Fr Frank Marangos

How to Identify Your Life’s Core Desire

By Webmaster on April 8, 2020 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, Uncategorized

Source: Oinos Educational Consulting CORONA-QUEST: A QUESTION FOR THE 21st CENTURY CASTAWAY By Frank Marangos, D.Min., Ed.D., FCEP “In the 21st century, knowing all the answers won’t distinguish someone’s intelligence, rather the ability to ask all the right questions will be the mark of true genius.” ~ John E. Kelly, IBM Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be marooned on a remote tropical island? While the image of palm trees gently swaying in a warm ocean breeze might appear romantically quixotic, the globe’s current experience of social distancing has shown that such a respite would swiftly become monotonous,…

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Eparchial Synod issue Guidelines on Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

By Webmaster on March 6, 2020 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America New York, NY – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Most Reverend Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, have issued guidelines to the Clergy and Laity of the Archdiocese to face the outbreak of the Coronavirus, Covid-19, that has spread throughout the world. Recognizing that this outbreak impacts not only on the most vulnerable members of the community, but upon all people, the Archbishop and the Eparchial Synod have issued an Encyclical (www.goarch.org/-/encyclical-covid-19-pandemic) containing guidelines (www.goarch.org/-/directives-covid-19) to the Clergy on how a Parish can best…

OCL Advisory Board Member Pam Collins interacting with His Holiness, Patriarch Irinej.

IRINEJ, Patriarch of Serbia, visits Miami – March 1, 2020

By Webmaster on March 5, 2020 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christian Laity On March 1, 2020, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia (celebrating his 45th anniversary as a bishop, 10th anniversary as primate, and 60th anniversary as a monk), Bishop Irinej of Eastern USA, and Bishop Jovan of Šumadija concelebrated the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and the Slava of St Sava at St Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church, Miami FL. It was a joyful and festive celebration attended by hundreds, mostly Millenials and young families. A luncheon followed the services and included folk dancers, songs, poems and classical music. OCL Executive Director George Matsoukas attended the celebration joined by Advisory…

A Meditation by Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim) as We Begin Great Lent

By Webmaster on February 29, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: The Uppsala Report: Official Report of the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, July 4-20, 1968 Bishop Ignatius became Patriarch of Antioch in 1979 and served until 2012. Without the Holy Spirit: God is far away, Christ stays in the past, The Gospel is a dead letter, The Church is simply an organization, Authority a matter of domination, Mission a matter of propaganda, Liturgy is no more than an evocation, Christian living a slave morality. But with the Holy Spirit: The cosmos is resurrected and groans with the birth-pangs of the Kingdom, The risen Christ is there,…

Bishop Paul P. Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Conn., and Bishop Bohdan J. Danylo of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, Ohio, arrive in procession with bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches in the United States to concelebrate a Divine Liturgy at the Basilica of St. Clement in Rome Feb. 21, 2020. The bishops were making their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)

U.S. ‘ad limina’ visits conclude with Byzantine liturgy at Rome basilica

By Webmaster on February 22, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Crux Cindy Wooden CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE ROME – The last group of U.S. bishops to make their “ad limina” visits to Rome chose to celebrate the final liturgy of their visit at Rome’s Basilica of St. Clement because of its ties to the Christian East. Under a sparkling 12th-century mosaic depicting the church as a vine growing from Christ’s cross, Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia presided over the Divine Liturgy Feb. 21. Bishops from the other U.S. Ukrainian eparchies concelebrated as did bishops from the Ruthenian, Maronite, Melkite, Syriac, Syro-Malabar, Armenian and Romanian Catholic churches.…

The Dormition Cathedral of Kiev Caves Lavra

THE ANCIENT SPIRITUAL LINK BETWEEN UKRAINE AND SYRIA

By Webmaster on February 10, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christianity Andrei German Introduction by Matfey Shaheen: Would it surprise you to know that Syria, Ukraine, and all Rus’ belong to Western Civilization? If we define Western Civilization as it was classically understood to be: 1.) Greek Philosophy, 2.) Roman Law, and 3.) Christianity, we would see that Russia by that model, is more Western than the contemporary “West”, which from the French revolution onward ideologically rejected Christendom. But where did Rus’ inherit this belonging to Christendom? Kievan Rus’ received Orthodoxy “from the Greeks”, but Syria, at that time was no less Hellenic than Athens. Antioch was a capital of Christian, Greco-Roman Civilization—the homeland…

2020 New Year’s Greetings from OCL: “The same yesterday, today and tomorrow”

By Webmaster on January 9, 2020 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, OCL News, Orthodox Christian Laity, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christian Laity Click on the image below to view the PDF.

The Holy Synod Proclaims 2020 as a Year of Anniversaries for the Orthodox Church in America

By Webmaster on January 1, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Church in America SYOSSET, NY [OCA] A message from Archpriest Alexander Rentel, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America: On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the feast of Saint John Chrysostom. At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy His Eminence Archbishop Michael of New York and New Jersey, Secretary of the Holy Synod, read a proclamation of the Holy Synod announcing the anniversary celebrations for the Canonization of Saint Herman of Alaska, and the reception of the Tomos of Autocephaly. In its proclamation, the Holy Synod…

It is time for Orthodox primates and hierarchs to stand up to Moscow and ensure Church unity

By Webmaster on December 11, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, Uncategorized

Source: The Orthodox World By Evagelos Sotiropoulos “Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do” (Matthew 23:3). The reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the recent decisions by the Ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria, as well as the Church of Greece, to formally recognize the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (OCU) and its primate, Metropolitan Epiphanios of Kyiv and all Ukraine, reminds me of the Bible passage above. Last November, in my article “Caring for the Church of Ukraine: Constantinople’s Calmness Carries the Day” published in Providence…

Browsing: Uncategorized