Special Announcements & Events
2014 Diocesan Parish Life Conference
May 05, 2014
Check out this year's parish life conference schedule. Join us in Plymouth this June 19-22! Great workshops and great fellowship! Sign up today! Read more »
Holy Week 2014
April 14, 2014
We welcome all to join us throughout the year at our Liturgical Services and especially during Holy Week leading up to the Glorious Feast of Great and Holy Pascha. Read more »
Compline and Syria at the Crossroads
April 04, 2014
Bishop ELIAS Toume of Wadi Al Nassara will be at St. George Church, West Roxbury, MA, on Monday evening, April 7th to celebrate the Arabic Compline Service and give a presentation on Christians in Syria at the Crossroads. Read more »
Memory Eternal! His Eminence Metropolitan Philip
March 20, 2014
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, with great sadness, announces the passing unto life eternal of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America. May his memory be eternal! Details are forthcoming. Read more »
Rejoicing at Release of Captive Nuns
March 10, 2014
On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 9, 2014, multiple media outlets including a leading newspaper in Lebanon, The Daily Star, reported that the thirteen nuns held in captivity by Syrian rebels for over three months were freed late in the day, as a result of Lebanese and Qatari mediation. Read more »
If you Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: How Christ Transcends Good & Bad. The Annual Father John Von Holzhausen Lecture
March 04, 2014
Speaker Dr. Jan N. H. Perkins considers how false notions of good and evil are formed, and how relative human notions of good and evil often have very little to do with the GOOD of God, or with the Evil of Diabolos — the principle of fragmentation, dissociation, and division. Read more »
Divine Liturgy with the Patriarch of Antioch, John X and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill
February 10, 2014
January 26, 2014, during the 31st Sunday after Pentecost, on the Epiphany, His Beatitude Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, John X and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Liturgy in the Cathedral opened the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Read more »
The world's most ancient Christian communities are being destroyed — and no one cares
February 10, 2014
Christians in the Middle East have been the victims of pogroms and persecution. Where's the outrage in the West? Christians are murdered in mob violence or by militant groups. Their churches are bombed, their shops destroyed, and their homes looted. Laws are passed making them second-class citizens, and the majority of them eventually leave. Read more »
9th Annual 2014 Chinese New Year Missions Breakfast
February 06, 2014
At St Mary’s we will celebrate the Chinese New Year on Sunday February 9 with a Chinese Missions potluck breakfast, after the Divine Liturgy, to benefit the Chinese Translation Project via the Orthodox Fellowship of All Saints of China. Read more »
The Coptic Christians of Egypt: 60 Minutes Episode
December 30, 2013
The turmoil in Egypt has led to one of the worse persecutions of the country's Coptic Christians in the nearly 2,000-year history of the sect. Bob Simon reports from Egypt. Read more »