As part of an Australia-wide Diocesan initiative to meet the needs of the youth of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, an invitation is extended to all youth and young adults to attend an informal lecture (in English) to be given by His Grace Archbishop Hilarion at Holy Protection Church, Cabramatta on at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 March 2007.Continue Reading
On February 13-14, the Synodal Youth Department convened under the chairmanship of His Grace Bishop Peter of Cleveland, Administrator of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America. Participating in this meeting was the Rector of St Nicholas Cathedral in Brisbaine, Australia, Protopriest Gabriel Makarov, who delivered a noteworthy lecture at the IV All-Diaspora Council; the Senior Priest of the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign, Protopriest Andrei Sommer; and Priest Serafim Gan, Personal Secretary of His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.Continue Reading
Reverend Fathers, Dear in the Lord Brothers, Sisters and Children:
I send my heartfelt greetings to all of you on the arrival of the salvific period of Great Lent, the time designated for our inner self-examination. The Holy Church summons us towards this, that we purify ourselves with augmented prayers and fasting, that we illumine ourselves with the reading of spiritually-beneficial books and approach our God and Creator, our Heavenly Father and Closest Friend, Who invites us into His Kingdom, the Kingdom of Love, Peace, Mercy and Light.Continue Reading
On the feastday of the Meeting of the Lord at the Archbishop’s chapel of All Saints of Russia, Croydon, the ruling archbishop, the Very Most Reverend Hilarion, together with Archpriests Michael Boikov, Michael Li and Priest James Carles and in the presence of Protodeacon German Polorotov and Deacon Alexander Kotlaroff, served the Divine Liturgy.Continue Reading
You are invited to attend an
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
7.30pm on Monday 12 February 2007
To be held at All Saints of Russia Russian
Orthodox Church, Chelmsford Avenue, Croydon
“Saint Seraphim of Sarov and the
Restoration of Diveeyevo Monastery”
Trip to Australia
Archimandrite Alexis (Pobjoy)
Saint Edward Brotherhood
St. Cyprian’s Avenue, Brookwood, Surrey GU24 0BL, England.
I was invited to speak at the 42nd Annual Russian Orthodox Youth Conference of the Australia – New Zealand Diocese of ROCA, held in Adelaide. I flew from Heathrow on 13th December and stayed a couple of days in Singapore Continue Reading
Tithes and Offerings
Very Rev Dr Michael Protopopov OAM
Dean of the Churches in the State of Victoria
A Lecture from the 42nd Annual Russian Orthodox Youth Conference
Adelaide, December 2006
MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, having heard the account of Our Lord overturning the tables of the money changers and driving them from the Temple in Jerusalem,[1] believe that money has no place in the life of the Church. This belief is reinforced by such quotations as: “Money is the root of all evil[2] … A rich man shall find it almost impossible to enter the Kingdom of Heaven[3] …etc.”Continue Reading
MOSCOW: January 30, 2007
On Tuesday, January 30, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II met with a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia at the Patriarchal Residence in Chisty Pereulok in Moscow. Continue Reading
