Parishes News

Photo report from the parish feast of the St. Jacob’s Russо Orthodox Church, Mundare.

Rv. Priest Anthony Filchak is released from the position of a clergyman of the Patriarchal Parishes in Canada

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 […]

“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer” Documentary FIlm, the Book and CD – a good Study Package

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 […]

The summer trip to the children Orthodox Bible Camp “Barvinok”.

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 […]

The annual summer camp for children of the Patriarchal Parishes took place in “Barvinok”.

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 […]