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Metropolitan Nicholas blesses the faithful with dikiri and trikiri during the Divine Liturgy on the night of Holy Pascha (April 3/16, 2023)

April 26, 2023 0

“Ye are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14), said the Lord to His disciples. And we, dear fathers, brothers and sisters, counting ourselves as among the disciples of Christ, are called to preach His Resurrection both with a good word and by the power of living according to the Gospel.

Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York

The Crown of Wisdom is the Fear of the Lord

Metropolitan NICHOLAS of Eastern America & New York

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

January 5, 2023 0

It is the fear of God — that is, sensing the Divine presence in our lives and walking reverently before God, fearing to grieve Him through sin — that leads to peace; for “the fear of the Lord”, as the Old Testament sage writes, “is glory and honor, happiness and the crown of joy."

Blessed are the Peacemakers

Council of Bishops (ROCOR)

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

September 26, 2022 0

We therefore exhort all the faithful children of the Church to be such peacemakers, and to be, as His Beatitude Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) once called us, "sons of the Resurrection."

Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York

To Join the Suffering is the Work of the Church

Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America & New York

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

April 24, 2022 1

Paschal Epistle of His Eminence HILARION, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad

Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Let Us Worship Him with the Wise Men

Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America & New York

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

January 4, 2022 0

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!

Their Legacy Is On Our Shoulders

Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America & New York

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

August 30, 2021 0

JUBILEE EPISTLE of His Eminence Metropolitan HILARION on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of the Birth of the Holy Right-Believing Great Prince Alexander Nevsky and the Centennial of the I All-Diaspora Council

The World-Saving Joy of Nativity

Deacon Peter Markevich

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

January 5, 2021 0

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!

Let us Continue to Walk the Royal Path

Dcn. Michael Cook

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

November 25, 2020 0

Jubilee Epistle of His Eminence Hilarion Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad NEW YORK: November 18, 2020

The Glorification of St Herman of Alaska in the Russian Church

Dcn. Michael Cook

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

August 12, 2020 0

Epistle of Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad on the 50th...

On Rejoicing in the Desert

Deacon Peter Markevich

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

April 20, 2020 0

From my whole heart, I wish for you all to spend these all-joyous days in good health and cheerful disposition, perceiving the victorious power of God and the illumination of the Light of His Resurrection on the Third Day, so that in the future, when it seems to us that “Hades doth reign,” we might remember that its reign over us is “not forever,” as we read in the canon of Great Saturday, and that we might find in that the strength to overcome any trials in this life!

The Newborn Christ Renews our Hearts

Dcn. Michael Cook

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

January 2, 2020 0

Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Be of Good Cheer; I Have Overcome the World

Deacon Peter Markevich

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

April 26, 2019 0

Paschal Epistle of His Eminence HILARION, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside...

Group portrait of the participants of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Buchendorf, June, 2017

ROCOR Synod on the Ecclesial Catastrophe in Ukraine

Deacon Peter Markevich

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

October 18, 2018 0

The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has no option except, with profound sorrow and yet with full conviction, publicly to register her assent with the decision of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow.