Bucharest, April 18, 2025 basilica.ro The Darvari Skete in Buachrest has received a fragment of the relics of St. Matrona of Moscow, which were placed for veneration following Bridegroom Matins on Holy Tuesday. According to the abbot, Archimandrite Arsenie (Irimiea), who has a personal connection to St. Matrona, the saint chose the Darvari Skete…
April 18, 2025 17th-century Epitaphios, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Russia. Wikipedia On Holy Thursday evening, during the service of Matins for Holy Friday, one of the Church’s most beloved and moving hymns, the 15th Antiphon, is chanted: Today is suspended on a tree He Who suspended the earth upon the waters.The King of…
April 18, 2025 patriarchia.ru Three Local Churches—Russian, Romanian, and Bulgarian—consecrated Chrism this year—one of the main signs autocephaly. The Churches began the long process of making Chrism on Holy Monday, with the special mixture of oil and various spices being mixed continually for three days while clergy read the Holy Gospel over it. His…
Kiev, April 16, 2025 Photo: ctrana.media Ukrainian authorities have targeted another representative of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church—one of the highest-ranking hierarchs. Yesterday, April 15, employees of the Security Service of Ukraine conducted a search on the premises of the Kiev Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The UOC chancellor, His Eminence Metropolitan Antony…
U.S.A., April 16, 2025 Holy Cross Orthodox Church in Kernersville, North Carolina. Photo: Facebook Holy Orthodoxy has seen a surge in the number of converts in America in recent years. And with the end of Lent and the arrival of Holy Week, traditional times for receiving catechumens into the Church, several mass Baptisms and…
