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On June 7th – the First Sunday after Pentecost, that of All Saints – Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Synodal Cathedral of […]
On Saturday the 30th and Sunday the 31st of May, the Orthodox Church celebrated the great feast of Pentecost. Throughout the Eastern American Diocese, its hierarchs officiated the divine services […]
On Saturday the 30th and Sunday the 31st of May, the great feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost), Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York paid […]
Terra-Gen Energy, a renewable energy developer, is surrounding the properties of Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary in Jordanville, NY, a National Historic Site registered on the National Register of Historic […]
On Saturday the 30th and Sunday the 31st of May, the great feast of Pentecost was celebrated with the usual solemnity in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. In preparation […]
On Monday, June 1 – the Day of the Holy Spirit – clergy from the parishes of the New Jersey Deanery and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gathered at Holy Trinity […]
On Sunday, May 31, the great feast of Holy Pentecost (Holy Trinity Sunday), the faithful gathered at St. Vladimir Cemetery in Jackson, NJ for a panihida at St. John the […]
The condition of the Primate of the Russian Church is satisfactory. The post His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Contracted the Coronavirus appeared first on A Russian Orthodox Church Website. […]
The 4th Plenary Session of the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church took place from September 19 to 24, in Moscow. The Moscow Patriarchate membership […]
To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, As Hurricane Ian approaches Florida and as we see the extensive damage to the Atlantic Provinces from Hurricane […]
The Patriarch noted that fraternal peoples should not be separated by an "impenetrable wall of hatred." The post Patriarch Kirill: The Church Prays for the Fraternal Strife to End as […]
At the beginning of the new academic year, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to all students, urging them to combine study with prayer. The patriarchal message focuses on […]
On Tuesday, 13 September, 2022, the members of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, led by His Eminence Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany, […]
His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije once again donated blood for the needs of hospitals. The post Voluntary Blood Donation Takes Place in Churches in Serbia appeared first on A Russian Orthodox […]

Bishop Veniamin (Milov)The saints of Russia shine like bright stars in the Church’s firmament. They shine upon us with the light of their spiritual feats, their moods, their holy words […]

Rev. Dr. Oliver SuboticThe triad of faith–prayer–virtue was the hallmark of Patriarch Ilia, accompanying him throughout his patriarchal ministry. […]

Proper and Improper ConfessionRev. Dr. Oliver SuboticIt makes no difference whether a man carries in his bag a single stone weighing one hundred kilograms, or a thousand pebbles weighing one […]

From the life of the parish of St. Luke of Crimea in UlyanovskWe always ask the saint to remain prayerfully in our church and help us comfort the sick. […]

Preparation for ConfessionRev. Dr. Oliver SuboticHere the analogy with medicine is almost complete, with the priest being only a servant of the True Physician of soul and body—the Lord Jesus […]

Repentance as the Need for Purification and a Change of LifeRev. Dr. Oliver SuboticRepentance is not merely a matter of feeling sorry for having committed a sin. True repentance is […]

Priest Tarasiy BorozenetsThe saints’ victory does not consist in never having fallen, but in steadfastly pressing toward the goal set before them—the Kingdom of Heaven—and remaining faithful to God until […]





