On the weekend of September 7-8 (20-21), 2008, our new missionary community dedicated to the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos in Greenville, North Carolina, celebrated its first cycle of services.
On Saturday evening, Fr Anastasios Hudson from St Mark the Evangelist Mission in Raleigh traveled to Greenville and celebrated Vespers. He gave a short talk afterward about the feast day.
On Sunday, September 8/21, Fr Anastasios, his presbytera, and a parishoner traveled to Greenville, NC to celebrate Matins and the Divine Liturgy. After the services, a festal potluck was enjoyed by the community.
Refutation of an “Encyclical Sermon” by a Hierarch of the New Calendar Orthodox Church of Greece and a Wily Denigrator of Anti-Ecumenists and “Old Calendarists” Who Have Walled Themselves Off From His Church
by His Grace, Bishop Clement of Gardikion, Secretary of the Holy Synod
In Greek
In English
St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox Church began as a mission parish in the year 2000, in a home chapel in Palm Coast, FL – a small town on Florida’s northeast coast located between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. After two years, it became necessary to have services in area community centers, rented for Sundays and other Holy Days. Read more...
2025 Youth Conference
Please join us for the 2025 youth conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada! To learn more, visit the conference website.
Q. There seems to be a lot of variation in how people observe fasting, but my confessor told me to fast from oil on Wednesday and Friday. Oil is a pretty vague category, though, and I was wondering if I could get a more explicit description of what kinds of food and drink are excluded on strict fast days. Read more...