| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation OCA Chaplains deployed to Middle East admin 05 April 2013 April 4, 2013 Two priests of the Orthodox Church in America recently were deployed to Afghanistan to provide ministry to members of the US Armed Forces. Priest Paul Rivers, US Army, Chaplain (CPT), in the active duty component in Germany, and Priest George Hill, US Army, Chaplain (MAJ), in the active duty component in Fort Bragg, NC, have been deployed to Afghanistan with their units. In addition, Priest David Alexander, LT, CHC, of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, will be deployed to Afghanistan for the remainder of the lenten and Paschal seasons as he provides religious coverage to US Marines. “During this holy season of Great Lent and Pascha, we ask for your continued prayers for our Orthodox military chaplains and our Orthodox faithful and their families as they serve with our Armed Forces,” said His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Ecclesiastical Endorser of the OCA military and VA chaplains. Archpriest Theodore Boback, Director of the OCA Military Chaplains , and Archpriest Joseph Gallick, Deputy Director, request that the names and units/locations of Orthodox Christian faithful serving in the US Armed Forces or department and defense civilians in Afghanistan be sent to chaplains@oca.org . Submitted names will be forwarded to the chaplains serving in the area of operations. Source: OCA.org Tweet Donate Share Code for blog OCA Chaplains deployed to Middle East admin April 4, 2013 Two priests of the Orthodox Church in America recently were deployed to Afghanistan to provide ministry to members of the US Armed Forces. Priest Paul Rivers, US Army, Chaplain (CPT), in the active duty component in Germany, and Priest George Hill, US Army, Chaplain (MAJ), in the ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Metropolitan Tikhon opens Holy Synod Spring Session Source: OCA Natalya Mihailova 31 March 2016 His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, opened the Spring Session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America with the celebration of a Service of Prayer in the Chancery’s Saint Sergius of Radonezh Chapel here on Tuesday morning, March 29, 2016. Metropolitan Tikhon leads members of the Holy Synod in prayer at the opening of their Spring 2016 Session. Photo: http://oca.org/ Metropolitan Tikhon welcomed the members of the Holy Synod prior to delivering his address. Reports from the [SMPAC], the Board of Theological Education , and the Pension Board also will be offered during plenary sessions, as will reports by the OCA Chancellor, Archpriest John Jillions; Secretary, Archpriest Eric G. Tosi; Treasurer, Melanie Ringa; the Director of External Affairs, Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky; and others. The Spring Session will conclude on Friday, April 1. A photo gallery can be viewed on the OCA web site and Facebook page . Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Metropolitan Tikhon opens Holy Synod Spring Session Natalya Mihailova Metropolitan Tikhon welcomed the members of the Holy Synod prior to delivering his address. Reports from the [SMPAC], the Board of Theological Education, and the Pension Board also will be offered during plenary sessions, as will reports by the OCA Chancellor, Archpriest John Jillions; Secretary, ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation OCA Youth Department launches “Saints You Missed in Sunday School” Source: OCA Natalya Mihailova 21 November 2015 Photo: http://oca.org/ The Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry of the Orthodox Church in America has launched a new digital project titled “ Saints You Missed in Sunday School ”. This project will highlight the lives of some of the lesser known saints found on the OCA’s daily “ Lives of the Saints .” “The lives of our saints are an incredible resource for all of us, demonstrating the continuous preaching of the Gospel throughout history and encouraging us towards missionary work, deeper prayer, and acts of mercy by their example,” said Andrew Boyd, OCA Youth Director. “With the launching of ‘Saints You Missed in Sunday School,’ we hope to present these saints in a way that’s easier to share on social media and through other digital means, making them more accessible to youth and young adults.” Tweet Donate Share Code for blog OCA Youth Department launches “Saints You Missed in Sunday School” Natalya Mihailova The Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry of the Orthodox Church in America has launched a new digital project titled “Saints You Missed in Sunday School”. This project will highlight the lives of some of the lesser known saints found on the OCA’s daily “Lives of the ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. |
