| Archive DECR representatives take part in”Protecting the Future” International Conference 24 November 2021 year 18:25 The 3rd “Protecting the Future” International Conference on Combating Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Racism was held in Moscow on November 22-23, 2021. Attending the opening session with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), was Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), DECR deputy chairman. Yuri Kanner, President of the Russian Jewish Congress; Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation; Kairat Abdrakhmanov, OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities; and Vitaly Suchkov, head of the National Policy and Interregional Relations Department of Moscow City Government, were among the speakers. The first plenary session was followed by panels and youth sessions on preventing xenophobia, antisemitism, islamophobia, racism, their media coverage and influence on culture as well as the role of religious leaders in countering these kinds of intolerance. The second plenary session on “Religious leadership and its influence on interethnic and interfaith tensions” was held in the evening of November 22 with Borukh Gorin, head of external relations department of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, as moderator. Rev. Dimitry Safonov, DECR secretary for interreligious relations and executive secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia, presented a report on interreligious and peacemaking ministry of religious leaders. On November 23, Archimandrite Philaret and Rev. Dimitry Safonov attended the round table of patrons and philanthropists on financing projects against xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism. The moderator was Viktor Vekselberg, consul of the Russian Jewish Congress for Combating Antisemitism and a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Congress. The Conference was organized by the Russian Jewish Congress with the support of the Moscow Government, the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and the World Jewish Congress. Attending the conference were religious leaders, experts, and state and public figures from forty countries of the world. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Orthodox Health Plan announces open enrollment period through December 30 Syosett, NY, November 28, 2011 In a memo issued recently by Priest Constantine L. Sitaras, Chairperson of the Joint Orthodox Health Plans Committee, it was announced that clergy and other qualified lay Church workers may join the Orthodox Health Plan Groups during the current open enrollment period that runs through December 30, 2011, with an effective date of coverage of January 1, 2012. The Orthodox Health Plan [OHP] is the official health plan for the clergy of the Orthodox Church in America, as well as the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, the Diocese of the Armenian Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church, and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Archpriest Eric G. Tosi, OCA Secretary, represents the OCA on OHP’s board. “The Orthodox Health Plan is a PPO Plan which offers our clergy and lay employees the broadest and most flexible coverage and includes prescription, vision, and dental benefits,” Father Constantine notes in his memo. “Our health insurance carrier is Aetna, one of the single largest healthcare providers in the nation. Some of the advantages of your enrollment are broad medical coverage, prescription drugs benefits, parish transfer without interruption of coverage, just to name a few. You can find a full description of the plan, participating physicians and hospitals, at the web site . A PDF of enrollment forms and plan details may be downloaded here . “It is important to stress that you should not discontinue any coverage you currently have until you have received confirmation that your participation has been approved,” Father Constantine continues. “In order to be accepted, your completed enrollment form with your first month’s premium must reach the Plan Administrator no later than the 30th of December. If you parish will be paying your monthly premiums, we will also need a dated, signed letter on church letterhead stating to bill them. All completed enrollment material must be returned to the Orthodox Health Plan, 929 Kings Highway East, 1st Floor, Fairfield, CT 06825, in advance of the deadline. OCA clergy who may have questions and concerns are invited to direct them to Father Eric at egtosi@oca.org ; 516-922-0550. For additional general information on the plan, enrollment forms, or related matters, please call the Plan Administrator at the GDC Financial Group at 1-203-367-4070, or visit OHP’s web site . Official website of the Orthodox Church in America 29 ноября 2011 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Stone of Scone and Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey (engraving of the nineteenth century) St. Fergus is venerated as the heavenly patron of Glamis and of the town of Wick in Highland, one of the northernmost towns of Scotland, where the holy bishop founded a church or a monastery. In Aberdeenshire there is a village called St. Fergus where this saint most probably preached. Finally, the village of Halkirk on River Thurso (Highland) is linked to our saint who built a church there. In ancient times there existed a cathedral in Halkirk, which in the thirteenth century was transferred to Dornoch. Today there is a ruined Halkirk Kirk in the village, which once was used as a chapel of the bishop’s palace. Its patron-saint was either St. Fergus or St. Catherine. Holy Fathers Machar, Drostan, Nathalan and Fergus, pray to God for us! Dmitry Lapa 18 декабря 2016 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Holy Hierarch Flannan of Killaloe Dmitry Lapa Holy Hierarch Flannan of Killaloe Commemorated: December 18/31 Dmitry Lapa The holy man called Flannan who lived