The parish also provides gifts for oncopediatric patients every year, holding a toy fair to raise funds, and organizes pilgrimages and excursions for the children.
On February 23, Elder Savvas of Mt. Athos, one of the most beloved spiritual fathers in Greece today, offered a spiritual talk at the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia’s Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary in Jordanville, New York.
The monastery, once devastated and flooded, is again becoming a place of prayer, monastic feats, and spiritual nourishment for people.
The Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen hosted a pan-Orthodox celebration over the weekend, gathering hierarchs, clergy, and faithful from various jurisdictions.
Seven hierarchs representing four Orthodox jurisdictions came together in Chicago on Sunday evening for the annual tradition of Pan-Orthodox Vespers in honor of the feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.
The local Orthodox have been prayerfully defending their cathedral against seizure by the schismatics of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” for several weeks now.
A monastery in north-central North Macedonia was desecrated, vandalized, and robbed recently.
On the feast day of St Polycarp, the first Saturday in the Great Fast, pilgrims from the Liverpool Orthodox Student Society undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Island of Lindesfarne—one of the most important sites in the history of Orthodoxy in the British Isles in the first millennium.
“Through this acquisition, St. Calinic of Cernica Parish affirms its mission to preserve and transmit the Orthodox faith, providing the Romanians in Southampton with a place for prayer, fellowship, and spiritual continuity,” the Archdiocese writes.
The project aims to popularize significant churches and monasteries in the region.
Orthodox Christians have an opportunity to contribute to the construction of a new chapel in Missouri that is intended to eventually be used by a local mission parish and that will pay tribute to an 18-year-old Orthodox girl who has only a short time to live.
St. Anthony’s was founded in the summer of 1995 by Elder Ephraim, a spiritual child of St. Joseph the Hesychast and former abbot of the Athonite Philotheou Monastery.
St. Herman Theological Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska, was blessed with a spiritually uplifting week-long visit from His Grace Bishop Alexei of Sitka and All Alaska earlier this month.
The Greek Orthodox faithful of Goumenissa in northern Greece celebrated the 50th anniversary of the return and re-enthronement of their beloved wonderworking and myrrh-streaming icon of Panagia Groumenissa on Sunday.
Despite it being a weekday, the church was filled with believers who came to worship God and honor St. Seraphim.
The Orthodox flock of Chernivtsi have been defending their cathedral against seizure for more than a week now.
The new president has served the seminary as Academic Dean and professor of Church History since 2018.
Sergei Mudrov
In 2017, the last nuns left the monastery—they were no longer able to maintain the huge building. But the will of God, as it turned out, was for this building to serve another purpose: Once the Catholics left, the building welcomed its new residents, this time—the Orthodox.
“The religious procession is a special tradition that strengthens faith, unites people, and sanctifies the land that we love and pray for,” the diocese concludes.
Hierarchs and clergy of several Local Churches came together in Bosnia over the weekend as the Serbian Orthodox Church commemorated the anniversary of the repose of the noted theologian Bishop Atanasije (Jevtić).
