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 [...]
On 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 [...]
On Sunday, February 7, Bishop BENJAMIN, Priest Christopher Swanson and Priest John Anderson (The Diocese of the South,) were blessed by His Eminence, Metropolitan VLADIMIR of St. Petersburg and Lagoda to serve the Divine Liturgy in the Kazan Cathedral with one of his vicar bishops, Bishop MARKEL.
The Kazan Cathedral was built at the beginning of [...]
Thursday, February 4, Bishop BENJAMIN and Mr. Barry Migyanko arrived in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia to take part in the visit of a delegation from the Sister Churches Program of Seattle to St. Petersburg (SCPS). The work of the SCPS began in the late 1980’s when members of several Christian Churches of the [...]
I acknowledge that I have received USD1.200,00 as a donation to the Hospice from Bishop Benjamin on behalf of Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, Denver CO.
Ninety persons gathered this year atop 11,300 foot Monarch Pass for the annual Blessing of Waters “Colorado Style”. A beautiful, cloudless day, we were blessed to have Bishop-elect Michael Dahulich, present Dean of St. Tikhon’s Seminary, edify us with words on the significance of beseeching God’s infinite Grace and mercy upon us inherent in the [...]
On November 21-22, Bishop Benjamin visited Saint Katherine the Great Martyr Mission in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle. The parish feastday of Saint Katherine was occurring later that week (November 24), so the bishop requested that it be celebrated during his visit. The small church was full during the Resurrectional Vigil on the evening before, and [...]
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 [...]
APPEAL OF METROPOLITAN JONAH FOR HELP IN ALLEVIATING THE SUFFERING IN HAITI
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, faithful hierarchs, clergy and laity of the Orthodox Church in America,
All of us are familiar with the saying, “one picture is worth a thousand words.” And, during the past few days, as all of us have seen countless [...]
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