“We, the children of a great man, Metropolitan Longin of Bancheny, appeal to you with a big request—save our papa. Don’t judge him,” a group of orphans, most of him suffer from various disabilities, plead in a new video address to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
According to the Minister, if the Church doesn’t leave the territory of its own monastery, “a court case will be held to make an appropriate decision to remove obstacles to the Reserve’s use of the property.”
From April 27 to May 2, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Dubna made his first pastoral visit to Martinique, an island of the French West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.
The new holy habitation, named in honor of St. Gregory the Theologian, is being built in Kipoupoli in Peristeri, a suburb in western Athens.
St. Jacob was the most distinguished bishop and pastor of the Moldovan Church of the eighteenth century.
The world-renowned Holy Trinity Icon painted by St. Andrei Rublev in the 15th century arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Saturday, in time for the feast of Pentecost.
On Sunday, June 4, the great feast of Pentecost, a hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited the Holy Dormition-Pochaev Lavra in western Ukraine and concelebrated the festal Divine Liturgy.
Loren Holmes
The small, rough-hewn building looks like a log cabin and is easy to overlook next to the taller, brighter, onion-domed new St. Nicholas Church.
Since 2015, the Romanian Orthodox Church has commemorated the last Sunday in May as the Day of Romanians Everywhere, “a unique day with profound spiritual importance, reaffirming the Christian roots and traditions of the Romanian people.”
Met. Tikhon offered warm greetings to Met. Nicholas and his delegation and presented him with an icon diptych. Met. Nicholas, in turn, presented Met. Tikhon with a Panagia set.
The 15th-century icon initially found its home on the iconostasis of the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, founded by St. Sergius of Radonezh in the 14th century.
The parish was founded in 1923 by Fr. Alexander Shabashev, who managed to buy a plot of land with a house on the outskirts of the city.
A new church was consecrated in Odessa over the weekend for a parish that especially cares for the deaf and hearing impaired.
His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod, who has headed the monastery for 30 years, was initially given two months of house arrest in early April.
Elena Kucherenko
I can’t get used to the fact that Optina is a place where Heaven meets Earth; where grace is felt as you approach it; where the soul sings; and where the impossible becomes possible.
Authorities estimate that about 20,000 people visited the monastery throughout the day.
The feast of the Leavetaking of Pascha was a joyous day for the brotherhood of Holy Cross Monastery (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) in Wayne, West Virginia.
Elena Deshko
Did the people of Ivan’kovo notice a special kind of divine admonition in the fact that these two elderly people, a man and his wife, who were screening movies in a former church for decades, looking at the screen in front of the altar and helping others to do the same, suddenly became blind together, at the same time?
And here I am, standing on the stage with the school choir, and, as I look up, I see a wreath of soft cherubic faces showing through the white ceiling paint, as if through a white veil.
Despite the monastery’s best efforts, it is struggling to bring its construction project to completion, as means, resources, and income streams remain limited. The matter has become urgent, as the continuous exposure to harsh weather conditions weakens the structure.