in the seventh century is equally venerated in Ireland and Scotland. A Family of Saints: Sts. Kentigerna, Fillan and Comgan of Scotland Dimitry Lapa A Family of Saints: Sts. Kentigerna, Fillan and Comgan of Scotland Dmitry Lapa Amazingly, Celtic holiness is unique for its “families of saints”, which were sometimes very large and included representatives of several generations. There was the spiritual relation between saints; but besides this, there were many saints who were relatives by blood: holy parents and children and grandchildren, holy brothers and sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces. St. Oda of Brabant, the Blind Princess of Scotland Commemorated November 28/December 11 St. Oda of Brabant, the Blind Princess of Scotland Commemorated November 28/December 11 When she awoke, she saw the sun shining for the first time in her life. Grateful for the miracle that God had performed through St. Lambert, Oda promised to dedicate the rest of her life to the service of God. Holy Hierarch Kentigern (Mungo) of Strathclyde, Bishop of Glasgow, Wonderworker Commemorated January 13/26 Holy Hierarch Kentigern (Mungo) of Strathclyde, Bishop of Glasgow, Wonderworker Commemorated January 13/26 Dmitry Lapa St. Kentigern was much loved and venerated by the people for his gift of working miracles. Once he brought back to life a tame robin of St. Serf, which had been killed by jealous monks. Another time he miraculously lit a fire in St. Serf " s monastery, which had earlier gone out. Комментарии Lubov 18 декабря 2016, 18:00 Holy Fathers Machar, Drostan, Nathalan and Fergus, pray to God for us! © 1999-2016 Православие.Ru |
| 293 Won Pil Kim. «Father " s course and our life of faith». HSAUWC Publications, Lbndon, 1982. p.l 1 294 Сборник рассказов, напечатанных ранее в журналах Церкви Объединений, тенеты ем. it http://www/eul.ed,it/ue/hlktory 295 Hak Ja Han Moon. «Your responsibility is enormous» в журнале «Today " s World», December 1993. p.9. 302 Hak Ja Han Moon. «Your responsibility is enormous» в журнале «Today " s World», December 1993. p.11. 303 S.M. Moon. «Liquidation or the completion of the dispensation of salvation. 7.06.92 (unofficial notes)», p.5. 304 Примером могут служить календари на 1994 год в журнале «Today " s World», December 1993 и на 1995 год в газете «Family Ties». October/November/December 1994. Vol.l. No.5 и календарь на 1997 год – см. Unification Church Calendar в Internet – http://www/calB/com/unlfletitidtl/hiile/eal 1997/html. 306 Один из известных мунистов, Джон Бермане, довольно подробно рассказывая о своём опыте «сотрудничества» с духовным миром, уверяет, что именно благодаря поддержке духовных предков он нашел многих новых членов ЦО (он имеет тридцать «духовных детей»). – См. Бермане, Джон. «Свидетельствование. Обращаясь к духовному миру». АСД-МХ. 1995. 310 Munbcwcgung – 1992», «Handbuch Religiose Gcmcinschaftcn, IV». Gutersloher Veriagchaus, Gutersloh , 1992. Стр. 829. 313 Выйдя по окончании церемонии, Мун сказал слова, видимо, означающие, что Хын Джин был еще жив: «В этот момент жизнь Хын Джин Нима подвешена на ниточке. Я спокоен; что бы ни случилось, я знаю, что Бог достигнет победы Его провидения в мире». См. S.M. Moon. «Trufc love». HSA-UWC.1989. р.62. 318 Kwang-Kyn Lee. «Ancestor Worship and Kinship Structure in Korea» в книге «Religion and Ritual in Korean Society». Berkeley. 1987. p.66. 319 Kwang-Kyn Lee. «Ancestor Worship and Kinship Structure in Korea» в книге «Religion and Ritual in Korean Society». Berkeley. 1987. pp. 57–58. 321 Многие наблюдатели (как положительно, так и неодобрительно оценивающие деятельность ЦО) из-за этой особенности часто даже не замечают действительного религиозного характера Церкви Объединения. |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk begins his working trip to the USA 12 November 2021 year 11:18 On November 10, 2021, with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived for a working visit to the United States of America. At John Kennedy Airport, the DECR chairman was met by Archpriest Alexander Rentel, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, Hegumen Nikodim (Balyasnikov) and Rev. Mark Rashkov, clerics of the St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral, and Mr. S. K. Ovsyannikov, Russian Federation Consul General in New York. In the morning of November 11, Metropolitan Hilarion met with the founder and president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Rabbi Arthur Schneier. Founded in 1965 with the aim to develop dialogue and good relations between traditional world religions, the foundation is one of the most popular and influential interreligious organizations in the USA. They discussed a wide range of issues of mutual concern. Metropolitan Hilarion spoke in particular about how the Russian Orthodox Church is carrying out her service in the situation of restrictions caused by the coronavirus infection pandemic and about the present state of inter-Orthodox relations. On the same day, Metropolitan Hilarion came to St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary for an academic-theological conference “Study Scriptures” devoted to the English translation of Metropolitan Hilarion’s six-volume work entitled “Jesus Christ. The Life and Teaching”. As of now, four volumes out of six have come out. Leading American scholars working in New Testament studies have gathered to discuss issues dealt with in the work. Metropolitan Hilarion will present to the conference the key paper. The program of the DECR chairman’s trip to the USA includes the celebration of the Liturgy at the church of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, a visit to the St. Tikhon Seminary in Pennsylvania and the co-celebration of the Divine Liturgy with His Beatitude Tikhon, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, meetings with the Primate and hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in America and with representatives of other Christian confessions. