Thursday, November 27, 2008
JOHNSTOWN, PA - In recent months, interest has been expressed by the SCOBA endorsed Orthodox Christian Network, (OCN) to collaborate with our diocese in producing educational programing for the popular Come Receive the Light Radio Program. Of particular interest to OCN is the work of the Diocesan Apostolate For Youth (DAY). Plans are being made to produce several Orthodox Teen Talk Online (OTTO) programs during the coming year which will feature diocesan youth informally dialoguing about contemporary moral issues facing teenagers. Read more...
Thursday, November 06, 2008
JOHNSTOWN, PA - Fr. Andrew Fetchina, the Director of the Diocesan Apostolate For Youth will be a featured guest speaker on the Come Receive the Light Radio Program on November 21, 2008. Fr. Andrew will speak on the topic Raising Faithful Kids in Today's World.
Fr. Andrew will speak with Fr. Chris Metropulos, the Executive Director of the SCOBA endorsed Orthodox Christian Network and host of the Come Receive the Light Radio Program about raising kids that are "compassionate, but committed" to their Orthodox Christian Faith. Tune in for practical insight on sexuality, violence in the media, pluralism, abortion, promiscuity and other issues that confront young people and their parents today. Read more...
Monday, September 15, 2008
JOHNSTOWN, PA - His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas has established a diocesan-wide relief effort for the horrific damage in Texas and Louisiana caused by Hurricane Ike. Each diocesan parish is asked to take up a special collection on Sunday September 21, 2008. It is requested that each parish forward their parish gift immediately after the collection so that it arrives at the Chancery no later than September 26, 2008. Parish checks are to be made payable to ACROD. The Diocese will then forward a sum-total gift to an appropriate relief agency. Read more...
Friday, August 15, 2008
JOHNSTOWN, PA - His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas has announced today, that plans are underway for the 23rd Annual Know Your Faith Diocesan Educational Conference which will take place will take place on Saturday September 13, 2008. Read more...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
JOHNSTOWN, PA - His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas has been invited by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to be part of a Patriarchal Delegation to Kiev, Ukraine to attend the festivities of the 1020th anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus, which will take place from July 25-27, 2008. Read more...
Saturday, July 19, 2008
JOHNSTOWN, PA - The Third Annual All-Diocese Youth Pilgrimage will be held on August 15-17, 2008 (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) at Camp Nazareth in Mercer, Pennsylvania. The Youth Pilgrimage will start a day before the Diocesan Summer Pilgrimage held in honor of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Jesus Christ and the Dormition of the Mother of God. It will conclude Sunday afternoon. Read more...
Sunday, June 15, 2008
On the Christian Feast of Pentecost, the fiftieth day after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Mother of God and the Apostles who were gathered together in the Upper Room. John the Baptist once predicted that Christ would baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Luke 3.16): at Pentecost, at nine o'clock in the morning, the prophecy of the Forerunner came true in the fullness of divine power and joy. Read more...
Friday, June 06, 2008
STRATFORD, CT - The Very Rev. Protopresbyter Stephen Shutack fell asleep in the Lord on Friday June 6, 2008. Father Stephen, pastor Emeritus of St. John The Baptist Orthodox Church, Stratford, CT (Silver Lane), along with Pani Helen lived in retirement Bridgeport, CT. Read more...
