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Statement by Metropolitan JOSEPH on the Recent Announcement by President...
Englewood, NJ/The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North AmericaStatement by His Eminence, Archbishop Metropolitan JOSEPH, of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church of North America on...
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2018 Winter Camp Registrations are Happening Now!
WAMP 2018! Online registration for DOWAMA SOYO Winter Camp (a.k.a. WAMP) at Camp Saint Raphael, January 12–15, 2018, is open at www.wamp2018.eventbee.com. Questions? Contact DOWAMA Youth Director Erin...
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Antiochian Village Summer Camp Registration Opens Monday, December 11
The Antiochian Village Summer Camp Program serves young people ages 9–17 who come to attend one of four two-week sessions. A primary goal of the Village camp program is to present to young people a...
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Apply to CrossRoad 2018! Summer Program for High School Juniors and Seniors
Calling all Antiochian Youth! Are you an Orthodox Christian high school junior or senior interested in exploring your faith? Apply to the dynamic, life-changing program that is CrossRoad! The...
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Youth Worker Conference to Feature the Theme of Gratitude
The Very Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Purpura, chairman of SOYO and the Department of Youth, encourages all parish and Archdiocese-wide youth leaders to attend the pan-Orthodox Youth Worker Conference in early...
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Dec. 15 + St. Eleftherios, Patron Saint of Diocese of Wichita
The Holy Hieromartyr EleftheriosDecember 15th is also the anniversary of the formal establishment of the Diocese of Wichita in 2004. Read His Grace Bishop Basil's address on the occasion (PDF).The...
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Antiochian Orthodox Union of Canada Holds Annual Gala Event
Bishop Alexander with Antiochian Orthodox Union of Canada membersThe Antiochian Orthodox Union of Canada held its annual gala event on November 4, 2017, at the Chateau Royal Reception Hall in Laval,...
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St. Ignatius of Antioch + December 20
Like a living monument and an animate image, thy yearly feast is come, O God-bearing Ignatius, proclaiming thy mystic teachings and thy heroic exploits, thy resistance for the Faith even unto blood,...
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Memory Eternal! + John George Burbules, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
John George Burbules, COL USA (Ret.), 84, of Sellersburg, Indiana, fell asleep in the Lord on Thursday morning, December 14, 2017 after a brief illness. He had a Christian ending to his life –...
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"Living Orthodoxy" Podcast Features Interview with Bishop Thomas
December 19, 2017As a part of the "Faith Stories" series in the Living Orthodoxy podcast, His Grace Bishop Thomas (Joseph) of the Diocese of Oakland, Charleston and the Mid-Atlantic was interviewed in...
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Bishop Anthony's Pastoral Letter for Nativity, 2017
Nativity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2017Dear beloved Clergy and Faithful of our Midwest Diocese,Christ is Born! Glorify Him!ُ المسیح ُ وِلد!َ فمجدوه!Home, family, friends, decorations that...
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Winter 2017-2018 Issue of DIAKONIA Available Online
The Winter 2017–2018 issue of DIAKONIA, the newsletter of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Women of North America, is now available online. This issue features the Diocese of New York, and the Diocese...
View ArticleByzantine Hymn of the Nativity
Today is born of the Virgin Him Who holdeth all creation in the hollow of His hand.He Whose essence is untouchable is wrapped in swaddling clothes as a babe.The God Who from of old established the...
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The Simplicity of Christmas
By Fr. George H. ShalhoubIt is truly a wonderful time of the year. As we approach the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the question on many minds, especially children is: what kind of gift am I...
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View the 2018 Fasting Calendar.AttachmentSizeFasting Calendar for 2018 (PDF)100.31 KB
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Nativity Greeting From His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH
Nativity 2017Today doth Bethlehem receive Him Who sitteth with the Father forever. Today the angels glorify, as worthy of God, the babe that is born, shouting: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth...
View ArticleMemory Eternal! + Sylvia Jean Joseph, Mother of His Grace Bishop THOMAS
Sylvia Jean Joseph, mother of His Grace Bishop THOMAS, reposed in the Lord on Christmas Eve, 2017. She was 93 years old. Writes His Grace, "As you know, she had been suffering for a good period of...
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Register Now! 2018 Winter Sacred Music Institute Is February 1-4 in Houston
The Department of Sacred Music is thrilled to announce the 2018 Winter Sacred Music Institute, being held from February 1-4, 2018, and hosted once again by the ever generous and gracious St....
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St. Basil the Great & The Circumcision of the Lord + January 1
In all the earth that received thy sayings, thy melody did resound, O righteous father, through which thou didst go about and proclaim, as worthy of God, the nature of creatures, cultivating the...
View ArticleLivestream! Boston Byzantine Choir to Present "The Twelve Days of Christmas"...
On January 6, 2018, the Boston Byzantine Choir under the direction of Charles R. Marge will present "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The concert will be held at St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Cambridge,...
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