Building Hope – In Us! Project Mexico 2010
After spending 34 hours in a caravan with 25 other people from Colorado, I arrived at Project Mexico during the big OBT(Orthodox Basic Training) session. Starting out the week I had the assumption that I was there to give to others, show them hope, service and love. This has been my goal, having been on [...]
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Parish Life
Building Hope – In Us! Project Mexico 2010After spending 34 hours in a caravan with 25 other people from Colorado, I arrived at Project Mexico during the big OBT(Orthodox Basic Training) session. Starting out the week I had the assumption that I was there to give to others, show them hope, service and love. This has been my goal, having been on [...]
Central CA Coast Visitations
Seventy-five faithful from three Central Coast California parishes welcomed His Grace, Bishop BENJAMIN for the celebration of Feast of the Annunciation at the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Santa Maria, CA. His Grace presided at both the Vigil on the 24th and the Vesperal Divine Liturgy on the 25th. In addition to the rector of [...]
Rocky Mountain Orthodoxy Vespers
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 [...]
Hierarchical Visits
Feast of St. John of San Francisco and ShanghaiBishop Benjamin celebrated the patronal feast of Monastery of St. John of San Francisco and Shanghai, Manton, CA with the monastery brotherhood in the little chapel that formerly stood at Point Reyes, CA. The monastery is an important place of spiritual respite in our midst and was founded by Metropolitan Jonah in 1996.
Archimandrite Meletios and the brothers have continued to grow as a community and have become prominent in the resurgence of monastic life in Orthodox America. The brotherhood includes both American and foreign born brothers working out their salvation together.
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.
