσθῆκες ἀπό τήν Ἁγία καί Μεγάλη Σύνοδο τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας στήν Κρήτη τόν Ἰούνιο τρέχοντος ἔτους.

Οἱ ἀποφάσεις πού ἔλαβε ἡ Ἱεραρχία ἦταν ὁμόφωνες, ἐκτός ἀπό μία περίπτωση πού Ἱεράρχης ζήτησε νά γραφῆ...