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Hieromonk InnocentSt. John's Monastery Spring has been unusually long and cool this year. Looking out the window as I write this, I see green grass and flowers everywhere. The wet, temperate weather has brought us a season to be remembered. Two weeks...
On Saturday, May 26, our cathedral community was joined by clergy and faithful from around the Bay Area to celebrate the glorious vigil of Pentecost with His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin. Following the vigil, we enjoyed a repast together and heard f...
Archpriest Vadim Pogrebniak, 80, Pastor Emeritus of Saint Spiridon Cathedral, Seattle, WA and former Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the West, fell asleep in the Lord on the afternoon of the Leavetaking of Pascha&mdash...
Our beloved former chancellor, Archpriest Ian MacKinnon, was awarded the dignity of wearing a priestly mitre and presented with a Synodal Gramota marking his 40th Anniversary of Priesthood and retirement at a hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Sunday, Ma...
by Priest Andrew Smith Each year, rain or shine, April or May, Old Calendar or New, the exciting and world changing cry of the Paschal Greeting, “Christ is risen!” ushers joy into all of our lives at the end of our candle-lit processions....
Monk CosmasSt. John of Shanghai Monastery Can the demons read our minds? Do they know what we are thinking? Do they know what we are feeling? Okay, those are trick questions. The Fathers say that the demons do not read our minds and cannot peer into ...
by Father Innocent, Abbot, St. John's Monastery Orthodox LIFE School 2018 “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This oft repeated adage carries a practical truth that can rightly be called common sense. Yet how often do we, as a Church...
During Great Lent this year, the Southern Colorado Greek and OCA parishes joined together on the theme of outreach and evangelism during the Sunday night Vespers in Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Calhan. A simple summary of the overall message : ...
“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might ...
by Archpriest Lawrence Russell Most of us remember the first time we heard or read the word “oxymoron,” a funny-sounding, funny-looking word; right? Oxymoron is a combination of two Greek words: oxys (sharp) and moros (stupid). Together, ...
