Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania

Mission Vespers, Holy Trinity

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Sunday of the Holy Cross, Jermyn

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Wilkes Barre Deanery Mission Service

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Frackville Deanery Mission Service

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Lenten Pastoral visit to Shillington

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Presanctified Liturgy in Edwardsville

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Sunday of Orthodoxy

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

STS Mission Choir visits Harrisburg

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Christ the Saviour assembles IOCC Health Kits

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Scout Sunday and Haiti Relief in Mechanicsburg

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

OYAA Winter Retreat

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

FOCA Youth Retreat

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

His Grace invited to serve at Georgian Orthodox Church

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Ordination at St. Stephen's Cathedral

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

His Grace makes pastoral visit to St. Nicholas Philadelphia

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Bishop Tikhon meets with OCF at University of Pennsylvania

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

St. Stephens Cathedral celebrates Old Calendar Theophany

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

March for Life and other events in Washington D.C.

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Installation of the 16th Abbot of St. Tikhon's Monastery

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

St. Michael's Church, Jermyn, featured in Abington Journal

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

To see the article, click here.

Wilkes Barre Deanery Parish Administrative Conference / Workshop

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The conference will be held Saturday, April 17, from 9:30am to 12:30pm at St. Michael's Church in Jermyn. The conference is designed for parish Clergy, Council Presidents, Parish Treasurers, and others interested or involved in parish administration. The workshop portion will discuss and share existing models for more efficient administration, agenda planning, compliance with governing documents, budget preparations and financial accountability. There is no charge for this conference and lunch is included, thanks to the hosting parish of St. Michael's.

Please register by Sunday, April 11 with your parish priest to attend.

New OCA blog for young adults, college students launched

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Update from missionary Christina Semon

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

LENTEN MESSAGE BY HIS GRACE, BISHOP TIKHON

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Lenten Mission Schedule

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Click here to download the mission schedule.

Missionary Christina Semon makes appeal for clothing

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

OCA Christian Ed department releases new activity book on saints

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] -- The third in a series of activity books for children and parents is now available for downloading free of charge at dce.oca.org/page/activity-books.

Developed and written by several members of the Orthodox Church in America's Department of Christian Education, the book is titled "Saints Commemorated in the Litiya Prayers." Like earlier books in the series, it contains biographical stories and iconographic drawings of 12 saints, maps of their travels or the areas in which they lived, discussion questions, and puzzles and activities relating to each story. Quotations from or about each saint, photographs of those saints who lived in recent times, and a glossary round out the activity book.

Among the 12 saints presented in the new volume are the fourth century Ambrose of Milan and Catherine of Alexandria, the 11th century Anthony of the Caves in Kyiv, the 15th century Jonah of Moscow, and the late 19th/early 20th century Nicholas of Japan.

In the book's informative and engaging introduction, the Litiya is historically defined and described as “a section of Vespers that culminates in the blessing of bread, wheat, wine and oil for the strengthening of the faithful who then continue in worship during a Vigil.” It goes on to read that the selection of saints in this volume was “specifically inspired by a popular composite of names used during Vespers in many American Orthodox communities."

"Saints Commemorated in the Litiya Prayers" is geared to pre-teens and teens, although with parental guidance it also can also be useful for younger children. Like the first two books, it offers a variety of ways for young people, with their different learning styles, to get to know the lives of a very diverse group of saints.

Office of Young Adult Activities

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The newly formed Office of Young Adult Activities of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania has a new and improved website! To visit, go to www.ocayouth.org.

Church Choir Workshop

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Saturday, March 20, 2010
10am to 4pm
at Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church

5501 Old Locust Lane
Harrisburg, PA 17109
www.chirstthesaviourhbg.org

Workshop will be led by David Drillock, a former director at St. Vladimir Seminary

More information will be forthcoming