Parish articles archive

19 Dec 2016

From The Way of the Ascetics
By Tito Colliander

FASTING, neither above nor below your ability, will help you in your vigil. One should not ponder divine matters on a full stomach, say the ascetics. For the well-fed, even the most...

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ORTHODOX DIVINE SERVICES

09 Dec 2016

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

Orthodox Divine Services are an enormous treasure, one which we must carefully keep. Whether in the Liturgy, Vespers, Matins, the Hours, Midnight Office or Compline, from the very opening exclamation we immerse...

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Passing from the Old Testament into the New: On the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple

02 Dec 2016

Bishop Basil Rodzianko

The Feast of the Entrance! The Entrance is a special day for Russia.

The Monastery of the Entrance and the Optina Elders went down in history like none other in the collective service of...

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CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NATIVITY FAST

22 Nov 2016

The Nativity Fast serves to bless the conclusion of the year with a mystical renewal of spiritual unity with God and preparation for our celebration of the Nativity of Christ.

St. Leo the Great wrote, “The custom of abstinence is fixed for...

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On the Death of Joseph (Jose) Munoz-Cortes

26 Oct 2016

October 31st marks exactly 19 years since the martyric death of Jose Munoz-Cortes, to whom God entrusted guardianship for 15 years of the myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which later became known as the "Montreal" Icon. Below is the first obituary...

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FEAST OF THE PROTECTION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD

07 Oct 2016

This is one of the most beloved feasts of the Russian people, one of the most pleasing. When I have occasion to speak about how the All-Pure Virgin covered the worshippers in the Blachernae Church with her omophorion, I always point out that there were, of course, different...

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THE ELEVATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

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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