Articles for category: The Church

Dogma and tough love of the Holy Fathers

Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis contrasts the love of the Holy Fathers that anathematises with the love of those who preach it without keeping the dogmas (truths).

June 15, 2024 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Church feasts, Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, Sermons, The Church

BISHOPS AND THEIR PARAPHERNALIA

In this excerpt from “The Heavenly Banquet”, Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis says bishops should shed their vain paraphernalia, and that the laity would welcome it.

March 8, 2024 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, The Church

Bishops: Do not persecute the priests for preserving Orthodox traditions!

In a fiery open letter, Metropolitan Ambrosios of Kalavryta writes that bishops have done more to tear down our faith than anti-Christian government rules.

July 20, 2021 by Metropolitan Ambrosios of Kalavryta
The Church, Translations from Greek

THE ECUMENICAL MONARCH

The special privileges of the Patriarch of Constantinople are no longer based on the canons, but on a new theory that he is the vicar of… God the Father.

November 18, 2019 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, The Church

“How long do we remain with the GOA?”… and 3 other questions answered

Commemorating an ecumenist bishop does not necessarily pollute the clergy and people under them, as long as they declare their faith openly.

November 1, 2019 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, The Church

The Church of Greece, autocephaly, Russia, and “the Occupant”

Despite objections by certain hierarchs, the Church of Greece has recognized the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”. We offer our comments in the aftermath.

October 15, 2019 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, The Church

OUR CHRISTIAN ROOTS – Part I, Section 3

The early Church was organized. As you read the select passages presented from Holy Scripture, a convincing picture will appear before your eyes.

August 1, 2019 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, The Church

OUR CHRISTIAN ROOTS – Part I, section 1

Introduction to “Our Christian Roots”, a two-part presentation of primary sources from Holy Scripture and the writings of early Church Fathers.

August 1, 2019 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, The Church

Characteristics of a missionary church

“Bang!” The Church sprung out of the upper Room in Jerusalem and spread all over the world. What are the characteristics of this missionary Church?

March 8, 2019 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Evangelism, Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis, Sermons, The Church

What would the Orthodox Church be without the Ecumenical Patriarch?

For many years now, Patriarch Bartholomew has been Vaticanizing the Orthodox Church. We do not want a Pope of the East. By Fr. Aggelos Aggelakopoulos.

October 1, 2018 by Fr. Aggelos Aggelakopoulos
Ecumenism, The Church