| It is also important for the OCA to engage in periodic face-to-face discussions, which are far better in strengthening ties than mere phone calls, e-mails, and casual encounters at other gatherings. OCA.ORG: What are your general impressions of the Czech-Slovak Church? FR. E: It was a bit of whirlwind. We, of course, had an opportunity to spend a lot of time with Metropolitan Krystof. We also meet Archbishop Juraj from southern Slovakia and Bishop Joakim, Vicar in Moravia. In Prague, we met the Ukrainian ambassador to the Czech Republic, while were welcomed by the Mayor of Brno, the Czech Republic’s second largest city. We were struck by the youthfulness of the Church’s hierarchs, Chancellor, Secretary, and numerous clergy. The Czech-Slovak Church is clearly a “young Church.” We were equally impressed with the three monasteries we visited, which offered a glimpse into the incredible life that they are developing. Many of the monastics come from various places in Czech and Slovakia as well as other central and eastern European countries. There is definitely a growing monastic movement, not unlike that found in North America. Finances, of course, are a difficulty, but the monasteries offer a wonderful witness to the faith. We were surprised by the similarities between the Czech-Slovak Church and the OCA, as I mentioned earlier. Just as the OCA went through a transitional period decades ago which resulted in the widespread use of the English language in worship, they are striving to introduce the use of Czech and Slovak, in addition to Church Slavonic. A revival of traditional iconography mirrors that found in North America. And they too are seeking to find their voice in an extremely secular country. [It is said that the Czech Republic is one of the world’s five most secular countries.] Involvement of youth in Church life is a priority as well. But we saw that Metropolitan Krystof is a dynamic and beloved leader who is working through these, and related, issues. It was also interesting to note that the Czech-Slovak Church also embraces a substantial number of converts, not unlike the OCA and other North American Orthodox jurisdictions. Curiously, this movement began much earlier than in North America, in the aftermath of World War I. There were villages throughout Bohemia and Moravia that saw a rise in Orthodox population through the conversion of local people. One village, we were told, had three churches – Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox. Amazingly, all three were established by the same man, who converted eventually to Orthodox Christianity. |
| OCA services were initially held in English in the bell tower Church of St. Symeon the Stylite at St. Daniel " s Monastery until a suitable church could used by the OCA in Russia. The lot fell on St. Catherine " s Church in-the-Fields because of its central location and size. On St. Catherine " s Day 1994 the first prayer service in the church in more than sixty years was conducted jointly by the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the primate of the Orthodox Church in America His Beatitude Theodosius, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada. Fr. Daniel Hubiak was appointed rector of the recently returned church. Among the worshippers at this joyous occasion was Mikhail Vladimirovich Przhevalsky, grandson of the famous Russian explorer. Mr. Przhevalsky, now deceased, shared with the younger generation of new parishioners his memories of being an altar boy at St. Catherine " s before its closure by the communists. His most vivid recollections are of the visits to the parish by Patriarch Tikhon, who had earlier spent ten years of his episcopal career as head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA. It was St. Tikhon who gave his blessing to the first translations of the liturgical services from Church Slavonic into English and it was St. Tikhon who first considered the possibility of an autocephalous American Church. And now it was the turn of a living eyewitness to describe how this saintly bishop preached the word of God in a church that would come to represent the interests of Orthodox Americans in Moscow some seventy years later. The OCA " s mission is to minister to English-speaking Orthodox Christians in Moscow. Among the regular parishioners there have been Americans, English, Australians, Dutch and Belgians, as well as Orthodox Christians from the conventionally more traditional Orthodox countries such as Greece, Serbia and Romania. The growing community is, of course, made up overwhelmingly of Russians of all ages and backgrounds. The OCA representation church in Moscow provides for them a unique window upon world-wide Orthodox, a means of coming to know the truth of the Orthodox adage that it is the faith, not nationality, that brings people together. St. Catherine " s OCA Church has become a byword in Moscow for the unity and the universality of the Holy Orthodox faith. