Met. Athanasios responded that the award is an honor for the entire Church: “The Church is the one that supports us all and is our mother and is the nurturer and guardian of every city and every homeland.”
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia published an epistle for the Nativity Fast earlier this week, calling on the faithful, against the background of the wars in Ukraine and the Holy Land, to “devote all [their] strength to the manifestation of Christian brotherly love, and to providing real aid to our fellow man.”
The service was celebrated for people who had left the Church for Baptist and Pentecostal groups but later renounced their heresies and submitted petitions to return home to the Orthodox Church.
The court’s ruling from October was published today on the site of the Moscow Diocese.
Bishop Alexei (Trader) of Alaska
In following this path, Father Michael did not hide the teachings of the Alaskan elders and the lives of native peoples under a bushel basket, but rather he put it on a candlestand so that their light could be seen throughout the entire world.