Tamara Evenko
Humility—this is how you could define the Godenovo Cross, which appeared in Russia in the fifteenth century and is now located at the dependency of the Pereslavl-St. Nicholas Convent in Godenovo. It’s appearance in Russia can be compared to the appearance of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God on Mt. Athos.
The structure, which belonged to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, was the largest wooden building in Europe and second largest in the world. It served as an orphanage from 1903 to 1964, providing services to thousands of children, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s.
The future orphanage in Dorzea in the Transylvanian county of Bistrița-Năsăud will be administered by Sts. Peter and Paul Monastery in nearby Parva and will be able to accommodate up to 50 orphans.
This historic recording is the first-ever recording of Kastalsky’s monumental score, which lay in obscurity for more than a century.
His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church published an appeal yesterday to his flock in Kosovo and Metohije, imploring them not to leave their homes, thereby abandoning their holy churches, monasteries, and cemeteries as well.
A procession was held during the consecration, with relics being carried around the church and then placed in the newly-consecrated altar.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is tentatively scheduled to make an unofficial visit to Mt. Athos tomorrow and Friday, where he will meet with Athonite leadership in Karyes and stay at the Russian St. Panteleimon’s Monastery.
Nun Elizabeth (Vorobieva)
After the battle, a few French prisoners told about how some special elder with a fiery sword in his hands, who was invincible, was fighting in the first ranks of the Russians.
According to a recent statement, His Beatitude Metropolitan Theodosius, the retired primate of the Orthodox Church in America, “is drawing near to the end of his earthly sojourn.”
Nearly five years after its foundation tone was laid, the Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw was festively consecrated on the eve of the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Following the decision of the Supreme Russian Church Council on April 17, 2019, and with the approval of the Russian Ministry of Culture, the Church has launched a program to digitally scan monuments of Church architecture in a state of disrepair and the creation of an all-Russian registry of such monuments.
While on a visit to Zagreb, Milorad Dodik, a Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, paid a friendly visit to Met. Porfirije on Wednesday, September 16, at the Katarina Brankovic Kantakuzin Serbian Orthodox Public Gymnasium, reports the Metropolis of Zagreb.
“It’s the main reason I moved,” Jackson told the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Trinitas TV. “I have been praying for years for an Orthodox monastery to be founded in Ireland.”
Jvari Monastery is one of the great jewels of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Built in the 6th century near the ancient capital of Mtskheta, its Church of the Holy Cross is a rare case of an early medieval Georgian church that has survived nearly unchanged till today.
After more than a century, the construction and beautification work in the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade and around the building are in the final phase.
The property has long served as the chancery of the OCA, as well as the primatial residence and home of the Church’s extensive archives.
This weekend, solemn services were held in Tokyo to mark several important anniversaries for the Japanese Orthodox Church
Elena Zoubareva
I recalled everybody—both the living and the departed, those from Boston, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Samara… All of us--both on the earth and in eternity, those who are visible and invisible—we are together in the same Church and make one family in Christ.
Two hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are currently on pilgrimage to the holy sites of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, “who brought us the blessing of St. Alexander Nevsky,” in the words of His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro.
Nun Kassiana (Kupalenko)
We must go to the light, and it will expel the darkness from our souls; but to plunge into darkness in order to see the light—that doesn’t happen.
