Photos - December 2019 Visit to Cuba

2019Cuba41
2019Cuba41
Detail
2019Cuba42
2019Cuba42
Detail
2019Cuba43
2019Cuba43
Detail
2019Cuba44
2019Cuba44
Detail
2019Cuba45
2019Cuba45
Detail
2019Cuba46
2019Cuba46
Detail
2019Cuba47
2019Cuba47
Detail
2019Cuba48
2019Cuba48
Detail
2019Cuba49
2019Cuba49
Detail
2019Cuba50
2019Cuba50
Detail
2019Cuba51
2019Cuba51
Detail
2019Cuba52
2019Cuba52
Detail
2019Cuba53
2019Cuba53
Detail
2019Cuba54
2019Cuba54
Detail
2019Cuba55
2019Cuba55
Detail
2019Cuba56
2019Cuba56
Detail
2019Cuba57
2019Cuba57
Detail
2019Cuba58
2019Cuba58
Detail
2019Cuba59
2019Cuba59
Detail
2019Cuba60
2019Cuba60
Detail
 
 
Powered by Phoca Gallery
Orthodox Awareness

Hero-Worshipping: the Sickness of our Holy Struggle

“Trust ye not in princes, in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.”
(Psalm 145:3)

We mustn’t have absolute trust in human beings for our salvation, no matter what dignity they have. Human beings are changeable. Today they are saints, tomorrow—deniers. Today—sinners, tomorrow—righteous. We must have absolute trust in God, and in Him we must base our hopes of salvation. “Blessed is he of whom the God of Jacob is his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psalm 145:5). Read more...

Missions

Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Mission, Tucson, Arizona

Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church is a beautiful mission parish near downtown Tucson, a city in southern Arizona. It was started in 1997 by Father John Bockman, who was a missionary Priest formerly serving missions in Tennessee and Massachusetts since 1990. Father John served the faithful in Tucson and the surrounding area in his home Chapel until his repose in November of 2000. His wife, Presbytera Valerie, continued to make her home Chapel available for the mission, with clergy from Saint Nectarios Orthodox Church in Seattle and His Eminence, Metropolitan Moses of Toronto (then of Portland), visiting to provide the Divine Services.

Read more...
Youth

2025 Youth Conference

Please join us for the 2025 youth conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada! To learn more, visit the conference website.

Ask A Priest

Morning and Evening Prayers

Q. Are the prayers in the blue prayer book [A Prayerbook for Orthodox Christians by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery —ed.] compulsory for everyone? I mean their morning prayers and the service of Small Compline. My confessor gave me a special rule but wasn’t clear about whether this replaced the book prayers or was in addition to them. Read more...