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 […]

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 […]

The Polish Council of Bishops’ Exhortation to Their Priests and Monastics During the Pandemic On Tuesday, November 3, the Polish Council of Bishops met in Warsaw under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland. Among other matters, the hierarchs discussed the life of the Church in this extended time of […]

Bishop Irenei (Steenberg) Photo: gefter.ru     In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters: we are living now in a moment that demands faith — and not faith in ourselves, or in our civil structures, in governments or in the wisdom of men. We are living in […]

Priest Andrei Chizhenko A sin is confessed, but it continues to bother your conscience. What should you do? Must it be confessed a second time? Fr. Andrei Chizhenko examines the issue. Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov. Conscience The holy fathers compare sin with a weed in a garden, and the garden, accordingly, with the heart. They spoke […]

OPEN LETTER to the Honourable Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Open Letter to The Honourable Gavin Newsom, Governor of California from His Eminence Kyrill Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America  in light of the decree issued by the Governor of California  that forbids choral singing in churches. Your Excellency, I hereby express my protest against the recent prohibition […]

Commemorated on June 21 Troparion & Kontakion On the second Sunday after Pentecost, each local Orthodox Church commemorates all the saints, known and unknown, who have shone forth in its territory. Accordingly, the Orthodox Church in America remembers the saints of North America on this day. Saints of all times, and in every country are […]