Evgenia Rozina
Children who first came to church only for Sunday school gradually led their own parents to Christ. That is one of the remarkable paradoxes of our time.
Rohia Monastery in northern Romania marked 100 years of monastic life on Monday with a series of liturgical and cultural events.
Archimandrite Nicanor is abbot of the Chernogorski Monastery of Sts. Cosmas and Damian the Unmercenary Physicians, near the village of Giginci, Breznik municipality, Pernik region, Sofia Eparchy.
The clinic will serve the needs of monks and pilgrims and will be funded through the Region of Central Macedonia's ESPA program with 3.4 million euros.
The Dubno icon is regarded as one of Volyn’s best-known sacred images.
The feast of St. Vladimir the Great and the Baptism of Rus’ was festively celebrated throughout Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus on July 28, with major celebrations held in Moscow and Kiev.
The feast of St. Vladimir the great and the Baptism of Rus’ was festively celebrated at Belarus’ St. Elisha-Larishevsky Monastery with a Baptismal Liturgy in the Neman River. The tradition of celebrating Baptismal Liturgies in the river began in 2018.
Anastasia Lutcenko
The more noise fills our lives, the more important it becomes to recover the ability to hear silence. It is in silence that we most often encounter God.
The Devina Voda Monastery in Kosovo and Metohija held its first monastic tonsure since its founding, on the feast of the Icon of the Theotokos Of Three Hands, the monastery’s patronal feast, on July 25.
An Orthodox family is seeking financial assistance after a fire destroyed their home on May 4, leaving the family, including three children, without a place to live.
Archaeologists excavating in the İznik District of Turkey’s northwestern Bursa Province have uncovered structural remains believed to belong to the Church of St. Neophytos, the church that hosted the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, offering what researchers describe as the strongest archaeological evidence to date for the location of the historic gathering.
The evening before, on July 23, participants in the traditional procession from the city of Mogilev arrived at the monastery at the conclusion of the All-Night Vigil. About 300 pilgrims covered the 25-mile route from the Convent of St. Nicholas in Mogilev to the Barkolabovo Convent, carrying a copy of the wonderworking Barkolabovo Icon.
The celebrations took place at the Archangel Gabriel Representation of the Antiochian Church, marking the patronal feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.
Due to ongoing restoration work at the historic parish church of the patron saint, this year’s celebration was held for the fourth consecutive year at the Metropolitan Church of St. Demetrios in Chalkida.
The current pilgrimage follows, in a small way, that historic missionary path in reverse, with seminarians being formed for service in Alaska traveling to the land from which St. Innocent departed for the Aleutian Islands.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the rite of great consecration and the Divine Liturgy yesterday, July 26. He consecrated the church’s central altar as well as 20 antimensia.
The program is structured in three phases: “Accelerating Church Growth,” “Everyone is an Evangelist and Catechist,” and “Church Growth and Catechism in Our Time.” Course topics include biblical, historical, theological, and liturgical review; group dynamics management; catechetical resources; and stewardship and devotion to the local parish.
He was consecrated as Bishop of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand on July 15, 2006, in the Holy Archangel Michael Cathedral in Belgrade at the hands of His Eminence Archbishop Amfilohije of Montenegro and 16 other bishops. He served the Australian Diocese for a decade, until he was appointed as Bishop of Eastern America in 2016.
Numerous Romanian and Scandinavian faithful from the Jutland Peninsula and from other regions of Northern Europe were present for the service.
With more than 180 parishioners and dozens of new inquirers, visitors, and catechumens joining each month, ASONA is experiencing unprecedented growth.
