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July 15-19, 2024 - St Seraphim Cathedral/Protection of the Holy Virgin Parish - Santa Rosa, CA For the seventeenth year, the Orthodox Church in America has organized a Diaconal Liturgical Practicum to help in the formation of deacons a...
New Campus Staff Announced for Arizona State University and the Greater Atlanta Area Brookline, Mass. – July 8, 2024 – Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) is thrilled to announce the expansion of its Campus Missionary Initiative, with ne...
By: Archpriest Barnabas Powell, Diocesan Vocations Director, July 5th, 2024 “Seminary” comes from the Latin word seminarium, which means a plant nursery or a seed plot. This term can be further refined as a plot of soil where plants are ra...
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place” (Acts 2:1). On Saturday evening, June 22, and the morning of Sunday, June 23, the Cathedral of the Diocese of the West celebrated the great ...
Dear friends, St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church in Concord, CA is pleased to host our annual summer singles mixer on August 3, 2024. Last summer, 33% of attendees met a person they planned to see again, so we're praying that thi...
To the Reverend Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of the West, Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! At the end of our forty-day sojourn through Great Lent, and before we are plunged into the darkness and horrors of Holy Week, w...
Pacific Central Deanery Young Adults Participate in CrossRoad 2.0 April 3-7, 2024 Pompano Beach, FL Priest Andrew Smith (Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church, Menlo Park, CA) and five young adults from the Pacific Central Deanery rec...
The Homily from Fr. David Morrison at the Funeral Liturgy for Fr. Anthony Karbo: Your Eminence, dear clergy brothers, Matushka and the dear Karbo family, and all of you beloved ones of God, Christ is in our midst! Fr...
Upon the Falling Asleep of Archpriest Anthony Karbo Archbishop Benjamin of San Francisco and the West March 22, 2024 In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. It has been a long service and I promise n...
2024 Lenten Message from His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin To the Reverend Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of the West, Dearly beloved, Great Lent historically was the time of catechism in the life of the Church. Those answering...