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Metropolitan Tikhon hosts Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at OCA Chancery Source: OCA Pravmir.com team 25 October 2019 On October 24, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon welcomed His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America for a working meeting. His Beatitude received Metropolitan Hilarion in the Chancery’s Saint Sergius of Radonezh Chapel, together with Igumen Nicodemus Balyasnikov and Priest Mark Rashkov, clergy of Saint Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York City. Metropolitan Hilarion conveyed greetings of His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, and presented His Beatitude with a gift of an enkolpion. During their meeting His Beatitude and Metropolitan Hilarion discussed a wide range of topics, including the plans for the 25th anniversary celebration of Saint Catherine Church in Moscow as the Orthodox Church in America’s representation church to the Moscow Patriarchate, and the celebration of the 50th anniversary in 2020 marking the glorification of Saint Herman of Alaska, and the granting of autocephaly. His Beatitude was joined in the meetings by Archpriest Alexander Rentel, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, and Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Affairs. At the conclusion of the morning meeting His Beatitude and Archpriest Alexander Rentel met privately with Metropolitan Hilarion to discuss the current situation of world Orthodoxy. Photo credit: OCA Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Metropolitan Tikhon hosts Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at OCA Chancery Pravmir.com team On October 24, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon welcomed His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America for a working meeting. His Beatitude received ... |
| “From Ocean to Ocean” icon pilgrimage across US, Mexico emphasizes Sanctity of Life Syosset, NY, August 19, 2013 Fr. Peter West, Roman Catholic priest and Vice President for Missions of Human Life International, and Metropolitan Tikhon His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, together with Archpriest John Jillions, OCA Chancellor; Archpriest Eric Tosi, OCA Secretary; and Archpriest Leonid Kishkovsky, OCA Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations, met recently with the Rev. Peter J. West, a Roman Catholic priest and Vice President for Missions of Human Life International, who oversees the “From Ocean to Ocean” Pilgrimage to encourage and promote ongoing prayer and awareness of the Sanctity of Life. Metropolitan Tikhon offered his support to the project, noting that OCA parishes interested in arranging a visit of the icon or to participate in related events are encouraged to contact Human Life International at hli@hli.org or 1-800-549-LIFE, where they may make arrangements directly. The “From Ocean to Ocean Campaign in Defense of Life” aims at encouraging the faithful to offer prayers to the Mother of God for the restoration of a Culture of Life. It also serves as a public symbol of support by both Catholic and Orthodox Christians for the cause of human life. The international site for the campaign http://www.fromoceantoocean.org/ is available in nine languages, including Russian. The North American site, which has a promotional video and a regularly updated schedule, is at http://www.hli.org/oceantoocean . The program was initiated by an Orthodox Christian pro-life demographer from Moscow (See http://demographia.ru/ ), Dr. Igor Beloborodov, and the Polish affiliate of Human Life International, which is led by Ewa Kowalewska. Having organized numerous pro-life rallies in Moscow and in other Russian venues, Dr. Beloborodov and Mrs. Kowalewska decided to begin the peregrination in Vladivostok, Russia and proceed to Fatima, Portugal, with a copy of the Czestochowa Icon of the Mother of God, which for centuries has been revered by Orthodox Christians and Catholics alike. The pro-life leaders then collaborated n forming a multi-national organizing committee which met in Czestochowa, Poland. The project has exceeded everyone’s expectations—at the present time, the icon has completed its trip from Vladivostok to Portugal, traveling 65,000 kilometers through 24 countries. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation 18th All-American Council formally opens Monday, July 20 Source: OCA Natalya Mihailova 20 July 2015 Hierarchs, clergy and faithful from across the US, Canada and Mexico began arriving in Atlanta over the weekend of July 18-19, 2015 for the 18th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America. They joined hundreds of participants in the Fellowship of Orthodox Christians of America’s 89th national convention, which was already underway. The convention is the first to be held in conjunction with an AAC. