Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah for Great Lent 2011
To the Hierarchs, Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America Dearly Beloved in the Lord: The beginning of anoth...
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Ecumenical Patriarch’s Encyclical on our Entry into Great Lent
+ BARTHOLOMEW By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church Grace and Peace from our Lord and Sav...
Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nicolae on Sanctity of Life Sunday
On this Sunday of January 23rd 2011, we decided to pray together with other Orthodox Christians in America, for respect and defend of life in our world. This pr...
The Priest and Obedience
In a previous post, I wrote about a priest being removed by his bishop for wearing a cassock. I fear I may not have been fair in my treatment of that post and h...
Priest Dismissed for Wearing a Cassock!
The Offending Garment According to a story on OCANews.org Metropolitan Philip has dismissed a priest as pastor of one of his churches because he was wearing a c...
Archbishop Nicolae on the Koran Burning
(http://www.romarch.org/) Can a Christian encourage violence and hatred? This past Sunday our Gospel passage was taken from the 22nd chapter of St. Matthew’s Go...
1 September ~ World Environment Day
Inasmuch as, at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, we have long been concerned about problems related to the preservation of the natural environment, we have ascertai...
Prayers for +Nikon of Boston
BOSTON, MA (OCA) – Prayers are requested for the ongoing health of His Grace, Bishop Nikon of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, who recent...
Archbishop Nicolae’s Meditation at the beginning of the Dormition Fast, 2010
Before the glorious feast of the Falling Asleep of the Ever-Virgin Mary, the Church has established a short time of fasting for two weeks. Every fasting period ...
2011 Episcopal Assembly
(antiochian.org) – His Grace Bishop BASIL, Secretary of the Episcopal Assembly, explained in his July 4 St. Raphael Clergy Brotherhood Memo, “In a l...