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Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Romania

Holy Synod of Romania announces 2026 focus on family pastoral care and commemoration of Holy Women, sets plans for Centennial events

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Source: Basilica.ro Originally published on October 26, 2024 by Aurelian Iftimiu The working session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church was conducted on Friday, October 25, 2024, in the Aula Magna “Patriarch Teoctist” of the Patriarchal Palace, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. Following the elections for the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Ireland and Iceland, the Holy Synod adopted several resolutions concerning pastoral care for Romanians in the country and abroad, including the following: The year 2026 was declared the “Solemn Year of Pastoral Care for the…

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Deacon Hripsime Saunyan in Istanbul in 1998. Credit: R. R. Ervine

The Historical Roots of the Armenian Apostolic Deaconess

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Source: Public Orthodoxy Where Do We Go from Here? by Dr. Sarita Melkon Maldjian, Professor at Seton Hall University Following the two-year long process of the Synod of Synodality led by Pope Francis, we must ask why it is mainly Western Catholic women advocating for the right to be ordained. The Orthodox, Apostolic, and Eastern Catholic churches need to be fully included in this conversation. As an American member of the Armenian Apostolic Church, I have never seen a diasporan Armenian church thrive without its hard working, devoutly faithful women members. Looking at the history of deaconesses in the Armenian Apostolic Church is…

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PEACE OF MIND: Training in Mental Health First Aid and Orthodox Bridging

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Source: Assembly of Orthodox Canonical Bishops of the USA WHAT IS PEACE OF MIND? Peace of Mind is a composite training program on mental health crisis response that includes a clinically-based course (Mental Health First AidTM, owned by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing) which is augmented by a theologically-based presentation developed by the Assembly of Bishops. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES This in-person event is designed to support and equip Orthodox Christian clergy and ministry leaders in: appropriately identifying, understanding, responding, and referring mental health concerns as they arise in the parish exploring the connection between Orthodox Christian anthropology, pastoral care, and…

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Chapel of Asbury University, Wilmore, Kentucky

THE ASBURY REVIVAL AND LENT: AN ORTHODOX APPRECIATION

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Source: Public Orthodoxy by Paul L. Gavrilyuk On February 8, the students who gathered for a regular worship service at a chapel of Asbury University, a small Christian college in Wilmore, Kentucky, found themselves unable to leave at the service’s end. They continued to pray with their hands extended, making public confessions of repentance and praise, for hours. The nonstop service has gone on in this manner for two weeks, with over 50,000 people from other states and even other countries traveling to Asbury to experience the “outpouring.” When the university authorities had to close the service this Sunday, February 26,…

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Understanding Francis

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Source: Our Sunday Visitor A look at the meaning and motivation behind our frank pope Austen Ivereigh OSV Newsweekly Last month in Rome, a senior Catholic commentator was contacted by a U.S. news channel. Could he come into the studio to explain what Pope Francis meant when he said that couples who choose not to have children are part of a “greedy generation”? They were still absorbing his suggestion that Catholics shouldn’t breed like rabbits, which had offended people with big families; was he now going back on that? Was this a politician’s attempt to appeal to different constituencies? “Is…

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