Moderator: Mark Templet
ETERNAL MEMORY!
On 10 March, Protopriest Alexei Dimitrieff reposed in the Lord at the Hermitage of the Kursk-Root Icon in Mahopac, NY. The funeral of Fr. Alexei will be held in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville on Thursday, 11 March.
On the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the churches of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia will conduct the prayer "On the Conversion of the Wayward," and cathedral churches will perform the Rite of Orthodoxy.
21 March marks the 23rd anniversary of the death of Archbishop Vitaly (Maximenko) of blessed memory. A memorial service will be held in his crypt at the Memorial Church of St. Vladimir, Jackson, NJ.
A Clergy Conference and Pastoral Retreat of the Siberian Diocese is scheduled for Tuesday, 18 March, at Epiphany Cathedral in Ishim.
A new internet site for the Summer Church Music School at Holy Trinity Seminary has been launched: http://sslm.hts.edu
A Pastoral Retreat is scheduled on 19-21 March at Protection Cathedral in Chicago.
At the end of February, Prof. Alexei E. Klimoff read a lecture at Holy Trinity Seminary entitled: "Protopriest George Florovsky and Protopriest Sergei Bulgakov's 'Sophian Discussions'."
Protection Memorial Church of the 1000 Years of the Baptism of Russia in Ottawa will hold a pastoral retreat and conference of the Eastern Canadian Diocese on 1-2 April. The Conference will be headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus and His Grace Bishop Gabriel of Manhattan. A working meeting of the Diocesan Council will be held immediately following.
During the second week of Great Lent, His Eminence, the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, performed liturgy in Protection Church in Rochester. On Monday, 24 March he departed for the Pastoral Conference and Retreat of the Eastern American Diocese at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Howell, NJ.
Protection Memorial Church of the 1000 Years of the Baptism of Russia in Ottawa will hold a pastoral retreat and conference of the Eastern Canadian Diocese on 1-2 April. The Conference will be headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus and His Grace Bishop Gabriel of Manhattan. A working meeting of the Diocesan Council will be held immediately following.
April 2 marks the second anniversary of the death of the renowned icon-painter of the Russian diaspora, Archimandrite Kiprian (Pyzhov).
On 30 March, the 50th anniversary of the clerical service of Protopriest Vladimir de Skalon was marked at Resurrection Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fr. Vladimir was ordained into the deaconate in 1953 by Archbishop Ioasaf of blessed memory.
Professor Phillip Johnson of Berkeley University will read a lecture at the hall of the Cathedral of the Mother of God
Seventy-eight years ago, on the day of the Annunciation of the Most-Holy Mother of God, the "Angel of the Russian Church," Patriarch Tikhon, the New Martyr, reposed in the Lord.
Saturday, 5 April, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesenky) of blessed memory. He was the third First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
The Church of All Saints of North America in Middlebrook, VA, together with the St. Romanos the Melodist Society is holding a Church Music Seminar for English-speaking choir directors and singers. For information, see: http://www.allsaintsofamerica.org/confe ... rence.html
His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus ordained Deacon Paul Ivanov into the priesthood in the cathedral of Holy Trinity Monastery on the day of the Annunciation.
His Grace Bishop Kyrill ordained reader Martin Pearson into the deaconate at the Cathedral of the Mother of God