The myrrh-streaming and wonderworking Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos is known throughout the Orthodox world.
He was the ruling hierarch of the Midwest from 2011 to 2013.
After the Fire’s descent, the Patriarch passed the holy gift to the faithful who lit from it their bundles of 33 candles, per the age of Christ at the time of His Crucifixion and Resurrection.
The newly illumined Orthodox Christians hail from various backgrounds, including the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece, Africa, other Commonwealth and European countries, and Asia.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) detained His Eminence Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk, the abbot of the Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra, yesterday. According to a court ruling, he is to be held in a pre-trial detention center for 60 days without the possibility of bail.
In particular, the Synod considered the cases of Abbot Tikhon (Gayfudinov), Archpriest Andrei Pastukh, Archpriest Edward Chervinsky, and Protodeacon Vladimir Oliynyk, “who wrought disturbance in the church life of several diocesan parishes.”
The campaign is entitled, “We Bring Light into Our Souls at Pascha.”
After the Divine celebration all the faithful gathered at the site of the new church building and prayed together for the Lord Jesus to bless the community with resources to build the much-needed church.
Two new Orthodox churches were formally opened in Belgium in the month of April.
Last month, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Chișinău of the Moscow Patriarchate issued a call to His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania to enter into dialogue concerning the sharp ecclesiastical tensions.
The conference, held at the Holy Virgin, Joy of All Who Sorrow Cathedral, home to the relics of St. John, was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of his glorification.
There are countless miracles attributed to the miraculous icon, which is celebrated with a procession every year on May 17.
Security Service (SBU) employees blocked and searched the monastery this morning.
A number of men have received monastic tonsures at the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra over the past week.
The sickly and much persecuted Metropolitan Longin of Bancheny, one of the staunchest hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was subject to harassment by Ukrainian officials again this week.
If the government of the Republic of Estonia, represented by the Minister of Internal Affairs, insists on changing the jurisdiction of the monastery, then as the initiator of the process, the government itself may approach Patriarch Kirill with a proposal to cancel the stavropegial status of Pukhtitsa Monastery. Abbess Philareta noted that such a course is canonically legitimate for the convent’s residents.
The awards were given on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the St. George and St. Dimitrie parish community.
Thanks to the efforts of clerics from the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate, Scriptural, Patristic, and catechetical works have been published in various African languages.
Great Lent is coming to an end, a time that was associated for us not only with bodily restrictions but also with many concerns about the fate of our Church...
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