When you live somewhere as sparsely populated and distant from the centers of Orthodoxy as Southern Colorado, you don’t take Pan-Orthodox events for granted. If there are winter storm warnings and travel advisories on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, you still climb into your car with your family and an eager catechumen, and give yourself three [...]
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Rocky Mountain Orthodoxy VespersWhen you live somewhere as sparsely populated and distant from the centers of Orthodoxy as Southern Colorado, you don’t take Pan-Orthodox events for granted. If there are winter storm warnings and travel advisories on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, you still climb into your car with your family and an eager catechumen, and give yourself three [...]
Colorado Winter Retreat
In a world where God and church can be distorted to appear just as commercial and superficial as your next big pop culture fad, Orthodox Christianity is not something easily comprehended, nor accepted. Today’s youth culture tells us to shun committment and spurn truth in favor of artificial replacements, and often it’s all too easy [...]
Fremont Mission moves to new home
On Sunday, December 20, 2009, the faithful parishioners of St. Christina’s Mission in Fremont, California, celebrated the last Divine Liturgy in the little “house church” that we had been using until a suitable replacement could be found. Following the liturgy, a procession led by our pastor, Father Michael Anderson, took all the church appointments to [...]
Hierarchical Visits
Travelogue 3: St. PetersburgOn Tuesday, February 9, the delegation from SCPS traveled through the outskirts of the City of St. Petersburg into what is still known as the Leningrad Region. The first stop was the St. Catherine Church in Murino. The small church was built on what was the estate of the Woronzoff family. Archpriest Nikolai Teterjatnikov and [...]
Orthodox News
Fr David Lowell brings message of FOCUS North America to Diocese of the WestFr David Lowell, Orthodox Action of Volunteer Director of Orthodoxy’s newest charitable organization, FOCUS North America, brings the group’s message to Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco on Saint Thomas Sunday.














