Parish News
March 15, 2025 / March 15, 2025 by Антоний
On March 15, Saturday of the departed, in Boston (Davao Oriental Province) in the Philippines, Hieromonk John (Gondayao), chairman of the diocesan Department of Religious Education and Catechesis, performed the sacrament of Baptism for six people. They are members of a local family that has been studying Orthodoxy for several years. The believers have long […]
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March 8, 2025 / March 8, 2025 by Антоний
From Monday to Thursday of the first week of Great Lent, Orthodox believers in the Philippines and Vietnam, together with the entire Church, read the canon of St. Andrew of Crete. Services were held in English, Cebuano, and Church Slavonic.
March 3, 2025 / March 7, 2025 by Антоний
Lent is beginning — a time of special good deeds. And we finally, with the help of the Christian Book Foundation, opened a collection for the roof of the temple in honor of the Prophet Elijah. The temple is very remarkable — it is located in the mountain village of Magulo near the Matutum volcano. […]
March 3, 2025 / March 3, 2025 by Антоний
On Monday of the first week of Great Lent, in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the city of Vung Tau, Vietnam, Great Compline was celebrated with the reading of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete.
On Cheesefare Sunday, the remembrance of Adam’s cast out from Paradise, Forgiveness Sunday, the Divine Liturgy and Vespers with the Rite of Forgiveness were celebrated at the parish of Saint Blessed Xenia of Petersburg in Hanoi, Vietnam. After the service, the rector of the parish, Abbot Micah (Selyakov), and parishioners discussed important components of the […]