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Pastoral Letter of Metropolitan Tikhon for the Nativity of our Lord 2023

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Source: Orthodox Church in America To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, my beloved children in the Lord, Christ is born! Glorify him! At the Vigil for today’s feast, we sang with the words of St. Germanus of Constantinople: “Today the Virgin gives birth to the Maker of all. Eden offers a cave and a star discloses Christ, the Sun, to those in darkness” (second sticheron at the aposticha). In a supreme paradox, the created world today offers shelter to the one who contains all things in the palm of his hand. Coming among us…

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Paschal Pastoral Letter of His Eminence Archbishop Nathaniel

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Source: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America PASTORAL LETTER 2023 RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD AND GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST  Christ is risen! Truly, He is risen!  “Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.  He told them, ‘This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things’.”  (Luke 24:45-48) Beloved Spiritual Children in Christ: Reverend Clergy, Venerable Monastics and Devout Faithful of our God-protected Episcopate:…

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RESURRECTION PASTORAL LETTER 2019 – Archbishop Nathaniel

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Resurrection Pastoral Letter 2019 + NATHANIEL By the Mercy of God, Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America To the beloved clergy, monastics and pious faithful of our God-protected Episcopate: Grace, mercy and peace from God, and from us our fatherly love and hierarchal blessing. “Glory be to him who can keep you from falling and bring you safe to his glorious presence, innocent and happy. To God, the only God, who saves us through Jesus Christ, our Lord, be the glory, majesty, authority and power, which he had before time began, now and forever. Amen.”  (Jude 1:…

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Christmas Pastoral Letter of Archbishop Nathaniel

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Source: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America PASTORAL LETTER 2016 The Birth of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ  “And I will make my home among them; and live with them; ‘I will be their God and they shall be my people’.” (2 Cor. 6:16; Lev. 26:11-19) Beloved Spiritual Children in Christ: Reverend Clergy, Venerable Monastics and Devout Faithful of our God-protected Episcopate: Dearly Beloved, Once again, after a long year, we are today celebrat­ing the birth of the Sun of Righteousness, Jesus Christ, the Light of the world! The burden of the weeks and months, the cares and…

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Archbishop Nathaniel’s Nativity Pastoral Letter 2013

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Source: The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America PASTORAL LETTER 2013 NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST Dearly Beloved Reverend Clergy, Venerable Monastics and Devout Faithful of our God-protected Episcopate: Christ is born! Let us glorify Him! By God’s grace, we have come to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks be to him! Christmas is an invitation to us to come to the manger wherein rests the infant Messiah and to make ourselves to be like little children. It is a time of the year when the words of the Cherubic Hymn that we…

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