MCCANDLESS, PA – Police are investigating a fatal car crash in the parking lot of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in McCandless, WPXI 11 News reported on December 4. The black “SUV managed to travel across a major North Hills road and crash into the parking lot… killing a man inside,” WPXI 11 News reported,…
Pantanassa Monastery is in grave danger right now, threatened by an out of control bushfire that authorities fear to be unstoppable. The fire is at the door step of the Holy place and every step has been taken to save the monastery with the use of sprinklers and SES ground support. The nearby St Dionysios…
On December 4, the feast day of the Entry of the Holy Theotokos into the Temple, His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, officiated a Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, reported Patriarchia.ru. After the service, the Patriarch delivered a sermon, in which he spoke about religious upbringing of…
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon will travel to Moscow this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Church of Saint Catherine-in-the-fields as the representation of the Orthodox Church in America to the Church of Russia. Metropolitan Tikhon will be joined by His Eminence Archbishop David of Sitka, Archimandrite Andrei, Bishop-elect of Cleveland, Auxiliary to His…
On Wednesday, November 21/ December 4, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Entry of Theotokos into the Temple at the Central Monastery of the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood with the participation in prayer of His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and at the Holy Monastery of Megali Panagia which is dedicated to this feast…
My dear spiritual Children, While I’m still în charge of my faculties, I’d like to give you some advice. From when I was a child, I was always sinning. When my mother sent me to watch the animals up on the mountain, (my father had gone to America to work on the Panama Canal for…
The feast day of Saint Sebastian of Jackson was liturgically celebrated at Saint Sava Church in Jackson, northern California, on Saturday, November 30/17, 2019. This parish, the oldest one of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America, built in 1894, is the home of its founder’s relics. This gathering was presided by Bishop Maxim of Western…
On Dec. 4, 2019, His Holiness the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte became an honorary member of the Slavic Literary and Art Academy. The award ceremony took place during the presentation of the international anthology “Hleb nash nashushtnii” (which in English would be translated – Our daily bread), which included poems by famous Bulgarian and foreign writers…
On the eve of the Normandy format summit, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with representatives of churches and religious organizations of Ukraine. The Head of State thanked the hierarchs for their joint address to the inhabitants of the temporarily occupied territories, as well as for the work the Holy Fathers do for Ukrainians. In the context…