Good News – September 2020

For obvious reasons, two of the most popular videos on our Church’s YouTube channel are, “It is Safe to Receive Holy Communion” and “How is Holy Communion prepared”, each of which have over 14,000 views. In these videos, I discuss the science and the faith of receiving Holy Communion. In...

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Ecumenical Patriarch – Latest News

“It is a shared conviction that, in our time, the natural environment is threatened like never before in the history of humankind. The magnitude of this threat becomes manifest in the fact that what is at stake is not anymore the quality, but the preservation of life on our planet....

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Vespers of the Dormition Lamentations

Here are the rubrics from the Antiochian Service Book It is traditional that the Lamentations at the Bier of the Mother of God be chanted at Great Vespers on the eve of the Feast. Immediately following the Hymn of Righteous Simeon the clergy come to stand before the Bier (in...

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Good News – August 2020

This month in light of the events occurring in our country calling for justice, immediate change, and no less than a tearing down of established institutions, I wanted to explore two quotes, one from the Old Testament and the other from one of Orthodoxy’s prolific saints in an effort to...

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Addiction & Hope: How Do You Manage the Unmanageable?

Please join Fr. Michael Marcantoni and Dr. Emily Adamopoulos for a special edition of OCN’s Real Deal. They will be tackling the daunting question of how to understand and address the topic of addictions, their effect on communities and families and what we can do about it. Both Fr. Michael...

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His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros’ Statement on George Floyd

NEW YORK – ON FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020, IN RESPONSE TO THE GROWING TENSIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: “THE UNJUST SLAYING OF GEORGE FLOYD CANNOT BE WHERE AMERICA STANDS. VIOLENCE ONLY BREEDS VIOLENCE, BUT WHEN SUCH VIOLENCE IS PERPETRATED BY...

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