Special Announcements & Events
Ordination at St. George Church Lawrence, MA
August 23, 2022
All are invited to join His Grace Bishop JOHN and the Diocese clergy at Divine Liturgy for the Ecclesiastical New Year Wednesday, August 31 at 6:00 pm at St. George Church (8 Lowell St, Lawrence, MA). At the Divine Liturgy, His Grace will ordain Deacon Ephraim Hastings to the Holy Priesthood and install him as the new pastor at St. George in Lawrence. Fr. Ephraim & Kh. Rheanna will succeed the V. Rev. Fr. Edward and Matushka Anna Hughes who retired this month after 40+ years of service in the Archdiocese. Read more »
2022 PLC
May 26, 2022
Our annual Diocese Parish Life Celebration will be held at the Cape Codder Resort & Spa, July 8-10, 2022 hosted by St. Mary Church in Cambridge, MA! Read more »
COVID Update - May 19, 2022
May 19, 2022
After careful and extensive discussion, the Covid Committee has decided to reinstate the mask mandate for everyone over the age of 5 while inside the church. Read more »
Palm Sunday Fish Dinner
April 07, 2022
On Palm Sunday, April 17, the Hospitality Group invites you to stay for the annual Palm Sunday Fish Dinner, donated by Ed and Lisa Brylczyk. We are requesting attendees RSVP ahead so we can approximate headcount. Read more »
Pysanky (Ukrainian Egg) Workshop - April 10
March 24, 2022
The Hospitality Group and Khouriya Carol are co-hosting a session for teens through adults to learn the beautiful art of Ukrainian egg coloring, taught by Seraphim Davis on Sunday, April 10 from 1 - 6pm. Read more »
The Body as Ritual Space: St. Maximos the Confessor and the Architecture of Deification
March 17, 2022
The Pappas Patristic Institute at HCHC invites you to a public lecture to inaugurate the 2022 Colloquium on the Mystagogy of St Maximos the Confessor. In this lecture, Fr Maximos Constas will explore St Maximos’s commentary on the Divine Liturgy known as the Mystagogy, with special attention to the way in which the liturgical space of the church is mapped onto the interior space of the soul in a reciprocal exchange of sacred architecture and the body. Read more »
2022 Diocesan Lenten Retreat
March 17, 2022
All are invited to attend the annual Diocese Lenten Retreat on Saturday, March 26 sponsored by the Diocese of Worcester & New England Antiochian Women. We are very excited to welcome Demetrios Katos as the Keynote Speaker for 2022! Demetrios is the Director of Giving and College Initiatives at Northeastern University, and he received his Ph.D. in religion from the Catholic University of America. Prior to coming to Northeastern, he was the Dean of Hellenic College in Brookline, MA. Read more »
Sunday of Orthodoxy 2022
March 09, 2022
This year, please join us on Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 5pm at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Jamaica Plain, MA for the annual Pan-Orthodox Celebration of Vespers for the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Read more »
IOCC Ukraine Relief Fund
March 02, 2022
In response to the crisis in Ukraine, IOCC is working with partners in country and across the region to help address immediate needs, while looking ahead and planning for longer-term aid. Read more »
COVID Update - November 22, 2021
January 30, 2022
In view of the recent uptick in COVID cases, particularly the increase in children 5-9 years of age in Massachusetts as reported on the national news on November 22, 2021 and the upcoming holidays, the Covid Committee and Father Antony have met and decided the following effective November 28, 2021. Read more »