On June the 2d and the 3d of this year the great Holy Icon of our Russian Orthodox Church – the Wonderworking Kursk Root Icon of Our Lady of the Sign – will for the first time visit the Patriarchal Cathedral of Saint Barbara in Edmonton. This icon appeared to people for the first time [...]
Orthodox V Charitable Association held it’s Annual General Meeting on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. President Andy Shupenia called the meeting to order. The previous years minutes were read and adopted. Discussion took place in regards to some potential upgrades to the residence for the minister. Financially, the organization is doing quite well. The two major [...]
During the Service in the church of St. Apostle Jacob in Mundare, Alberta, the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in Canada Bishop Iov (Job) awarded A Certificate of Merit (“The Bishop’s Gramota”) – to Marshall Chmilar – who is now quitting his position due to health problems – for many years of serving as [...]
To His Grace, The Right Reverend Bishop Iov of Kashira, The Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in Canada Your Grace, Dear Vladika! I want to express to You, dear Vladika, my most sincere condolences on the bereavement over the departure of Victor Theodorovich Lopushinsky – the oldest parishioner and a volunteer-employee [...]
Memory Eternal! LOPUSHINSKY, Victor On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, Victor Theodore Lopushinsky, the Honorary Member the Church Board of St. Barbara Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Edmonton, AB, passed away peacefully at the age of 97. Victor will be sadly missed and forever remembered by his wife of 38 years, Lucy and his children, Diane (Jerry) [...]
On October 4, 2012 a regular meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church took place in the Patriarchal and Synodal Office in St. Daniel’s Monastery under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill. The Synod reviewed a number of issues related to foreign institutions of the Moscow [...]
A recent documentary by Dr. Norris Chumley and Rev. Dr. John McGuckin (Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese, New York, NY) entitled Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer (www.mysteriesofthejesusprayer.com) retraces the steps of those 6th century Christian pilgrims, taking us to the sites they visited (Egypt, Holy Mount Athos (Greece), Romania, Ukraine and Russia), which still function as places [...]
Summer implies rest, summer implies vacations, it implies journeys and adventures… Summer brings forth visiting new places, new impressions and new friends. And when these new encounters are correlated with the pilgrimages and glorification of God, when we come across people who are similar in spirit, the memories of such vacations will be cherished by [...]
From the 5th to the 11th of August 2012 the Orthodox children summer camp was organized by the Patriarchal Parishes in Canada and took place, as in previous years, in the picturesque place on the shores of Pigeon Lake in the Province of Alberta. This year the summer camp was planned and prepared by the [...]
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