Parish articles archive

25 Sep 2016

“By this sign shall ye conquer!”

These holy words spoken from Heaven came down on the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century. Responding to this message the Emperor commanded that the shields of his soldiers be emblazoned with...

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Everything pleasing to God is gained through suffering

18 Sep 2016

ON THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE THEOTOKOS

God chose someone to be the person through whom He would become Man. Had that one not existed, our salvation would not have been accomplished.

In the service to the...

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AS WE CELEBRATE THE 67TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARISH

04 Sep 2016

This month our parish will mark the 67th anniversary of its founding. On September 11, 1949, the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and Forerunner of Christ, the Holy Hierarch St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first...

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THE DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD

26 Aug 2016

On August 28 (August 15, Old Style), the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. The importance of this Feast in the conscientiousness of the Orthodox Church is underscored by the fact that it is presided by a two-week Fast....

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“It is Good For Us To Be Here”: On the Lord’s Transfiguration

17 Aug 2016

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

During the earthly life of the Lord Jesus Christ, there were very few joyful, luminous moments. God was Incarnate and came into this world above all in order to plunge into our darkness and to share our sorrow...

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The Procession (Carrying-forth) of the Venerable Wood of the Life-Creating Cross of the Lord

12 Aug 2016

Commemorated on August 1/ 14

In the Greek Chasoslov (Orologion) of 1897 is explained thus the derivation of this feast: "By reason of the sicknesses, often everywhere occurring in August, from of old customarily it was done at Constantinople to...

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SAINT VLADIMIR, PRINCE OF RUSSIA, EQUAL TO THE APOSTLES

23 Jul 2016

By St. Nikolaj Velimirovich

Prince Vladimir was the first to embrace and choose the Heavenly Kingdom together with the Russian people. I say, “with the people” because there were separate individuals before his time who were joining...

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WHAT DISTINGUISHES COMPASSION FROM SENTIMENTALITY

19 Jul 2016

Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin)

Compassion is founded on love for someone: love renders the other party as it were, another “self,” one with you. Sentimentality is grounded in self-love: it makes one sad not as the result of the suffering...

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IN MEMORY OF THE ROYAL MARTYRS BY ST. JOHN OF SHANGHAI AND SAN FRANCISCO

16 Jul 2016

St. John explains the great sacrifices of the Tsar and the Royal family for Russia, and the great sin incurred by the Russian people for the murder of their God-annointed sovereign.
Sermon given by St. John during the memorial service...

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BE MINDFUL OF DEATH

13 Jul 2016

Die every day, and you will live forever.
St. Antony the Great

Being mindful of death is a virtue that ordinary people practice rarely, but it is something of which the Fathers speak a great deal in the Philokalia. It is one...

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