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His Eminence, Metropolitan Joseph Convenes Second Gathering of Archdiocesan...
His Eminence leads the meeting of department and organization heads.Following on the success of last year's first-ever exclusive gathering, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph again convened the leaders...
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2017 Pascha Letter From Bishop Basil
Bas-relief above the Tomb of ChristPascha 2017Beloved and Christ-loving Clergy, Monastics and Laity of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America:I embrace and greet you with a holy kiss in the Name of the...
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Reflections for This Sacred Week
Today the Holy Passion shines forth upon the world with the light of salvation; for Christ in His love hastens to His sufferings. He who holds all things in the hollow of His hand consents to be hung...
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Diocese of Charleston Bible Study + April 12, 2017
Exodus 2:11-22 Job 2:1-10 Matthew 26:6-16Exodus 2:11-22 (NKJV)Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an...
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Holy Tuesday: The Hymn of St. Kassiane
Listen to the Hymn chanted by the St. Romanos Choir of BeirutAt Bridegroom Orthros on Great and Holy Tuesday, the Church sings the following hymn by St. Kassiane:O Lord, the woman who had fallen into...
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Bishop Thomas to Offer Commencement Address, Receive Honorary Doctorate at...
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the Board of Trustees of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, and St. Tikhon's Rector His Eminence Archbishop Michael,...
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Spring 2017 Issue of DIAKONIA Available Online
The Spring 2017 issue of DIAKONIA is now available online. This issue highlights the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America. The issue contains:A greeting from His Grace Bishop BasilA message from...
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Great and Holy Friday
On Great and Holy Friday, the Orthodox Church commemorates the sufferings of Christ: the mockery, the crown of thorns, the scourging, the nails, the thirst, the vinegar and gall, the cry of desolation,...
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Great and Holy Saturday
Today hell groans and cries aloud: "My power has been destroyed. I accepted a mortal man as one of the dead; yet I cannot keep Him prisoner, and with Him I shall lose all those over whom I ruled. I...
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Memory Eternal! + Chafica Chamoun-Cohlmia
Mrs. Cohlmia with her sons Dr. Samir and George.Memory Eternal! + Chafica Chamoun-Cohlmia, 82, mother of Dr. Samir Nouhad Cohlmia, Diocesan Protopsaltis for the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America,...
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The Pascha Homily of St. John Chrysostom
If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast.If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.If any have labored long in...
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Send Us Your Photos From This Holy Season!
V. Rev. Fr. Gregory Lazarus Murphy, St. Michael Church, Geneva, NY (photo: Matthew Owen)Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death,And upon those in the tombs bestowing life!Christ is...
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Metropolitan Joseph's Paschal Greeting, 2017
PASCHA 2017All creatures have been filled with light, the heaven and the earth, and all that is below the earth. Let all creation, therefore, celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, in which it is...
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The Dept. of Homeschooling Announces 2017 St. Emmelia Orthodox Homeschooling...
With us everything should be secondary compared to our concern with children, and their upbringing in the instruction and teaching of the Lord. - St. John ChrysostomDid you know that homeschooling is...
View ArticleAn Orthodox Spiritual Response to Clergy Burnout
By Bishop Thomas and Peter SchweitzerIn my last article, I wrote about the faithful participation in the life of Christ and what that entails on a practical level. In this present paper, I hope with...
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Diocese of Charleston Bible Study + April 19, 2017
Christ is risen!Indeed He is Risen!Acts 2:22-36 John 1:35-51Acts 2:22-36 (NKJV)“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which...
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Mother of God of the "Life-Giving Spring"
Mother of God of the Life-Giving Spring by Vasiliki Oldziey of St. Elias Church, Austin, TXThe Feast of the Life-giving Spring which is kept on the Friday of Bright Week has its origins in the 5th...
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Feast of the Holy Great-Martyr George
Blessed Feast Day to our many St. George parishes!As the deliverer of captives and the protector of the poor, as the physician of the feeble and combatant of kings, holy champion and great martyr...
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Memory Eternal! + Nabiha (Iqal) Rayan
Father Nicholas Dahdal writes:Memory Eternal! Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church of Cicero, IL, offers her sincerest condolences to the Rayan Family on the loss of the handmaid of God Nabiha...
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Gleanings from a Book: "The Suitcase" by Jane G. Meyer
Gleanings from a Book: The Suitcase by Jane G. MeyerOrthodox Christian author Jane G. Meyer has written a new picture book called The Suitcase: a Story about Giving. The book was illustrated by Chiara...
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