Australian and New Zealand Diocese (ROCOR)

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В воскресенье Святых отцов Первого Вселенского собора 31 мая русская православная община в городе Ворнамбул отметила свой 10-летний юбилей и Престольный праздник.

Обычно общину посещают около 40 человек: русские, австралийцы, греки, сербы и румыны. Но в этот раз, чтобы отметить престольный праздник и юбилей общины, собралось более 80 человек. Среди молящихся были гости из Мельбурна, Данденонга и Джилонга. (more…)

2nd Sunday after Pentecost – All Saints of Russia

Homily From “The One Thing Needful,” Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

Brothers and sisters, today the Holy Church opens before us our native heaven  —  all the Saints who shone in Russia. They shine as bright stars before us. And the first among them is St. Vladimir. He was a gifted military leader, statesman, a man of penetrating mind and strong will. The political situation among the Russian Slavs required just such a man. Many Slavic tribes were living at that time on the shores of the Dnieper River, and all of them had already been influenced by the Christian message  —  the dawn of a new life was approaching. Only our forefathers remained pagans. But by that time they too had lost faith in the pagan gods and actually had no religion at all. And the thirst for the One, True, Almighty God more and more strongly took possession of their souls. Vladimir himself was experiencing the same thing: his great soul was tired of the lie and, as a bird from its cage, was straining towards Truth, towards Light.

The same was required in the political situation as well; enlightenment and culture were in Christianity. Paganism was dying out and Christianity was becoming the new, all-powerful movement in contemporary culture and life. The acceptance of Christianity became a necessity, something which could not be put off if the Russian nation wanted to keep in step with other nations. (more…)

2nd Sunday after Pentecost – All Saints of Russia

Troparion, tone 8: As a beautiful fruit of the sowing of Thy salvation, the land of Russia offers to Thee, O Lord, all the Saints that have shone in it. By their prayers keep the Church and our land in deep peace, through the Mother of God, O Most Merciful One.

Kontakion, tone 3: Today the choir of the Saints who pleased God in our land stands before us in Church and invisibly prays for us to God. With them the Angels glorify Him, and all the Saints of the Church of Christ keep festival with them; and they all pray together for us to the eternal God. (more…)

On Sunday 1/14 June, the Feast of All the Saints, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion served Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the old monastery Church of All Saints, Kentlyn. The church is part of the original building of Our Lady of Kazan Monastery at Kentlyn. The congregation at All Saints worships in English and is served by Hieromonk Joachim, superior of the neighbouring St John the Baptist Skete.

Serving with His Eminence on Sunday were Hieromonk Joachim, Archpriest Vladimir Boikov (visiting from Auckland, New Zealand), Father Seraphim Slade, Protodeacon Christopher Henderson, Deacon Constantine Tzortzis and Deacon Adrian Augustus. During the Small Entrance His Eminence ordained Deacon Father Constantine to the rank of Protodeacon in recognition of his long service to the Skete congregation worshipping at All Saints. (more…)

This year, the parish of Saint Nicholas in Wallsend, an outer suburb of Newcastle, NSW, celebrated its patronal feast on Sunday May 24, the Sunday after the feast.

Two important occurrences made this year’s feast-day particularly memorable.  The first was the visit of our beloved First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion.  The second was the formal observance of the unification of a parish of the Moscow Patriarchate in Newcastle, the Theophany parish in Mayfield, with our parish in Wallsend. (more…)

The 2009 R.O.C.O.R. Directory is now available in Australia at a cost price of $20.00 per book. (more…)

14 июня
В Неделю Всех Святых Высокопреосвященнейший Митрополит Иларион совершит Божественную литургию во Всехсвятском храме в Богородице-Казанской обители в Кентлине (Сидней, Австралия).

19-20 июня
Предстоятель Русской Зарубежной Церкви посетит Ильинский монастырь в южной Австралии.

20-21 июня
В Неделю всех святых, в земле Российской просиявших, Высокопреосвященнейший Митрополит Иларион возглавит торжества по случаю престольного праздника своей крестовой церкви в Кройдоне (Сидней, Австралия).

22-25 июня
Первоиерарх Русской Зарубежной Церкви посетит Православную Миссию в Корее.

26-29 июня
Высокопреосвященнейший Митрополит Иларион посетит Православную Миссию в Индонезии.

4-5 июля
Председатель Архиерейского Синода совершит Всенощное бдение и Божественную литургию в Иоанно-Предтеченской церкви в Канберре, столице Австралии.

7 июля
В праздник Рождества Иоанна Предтечи Его Высокопреосвященство совершит Божественную литургию в Покровской церкви в Кабраматта (Сидней, Австралия).

11-12 июля
Высокопреосвященнейший Митрополит Иларион возглавит торжества по случаю престольного праздника Петропавловского кафедрального собора в Стратфильде (Сидней, Австралия). 

15 июля
Первоиерарх Русской Зарубежной Церкви вернется в Нью-Йорк.

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1st Sunday after Pentecost – Sunday of All Saints

Homily From “The One Thing Needful,” Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

Brothers and sisters! Last week the Holy Church placed flowers in our hands, as if saying to us: See how soulless nature is obedient to its Creator. Starting with the days of Christmas, the earth has been turning toward the sun, which began to bestow upon the earth its life-giving warmth. And nature does not prove itself ungrateful toward its Creator. In answer to His caress, she has produced this glorious beauty, these flowers, and further on, will produce fruits. And what about us? In answer to the spiritual warmth of God’s Grace, so abundantly poured out on us, do we bring to our Creator spiritual beauty, flowers, fruits of virtues? After all, He became Man for our sake, died for us, rose for us, ascended into Heaven in order to send down to us His Holy Spirit. And what about us? Is not this beauty of nature around us a reproach to our conscience? Let us answer honestly. Yes, it is. But more than this, we want to justify our negligence, our ingratitude. The commandments of Christ are wonderful, we say; and if people would begin to fulfill them, then the whole earth would be transformed into a wonderful divine garden. But is this possible for weak human strength? And here this Sunday, the Sunday of All the Saints, answers this question loudly so that the whole world hears: Yes, it is possible. (more…)