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk has arrived in Egypt 7 November 2022 year 12:18 On November 6, 2022, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, arrived in Cairo. The aim of the visit is to meet with His Holiness Tawadros II, Patriarch of the Coptic Church, in the days when the Primate of the Coptic Church celebrates his 70th birthday and the 10th anniversary of his election to the Patriarchal see. Upon his arrival, Metropolitan Anthony visited Cairo’s historical Christian city centre to venerate its shrines. He also went to the famous ‘Suspended Church’ (al-Muallaqa), which was built on the ruins of the ancient Roman fortress ‘Egyptian Babylon’ and for a long time had been Coptic Patriarchs’ cathedral. He also visited the Church of Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus to venerate these saints of the first centuries of the Christian era. The church was built in the 4th century over the grotto in which the Holy Family stayed for three month during their forced flight to Egypt to escape Herod’s persecution. Metropolitan Anthony also visited the church built in that grotto the first foundation of which dates back to 58 AD. Then he visited the church of Protomartyr Barbara in which a part of her holy relics and a part of the relics of Ss Juliana and Damian and other saints are kept. His Eminence also visited the Convent of Holy and Great Martyr George the Victory-Bearer (Mar-Gigris) where he was warmly welcomed by Mother Superior Thecla who expressed great joy over the visit to the convent by a high-ranking representative of the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Anthony will meet with His Holiness Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II on November 7. During his trip, the DECR chairman is accompanied by Hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov), DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations, Rev. Alexander Ershov, assistant to the DECR chairman, and Dr Anton Milad, adviser to the Coptic Patriarch. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Primate of Orthodox Church in America hold telephone conversation 22 December 2020 year 09:41 On December 21, 2020, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia spoke on the phone with His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada. The Primates exchanged greetings on the occasion of the upcoming feast of the Nativity of Christ, which the Orthodox Church in America will celebrate on December 25, according to the Revised Julian calendar. During the conversation, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill shared with His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon warm memories of his visits to America, including Alaska. As His Holiness noted, the year 2020 marks a jubilee: fifty years ago, on April 10, 1970, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow and All Russia, of blessed memory, signed the Tomos of Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill invited His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon to visit Russia when the sanitary and epidemiological situation allows it. Having expressed condolences over the demise of the former OCA Primate, Metropolitan Theodosius (Lazor), who fell asleep in the Lord on October 19, 2020, the Primate of the Russian Church shared recollections of his meetings with Metropolitan Theodosius over the years. His Holiness also offered condolences to His Beatitude Tikhon over one more loss that had befallen the Orthodox Church in America: Archbishop David of Sitka and Alaska passed away in November 2020. His Holiness mentioned, in particular, that this hierarch had been among those accompanying His Beatitude Tikhon on his visit to Moscow in 2019. His Beatitude Tikhon expressed condolences over the demise of Metropolitan Feofan of Kazan and Tatarstan, with whom he had been personally acquainted. During the conversation, His Holiness Kirill noted with gratitude the position of the Synod of the Orthodox Church in America on the situation in Ukraine. The Primates discussed how the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church in America were coping with the restrictions caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Among other issues raised during the conversation was the completion of restoration works at the Church of St.Catherine the Great Martyr in-the-Fields – the OCA Representation in Moscow. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Пн 5 October 2021 year 10:52 21 September 2021 year 11:19 During his visit to Hungary, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople stated that the Cathedral Church of the Russian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Budapest and Hungary - the Cathedral of the Dormition in Budapest, “during the sad and hazy days of the Communist regime, because of the shady and perfidious machinations and unbearable pressure of the Soviet power, was forcibly purloined and wholly unlawfully and uncanonically subjected to the Moscow Patriarchate, which to this day continues to possess it sacrilegiously”. 25 August 2021 year 10:22 Having come to Ukraine, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople refused to talk with thousands of the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church meeting him at the building of Verhovna Rada in Kiev. During this visit which threatens to overgrow with conflicts and to exacerbate the church conflict in that country further, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Anthony of Borispol and Brovary spoke with Ria Novosti about what developments the canonical Church could expect and what could be done to meet them. 11 August 2021 year 16:05 1 August 2021 year 14:12 27 July 2021 year 16:13 26 July 2021 year 16:55 9 July 2021 year 17:54 29 June 2021 year 19:35 1 June 2021 year 11:21 25 January 2021 year 19:58 6 December 2020 year 18:29 Recently, the Patriarchate of Constantinople has become even more insistent that other Local Churches must recognise its absolute primacy and authority in the Orthodox world. The Greek mass media regularly publish articles and interviews on this topic, which are often blatantly tendentious. In his interview to RIA Novosti news agency, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made it clear if there are any grounds for Constantinople’s claims. 24 November 2020 year 09:40 18 November 2020 year 17:40 2 November 2020 year 20:14 Календарь ← 21 апреля 2024 г. (8 апреля ст.ст.) воскресенье 7 April 2024 year |
