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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Addresses the Fullness of the Russian Orthodox Church

patriach_kiril_2014Dear Brothers and Sisters, I appeal now to the Fullness of our Church, to all the peoples of historic Rus.

There can be nothing more important for us today than the continuing fratricide which is blazing on the territory of Ukraine, taking away more and more lives.

What is happening today, primarily in the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, and how are the members of our Holy Church, to assess it?

In the southern regions of historic Rus, internecine strife has now flared up.

The consequences of the bloody conflict are horrifying. No longer only a hundred, like in Kiev over the winter, but many, many hundreds have died, thousands have been wounded and left homeless. Only the devil can celebrate victory, when brothers take up arms against each other, destroy each other, maim each other, weaken the life-force of the people.Continue Reading

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Sunday 18 May 2014
Your Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, Reverend Fathers, Esteemed Guests, honoured brothers and sisters in Christ,
Christ is Risen!

annunciation_church_bris2014I would like to thank you all for joining your prayers with ours today as we celebrate some very important milestones in the life of our humble parish. A parish is a living organism – an organic whole which is composed of its members living in Communion with Christ and with each other. A parish therefore, lives and breathes, and like any living thing, it also experiences joys and sorrows, phases of growth and consolidation, sometimes even it experiences struggle and pain. We would never say that the success of a human being is always the same as his or her physical health, but rather, what he or she has achieved in their lifetime despite all of the limitations that they face. In life, we see people who have been born into abject poverty or strife, Continue Reading

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concert_cathedral_strathfield_2В воскресенье 11 мая, когда австралийцы празднуют День матери, в зале при Петропавловском соборе в Стратфилде состоялся концерт молодых музыкантов. Выступления детей были не только подарком для мам, но и имели благотворительную цель – помочь строительству женского монастыря на юге штата Новый Южный Уэльс.

В этот день из Свято-Введенского монастыря в Бангарби, о строительстве которого мы рассказывали нашим читателям и раньше (http://www.unification.com.au/articles/read/1396/), приехали две монахини – мать Кристина и сестра Ангелина. Continue Reading

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Episcopal Assembly 2014 ACommuniqué

The members of the 4th Episcopal Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania welcomed the opportunity to meet in Sydney on Monday 28th April, 2014, under the chairmanship ex officio of His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos of Australia.

Present were: His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos (Ecumenical Patriarchate); His Eminence Archbishop Paul (Antiochian Church); His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Russian Church – Australia & New Zealand); His Grace Bishop Irinej (Serbian Church); His Grace Bishop Mihail (Romanian Church); His Eminence Metropolitan Amphilochios (Ecumenical Patriarchate – New Zealand); His Grace Bishop Ezekiel (Assistant Bishop); His Grace Bishop Seraphim (Assistant Bishop); His Grace Bishop Nikandros (Assistant Bishop) and His Grace Bishop Iakovos (Assistant Bishop). Continue Reading