The Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John Commemorated on August 29 Troparion & Kontakion The Beheading of the Prophet, Forerunner of the Lord, John the Baptist: The Evangelists Matthew (Mt.14:1-12) and Mark (Mark 6:14-29) provide accounts about the martyric end of John the Baptist in the year 32 after the Birth of […]

Commemorated on August 15 Troparion & Kontakion The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary: After the Ascension of the Lord, the Mother of God remained in the care of the Apostle John the Theologian, and during his journeys She lived at the home of his parents, near the Mount of Olives. […]

Friday April 23 9:00 AM Church Clean-up 6:15 Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts ———————End of Lent———————— Saturday April 24 Saturday of Lazarus 9:00 AM Baptisms 10:15 AM(ish) Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom 5:00 PM Great Vespers Sunday April 25 Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) 9:40 AM Hours 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy of […]

Philadelphia, March 29, 2021 Photo: holycrosswilliamsport.org Archbishop Mark of Philadelphia and Eastern America will allow no vaccine bullying in his parishes, but instead insists upon respecting the free choice of every parishioner. According to a new directive from the hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America, no one is to be asked if they have […]

To the Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Diocese of the West: But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse. But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who […]

The first week of Great Lent is a time of special prayer and strict abstinence. During the first four days—from Monday to Thursday—the Great Canon of Repentance of St. Andrew of Crete is read in nearly every Orthodox Church.   Lenten service in Sretensky Monastery. Photo by M. Rodionov, Pravoslavie.ru Many Orthodox Christians live in […]

Robert A. SchumacherJanuary 10, 1942 – February 3, 2021 Robert A Schumacher (Subdeacon Athanasios) passed into life on 3 February 2021 after a valiant fight against kidney cancer. He was born January 10, 1942 in Bronx, New York to Raymond Schumacher and Mildred Barr. Raised in Lakewood, New Jersey, Bob attended schools there and upon […]

On Thursday, December 31, 2020, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America has issued an encyclical entitled, “We Rejoice Even in Tribulation”: An Encyclical of Hope. The Holy Synod offers this work out of love and gratitude to its faithful at the end of this year. The Synod also intends for […]

November 27, 2020 by Jim Connolly A good man, when he finds a good thing, wants to share it. (Monk Arseniye) I was raised in a home that did not talk much about God and therefore I had very little exposure to the Christian faith. In 1974, when I was 18 years old and a […]

Sermon on the Gospel reading about the Gadarene demoniac, November 15, 2020 Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov      In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit The event we remember today is shocking—the casting out of demons from the two Gadarene demoniacs. No one could handle them, and they […]