| Archive XIV International Film Festival ‘Russia Abroad’ opens in Moscow 8 November 2020 year 18:37 On November 7, 2020, the XIV International Film Festival ‘Russia Abroad’ was opened at the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad. The festival has been held since 2007 and represents a contest of fiction films and documentaries the aim of which is to introduce viewers to films devoted to the cultural and scientific legacy of the Russian diaspora, the history of World War I, the 1917 state coup d’état, the Civil War in Russia, and the problems of migration in general. This year the festival is held in online format and thanks to it its program can be assessed not only by Moscow residents, but also by people all over Russia as well as compatriots living abroad. The principal founders and organizers of the festival are the House of Russia Abroad and the Russian Way film studio with the support of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow City Department of Culture, and the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations. Messages of greetings were brought to the organizers and participants by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs S. Lavrov, and Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Affairs Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. The present film forum will show fiction and non-fiction films from ten countries including Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Sweden and the USA. In 2020, the organizers prepared screening and memorial evenings timed to various commemorative dates: centenary of the Russian exodus, centenary of the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, 75th anniversary of the Great Victory over nazism, Alexander Kuprin’s and Ivan Bunin’s 150th birthdays, American actor of Russian background Yul Byinner’s 100th birthday. Viewers will be introduced to little-known pages in the biographies of film director Andrey Tarkovsky, choreographer Boris Volkov, singer Alla Bayanova, writer Vladimir Nabokov, biologist Sergey Chakhotin, psychologist Yelena Antipova, who made a revolution in pedagogics, circus artist and ‘the strongest man on earth’ Alexander Zass, and other outstanding figures of the Russian diaspora. The jury of the film contest includes our compatriots representing creative professions from Australia, Belgium, Poland, Serbia, as well as Russian filmmakers. The Russia Abroad film festival will last till November 14. Its full program is available on the festival’s website. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrates Divine Liturgy at Holy Dormition Church in Beijing 24 November 2018 year 16:29 On the 23 rd – 24 th of November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made a brief stop in Beijing on his way from Seoul to Pyongyang. On the 24 th of November Vladyka Hilarion celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Dormition Church in the territory of the Russian Embassy in Beijing. Concelebrating with the DECR chairman was Hieromonk Innokenty (Kolesnikov), rector of the church. Praying at the service were Archbishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk and members of the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church that accompanied the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations on his visit. After the Liturgy Metropolitan Hilarion delivered a homily, saying in particular: “It gives me great pleasure to come to Beijing on this short visit on my way from South Korea to North Korea and to celebrate the Divine Liturgy here, on this place, sacred for us, where the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission used to be, and where 222 Chinese martyrs had suffered… We pray to the martyrs and confessors of this land so that the Lord may enlighten it with the light of Christ’s faith. We pray that the Orthodox faith may be preserved in this land. “I would like to convey to you blessings from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia who in his capacity as chairman of the Department for External Church Relations did much to revive the church life in the Chinese land. His Holiness continues to take unceasing care of the life of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church so that it might develop to the greatest extent possible in an atheistic state. I thank all of you for loving the church of God, for coming here and praying to the Lord. The Lord will award you for your labours and care for the church of God both in this life and in the life to come by granting you the Heavenly Kingdom in the life eternal and by enabling you in this life to partake of His Heavenly Kingdom through the Holy Mysteries and by enlightening your whole life with His Heavenly light.” That same day Metropolitan Hilarion departed for Pyongyang. Seeing off the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Beijing airport were Mr. Andrei Denisov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People’s Republic of China, and other representatives of the Russian Embassy. The Russian Orthodox Church’s delegation included Archbishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk, administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate’ parishes in the countries of East and Southeast Asia; Mr. Dmitry Petrovsky, DECR staff member; and subdeacons V. Lee and N. Sokolov. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
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