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon arrived on Saturday, July 18, at the Atlanta Hilton. where he was given a warm welcome by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops, AAC and FOCA convention participants, members of the AAC local planning committee and faithful representing area parishes. On Saturday evening, at the invitation of His Eminence, Metropolitan Alexios of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta, Metropolitan Tikhon, the Holy Synod, and many faithful attended a pan-Orthodox Vesper Service at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral. [See photo gallery of Metropolitan Tikhon’s arrival and the Vesper Service on the OCA web site and Facebook page .] Sunday morning opened with the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Atlanta Hilton, concelebrated by Metropolitan Tikhon and members of the Holy Synod. Faithful from parishes throughout the area joined AAC and FOCA participants for the Liturgy and added their voices to the mass choir, which sang under the direction of Prof. David Drillock. [See photo gallery of the Divine Liturgy on the OCA web site and Facebook page .] AAC delegate and observer registration will continue on Sunday and Monday. Prior to the AAC’s official opening on Monday evening, July 20, several OCA dioceses will hold their annual assemblies at the AAC site. The AAC will officially open with the celebration of a Service of Prayer at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, after which Metropolitan Tikhon will call the Council to order. Highlights of the plenary session include. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Holy Synod of Bishops concludes spring session, the USA admin 16 March 2013 March 15, 2013 The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America held its spring session at the Chancery here Tuesday through Thursday, March 12-14, 2013. In addition to His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, who chaired the sessions, other members of the Holy Synod in attendance were His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel; His Eminence, Archbishop Nikon; His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin; His Eminence, Archbishop Alejo; His Grace, Bishop Melchisedek; His Grace, Bishop Michael; His Grace, Bishop Alexander; His Grace, Bishop Mark; and His Grace, Bishop Irenee. “It has been a little over a month since my enthronement in Washington, DC on January 27, and this report will serve as my monthly review for that time period,” said Metropolitan Tikhon in his opening address. “It is still my hope to provide my brother bishops with regular updates on the most crucial matters affecting the Orthodox Church in America in order to increase our level of communication and reduce the amount of time needed to review matters when we meet. In my first address to the Church, I stated that I had ‘no agenda other than that given to the Holy Apostles, no vision other than that set forth in the Holy Gospels, in the writings of the Fathers and in the decisions of the holy and sacred councils.’ I am nevertheless conscious of the high expectations that are placed on the office of the Primate and that these expectations fall to every one of us on the Holy Synod.” Highlights of the session, according to Archpriest Eric G. Tosi, OCA Secretary, include the following. A photo gallery may be accessed on the OCA web site and OCA Facebook page . Source: OCA.org Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Holy Synod of Bishops concludes spring session, the USA |
| Archive Primates of Russian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Church in America celebrate Liturgy in Moscow Church of St. Catherine In-the-Fields 7 December 2019 year 17:10 On 7 th December 2019, commemoration day of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine In-the-Fields – Moscow Representation of the Orthodox Church in America. This year marks the 25 th anniversary of establishment of the Representation. Concelebrating with the Primates were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Metropolitan Dionisy of Voskresensk, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Ioasaf of Kirovograd and Novomirgorod; Bishop Foma of Pavlovsky Posad, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administrative Secretariat; Bishop Kliment of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov; Protopresbyter Vladimir Divakov, Patriarchal secretary for Moscow; Archpriest Nikolai Krechetov, head of the Moskvoretskoye deanery in Moscow; Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR vice-chairman; as well as members of the American delegation: Archbishop David of Sitka and Alaska; Archimandrite Andrei (Hoarte), bishop-elect of Cleveland, auxiliary to the archbishop of the OCA Romanian Episcopate; Archpriest Alexander Rentel, chancellor of the OCA; Archpriest Daniel Andrejuk, rector of the OCA Representation in Moscow; Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak, secretary to the OCA Primate; and clerics of the OCA Representation. Among the concelebrants were also hierarchs and clergy of the Local Orthodox Churches: Bishop Antonije of Moravica, representative of the Patriarch of Serbia to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Archimandrite Feoktist (Dimitrov), representative of the Patriarch of Bulgaria to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Archimandrite Seraphim (Shemyatovsky), representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; and Archpriest Kakhaber Gogotishvili, cleric of the Georgian Orthodox Church. |
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