Archpriest John Klingel
What then is the alternative to celebrating in the absence of the laity, as has been authorized and required during this pandemic?
Vasile Banescu, a spokesman for the Romanian Patriarchate, denounced billboards depicting doctors and nurses as “saints” with coronavirus-shaped halos as a blasphemous “visual mistreatment of Christian iconography” on Wednesday.
Fr. Gennady Butko, a cleric of the Minsk Diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, reposed in the Lord at the age of 57, after a serious illness caused by the coronavirus.
Authorities plan to reopen the churches in two stages, with parishioners being allowed to enter churches for personal prayers beginning May 4, and Divine services resuming in full from June 1.
Archimandrite Pachomy (Belkoff)
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In the following article, Archimandrite Pachomy (Belkoff) of St. Sabbas Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in Harper Woods, Michigan, explains how the monastery was able to remain open throughout all of Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha, and what joy and grace was experienced by the hundreds who worshiped the Risen Lord there.