Iulian Dumitraşcu

20th anniversary of HB Metr. Sawa’s enthronement

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, celebrates Thursday his 20th enthronement anniversary. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth hierarch to head the Polish church since it was granted autocephaly by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. As Archbishop…

May 31, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

1st anniversary of Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada’s enthronement

His Grace Ioan Casian celebrates on 07 May his 1st anniversary as Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada. His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian was born on February 20, 1969, in the city of Comăneşti, Bacău country. His parents were Priest Ioan and Preoteasa Mariana. He attended elementary school in his native city from 1975-1983, then went…

May 7, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

9 Bible Verses about Work

Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise Proverbs 12:27 Diligence is man’s precious possession. Ecclesiastes 3:13 Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.…

May 1, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

1st enthronement anniversary of HE Nicolae, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Americas

His Eminence Nicolae celebrates on 30 April his 1st anniversary as Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Americas. His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae was born in the city of Constanţa on April 15, 1967, to his parents Nicolae and Victoria, both now asleep in the Lord. He attended elementary school in his native city between 1973 and…

Apr 30, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Hieromartyr Simeon, the Kinsman of the Lord (Fish permitted)

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle and Hieromartyr Symeon the Kinsman of the Lord (Simeon) of the Seventy, was the second Bishop of Jerusalem, serving for the period of 67 to 107. He is commemorated by the Church on April 27, and on January 4 with the Seventy. St. Symeon was the son of Cleopas, the…

Apr 27, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Metr. Sawa celebrates his 80th Birthday

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland celebrates Sunday his 80th Birthday. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth hierarch to head the Polish church since it was granted autocephaly by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. As Archbishop of…

Apr 15, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates his 66th Birthday

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, celebrates on 4 April 2018 his 66th Birthday. His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III (known in the world as Elias Giannopoulos, his parents, Panagiotes-Triseugenia) was born in Gargalianes of the County of Triphylia-Messinia, in 1952.  He arrived in Jerusalem in July 1964…

Apr 4, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

St. Hypatius the Wonderworker and Bishop of Gangra; Martyr Benjamin the Deacon (Lazarus Saturday – Memorial Saturday)

1. Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra, was bishop of the city of Gangra in Paphlagonia (Asia Minor). In the year 325 he participated in the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, at which the heresy of Arius was anathematized. When Saint Hypatius was returning in 326 from Constantinople to Gangra, followers of the schismatics Novatus and…

Mar 31, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

The Annunciation (fish allowed); 5th Sunday of Great Lent

1. The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the earliest Christian feasts, and was already being celebrated in the fourth century. There is a painting of the Annunciation in the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome dating from the second century. The Council of Toledo in 656 mentions the Feast, and the Council in Trullo…

Mar 25, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Work starts to clear mines from traditional site of Jesus’s baptism

Israeli and international experts have started clearing thousands of wartime landmines and explosive devices from one of Christianity’s holiest sites, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli defense ministry said Tuesday. It said work began this week to clear about 3,000 pieces of ordnance believed to be scattered around the Qasr Al-Yahud Greek Orthodox monastery,…

Mar 21, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Kirill celebrates 42nd Anniversary of Ordination to Episcopate

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrates Wednesday, 14 March 2018, the 42nd Anniversary of his Ordination to the Episcopate. His Beatitude Kirill (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on 20 November 1946, in Leningrad. After graduation from school, he entered the Leningrad Seminary and later the Leningrad Theological Academy, from…

Mar 14, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu