This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the revival of monastic life at the monastery, and 18 years since it received the status of a lavra.
The former head of the Christ the Savior Brotherhood, who helped bring hundreds if not thousands of souls into holy Orthodoxy, has reposed in the Lord.
The faithful had gathered in the church to venerate a portion of the relics of St. Sergius Radonezh that are being carried to churches and monasteries throughout Russia and Belarus.
On “Church Musician Sunday,” parishes are encouraged to publicly recognize all those who labor for the beauty of the services: choir directors, singers, chanters, readers, composers, arrangers, and bell-ringers.
Not only was the parish blessed by a visit from His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Americas for its 86th anniversary, but also by the visit of the wonderworking and myrrh-streaming Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God.
The perpetrators would make their way to the plantation under the guise of pilgrims.
Several monasteries of the Belarusian Orthodox Church celebrated important anniversaries and achievements on the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos yesterday.
The Chełm Icon is one of the oldest icons of the Mother of God, painted by, according to tradition, by St. Luke the Evangelist.
Archpriest Vladimir Boikov
It turns out that people from one little corner of the world are sending some assistance to another little corner of the world.
A half mile down the road, we turned back to watch low-flying planes dump crimson fire-retardant on the edge of the growing conflagration.
The installation of the cross was initiated and financed by the local municipality, with the support of many citizens.
Abbess Anastasia (Ivanchenko)
“This is a place where the soul meets God. Here the Lord speaks in a still, small voice.” This is how pilgrims poetically describe their impressions after visiting St. Innocent’s Convent in the village of Razdolnoe.
Hieromonk Paisiy (Ipate)
We need to bring the Gospel to Cambodia. We also need a firm footing in order to establish roots and thrive.
Ekaterina Elizarova
Over the past twenty-five years, the procession’s route has changed, its duration has increased to five days, and the number of participants in some years reached as many as three and a half thousand. But the spiritual joy that accompanies the fervently praying pilgrims remained unchanged.
The patronal feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos of Nicula Monastery in Cluj County gathered over 20,000 people who participated in the religious services.
Igumen Athanasy (Kovalchuk)
On crossing the threshold of this church, you find yourself in another world.
More than 100,000 people have received comprehensive assistance.
The present church was built in the 11th century on the ruins of a 5-th century basilica.
A number of women devoted their lives to Christ in monastic tonsure at a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery this week.
Every year, around the new calendar feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, mysterious snakes appear in the villages of Markopoulo and Agrinia where there are chapels dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, remaining until the feast of the Dormition on August 15.
