17 Sep 21 Open Letter from Bishop George of Canberra to the Honourable Gladys Berejiklian and the Honourable Daniel Andrews
24 Jul 21 Invitation to Faith&Wisdom: Family Edition online talk on Technology and the family
Dear brothers and sisters,
The Holy Annunciation parish in QLD will be holding its next Faith&Wisdom: Family Edition talk online where we will be discussing the topic: Technology and the family: Friend or Foe? In our current technological age, we are inundated with devices that are designed to make our lives easier. But what are the impacts of this technology on the family unit and what is the right balance for Orthodox Christians? (more…)
31 Mar 21 His Grace Bishop George celebrates the Divine Liturgy at St Sava’s College, Varroville
On Sunday, 28 March 2021, the second week of Great Lent, His Grace Bishop George of Canberra was invited to concelebrate the Divine Liturgy with His Grace Bishop Siluan of Australia and New Zealand of the Serbian Orthodox Church at St. Sava’s College, Varroville NSW.
Co-serving with the hierarchs were clerics of the Serbian Orthodox Church Archpriests: Nikola Bilić, Sasa Stojanović, and Goran Ćećez, Protodeacon Petar Mrakić, Deacon Miloš and Protodeacon Alexander Kotlaroff cleric of St’s Peter and Paul Cathedral Strathfield (ROCOR). (more…)
5 Jan 21 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Hilarion Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad
Your Graces, brother-archpastors, reverend fathers, beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord!
GREETINGS ON THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST!
By God’s ineffable goodness, we enter once more into the joyous days of the great feasts of Christ’s Nativity and Theophany. I sincerely greet you all with this world-saving joy! The works of faith and its fruit in life must be from this joy: from the triumph of the Theophany ‒ God’s manifestation and incarnation ‒ and the sound of the Heavenly doxology and otherworldly peace being sung over Bethlehem. (more…)
30 Dec 20 Литургический справочник по практике Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей / The Liturgical Handbook of the Practices of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
Западно-Европейская епархия имеет честь объявить о публикации на своем веб-сайте обновленного и расширенного «Литургического справочника по практике Русской Православной Церкви заграницей», который впервые доступен в полноценном формате на русском и английском языках. С литургическим справочником можно ознакомиться здесь.
The Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe is pleased to announce publication on its web site of the newly-revised and expanded Liturgical Handbook of the Practices of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which is now available for the first time in complete English and Russian editions. The Liturgical Handbook can be accessed here.
11 Dec 20 Протоиерей Георгий Ларин: «Курская икона Божией Матери хранит нас, а не мы её»
В декабре Русская Зарубежная Церковь планирует торжественно отметить 725 лет со дня прославления Курской Коренной иконы Божией Матери. Одна из величайших православных святынь, которую белые эмигранты вывезли из России в 1920-м году, стала путеводительницей Русского рассеяния. Далее читайте здесь.
19 Nov 20 Jubilee Epistle of His Eminence Hilarion Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad
Your Graces Brother-Archpastors, Honorable Fathers,
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord!
I sincerely greet you with the 725th Anniversary of the appearance of the miraculous Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God of the “Sign,” and with the Centennial of the founding of the Higher Church Administration Abroad, which later was transformed into the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad. We are not marking the events that destroyed all the foundations of Pre-Revolutionary Russia, and which hit extremely hard on our dear Mother – the Local Russian Orthodox Church – having pushed Her, together with the whole country, onto a path of great suffering, repression, martyrdom and confession. Rather, we raise up gratitude to God, Who has preserved us under the shelter of our precious Orthodox Faith, in the traditions of the glorious Russian Church. (more…)
19 Nov 20 Юбилейное послание Высокопреосвященнейшего Илариона, митрополита Восточно-Американского и Нью-Йоркского, Первоиерарха Русской Зарубежной Церкви
Преосвященные собратья-архипастыри, всечестные отцы,
возлюбленные о Господе братья и сестры!
Сердечно приветствую вас с 725-летием явления чудотворного образа Божией Матери «Знамение» Коренно-Курского и 100-летием основания Высшего Церковного Управления за границей, преобразованного потом в Архиерейский Синод Русской Зарубежной Церкви. Не празднуем мы события, разрушившие все устои дореволюционной России и крайне тяжело отразившиеся на нашей дорогой Матери – Поместной Русской Православной Церкви, толкнув ее, вместе со всей страной, на путь великих страданий, репрессий, мученичества и исповедничества. Нет, мы возносим благодарность Богу, Сохранившему нас под сенью родной Веры Православной, в уставах славной Церкви Русской. (more…)