The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has released its Encyclical for the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Read the full text below:   Sunday of Orthodoxy 2020 “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man” (John 1:51)…

During their February 27th meeting, the Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops USA (ACOB) appointed Metropolitan Tikhon as Chair of the Committee for Monastic Communities and Archbishop Benjamin as Chair of the Committee for Liturgy. The Committee for Monastic Communities is tasked with archiving and cataloging, as well as studying and comparing…

At the instruction of the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov) visited the Syrian representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross based…

Resources (PDF) His Eminence’s letter Message to the congregation Letter from Antiochian Women Vice President​ Beloved Antiochian Woman of our God-Protected Archdiocese: This month, “Women Month” as we commonly refer to it in the Archdiocese, coincides with the beginning and first part of the Great Fast and always includes the Great Feast of the Annunciation….

Koliva: Definition Koliva is a dish, consisting of boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, koliva is blessed during funerals, as well as during the memorial service (mnemosyno) that is performed at various intervals after a person’s death and on special…

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The Basilica of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem will be temporarily closed for precautionary reasons, following the confirmation of a series of Covid-19 virus infections in the West Bank, an unnamed ecclesiastical spokesman said. The health minister of the Palestinian Authority has called for churches and mosques to temporarily suspend services for the faithful,…

A new Orthodox chapel will soon adorn the stark Antarctic landscape, as Russian Orthodox Archbishop, His Eminence Kallistrat, of Gorno-Altai and Chemal, late last month consecrated the site for a future chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker. There are already at least two Orthodox chapels and one church on the earth’s southernmost continent…

Sunday, March 8, marks the Sunday of Orthodoxy, commemorating the restoration of the Holy Icons in 843 by the widow Empress Theodora, together with the Patriarch Methodius This ever-memorable monarch venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the presence of Patriarch Methodius and other confessors and righteous men. A synodical and con-celebratory Divine…