Memory Eternal! + Archdeacon Russell George Hodge
Memory eternal! Archdeacon Russell George Hodge, 89, of St. George Church in West St. Paul, Minnesota, peacefully feel asleep in Christ last evening at his home in South St. Paul. He is survived by his...
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December 16, 2015 + Teaching on the 8 Means of Temptation and the Struggle...
The following account is of a spiritual instruction offered by an outstanding contemporary hesychast, Elder Cleopa (Ilie) (1912-1998) of Sihastria Monastery in Romania. What follows is an excerpt from...
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Letter From His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph for Choir and Chanter...
"O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!" Psalm 95:1-2Beloved in Christ,Each year in the month of December we remember our choirs and chanters. This...
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Diocese of Charleston Bible Study + December 16, 2015
Hebrews 5:11-6:8Mark 8:30-34Galatians 4:22-31 (NKJV) Of whom, brethren, we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be...
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Sunday before NativityMasters, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, and Sisters, Bless!This Sunday, the Sunday before the Nativity, we read St. Matthew's Genealogy of Christ (Matthew 1:1-25). Below is the...
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Pan-Orthodox Music Symposium Announced for June 2016
Registration now open for Minneapolis eventMinneapolis, MN – The International Society for Orthodox Church Music (www.isocm.com) will host a pan-Orthodox music symposium at St Mary's Orthodox Cathedral...
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His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph Interviewed About Syrian Crisis
During his pastoral visit to Saints Peter & Paul Orthodox Christian Church in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 12–14, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph sat down with Antiochian journalist Peter...
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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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December 23, 2015 + Teaching on the 8 Means of Temptation and the Struggle...
The Holy Fathers say (this is how Fr. Cleopa began to express concisely his spiritual experience to us, inherited from the Holy Fathers and personally experienced by him, as every one of his words...
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December 30, 2015 + Teaching on the 8 Means of Temptation and the Struggle...
The Holy Fathers say (this is how Fr. Cleopa began to express concisely his spiritual experience to us, inherited from the Holy Fathers and personally experienced by him, as every one of his words...
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2015 Nativity Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch...
December 20, 2015By the mercy of GodPatriarch John X, The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East(Read the Arabic version)To my brother pastors of the Antiochian Holy Church, and my...
View ArticleByzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan to be Made Available Online
The music for the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan is now being made available in the Department of Sacred Music's PDF Library. Additions have begun with January (PDF), and will continue to be...
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Metropolitan Joseph's Pastoral Message for the Feast of the Nativity of our...
This is our festival, this is the feast we celebrate today, in which God comes to live with human beings, that we may journey toward God, or return—for to speak thus is more exact—that laying aside the...
View Article2015 Nativity Letter from Bishop Anthony
Nativity of our Lord and Savior Jesus ChristDecember 25, 2015Christ is Born! Glorify Him! ! المسيحُ وُلِد!َ فمجدوهLove swings back and forth between hope and hurt. The Father in heaven had high hopes...
View ArticleChaplain's Corner + What the World Needs Now is Personhood
by Fr. George MorelliA song that was popular from the start of the Vietnam War in the mid 1960's and re-recorded in ensuing years, up to the present time, by over a hundred artists was titled: "What...
View ArticleSpiritual Nuggets + December 27, 2015
Sunday after NativityMasters, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, and Sisters, Bless!On the Sunday after Nativity, we read Matthew 2:13-23 which recounts the Flight into Egypt. Saint Nicholai of Zicha...
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Diocese of Charleston Bible Study + December 23, 2015
Hebrews 10:1-18Mark 10:11-16Hebrews 10:1-18 (NKJV)For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer...
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Nativity Letter from the Department of Sacred Music
Nativity Message from Paul Jabara, Chairman, Department of Sacred MusicDecember 23, 2015Your Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, beloved Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Brothers and Sisters in Christ,Christ Is...
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Christmas Greetings from Metropolitan Saba of Bosra-Hauran
His Eminence Metropolitan Saba of the Archdiocese of Bosra-Hauran in Syria writes:Dearest Brother: I am sending to you to share with your Diocese several photos from the children's Christmas pageant at...
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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