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06.01.12
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Another (the third) attempt of the enemies of the Russian Orthodox Church has failed. The terrorists were not able to burn the building of the Ascension Church of ROCA in Barnaul, Russia. The fire started by an alien at night of January 6th, 2012 was stopped by fire brigades. The outer wall of the economic extension was partially burned though.
Services in the Church are continued in spite of having the electricity turned off!
See also the site of the parish: http://www.hram.alt-srn.ru/
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26.11.11
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On November 10, 2011, the Synod of Bishops resolved:
to bless the start of raising funds
for the purchase of a residence for the Synod.
To that end, address everyone in our clergy and flocks and ask them
to actively participate in this necessary work.
A possible property that can be purchased is a rowhouse in Astoria, NY, USA, located next to our Holy Trinity Church. It is a three-level house with one large room on the basement level, a living room, kitchen and one room on the ground level and four bedrooms on the upper level. The owner is asking $650,000. for the house. To obtain a mortgage from a bank, we need to put down 20%, which is $130,000. If we gather this amount, we can purchase this property or a similar
one for use by our Synod.Appeal
From the ROCA First Hierarch Metropolitan Agafangel
to all faithful members of the Church AbroadDear brethren Archpastors, honorable pastors and God-loving laypeople!
I address all of you with the blessing of our Synod of Bishops. -
28.08.11
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All parish rectors and anyone else who wishes to order the liturgical calendar and typicon can do so by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please bear in mind that in accordance with a decision of the Synod of Bishops only this typicon can be used in all church services. The number of copies published will be determined by the amount of orders.
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11.04.11
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ROCA Ascension Parish in Barnaul continues serving Leturgies in the new building. After raider attacks and taking over we have built a temple congregation and the rector moved away, so to speak "in prepared positions". As of today, that is, 30/III (12/IV) 201, in the new building were held for five services, including the two Divine Liturgy. I can testify from my own inner experience and the words of the parishioners, which is less fertile, than in a selected temple, despite the paucity of external, these services were not. God is glorified in the first place, in our souls. Consciously make a choice in favor of maintaining the purity of faith in the external losses did the trick. We feel sorry for those people who prefer the convenience and comfort of uncomplicated conscience.
Priest Georgy Titov.
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30.12.10
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Открытое письмо в Барнаульскую епархию РПЦ МП
Епископу Барнаульскому и Алтайскому Максиму.Преосвященнейший Владыко!
Мы, члены Вознесенского прихода, вышедшего из РПЦ Московского патриархата, решили написать Вам письмо, чтобы объяснить Вам причины нашего выхода и обратиться к Вам с просьбой.
Обращаем Ваше внимание на то, что наш приход расположен в Научном городке, и это обуславливает особенности коллектива прихожан. Все это люди высокообразованные, постоянно и много читающие духовную литературу и следящие за всем происходящим в стране, в церкви и в мире. Поэтому мы отчетливо понимаем те процессы, которые ныне происходят в Московской патриархии и в других религиях мира.
А происходит сближение всех религий, о чем православных России предупреждали старцы ХIХ, ХХ, и нашего нынешнего века. И это сближение идёт ускоряющимися темпами, что приближает к нам конец света. Но понимать всё и спокойно продолжать ничего не делать по выходу из этой ситуации невозможно!
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18.12.10
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16 декабря в арбитражном апелляционном суде г. Вологды прошло слушание дела о передаче представителям РПЦ МП здания в д.Жаборы Псковской обл., более 15 лет занимаемого общиной РПЦЗ. В ответ на незаконное и необоснованное решение Псковского арбитражного суда о признании права собственности за подавшем иск приходом МП, нашей стороной была подана апелляция. Как ни печально, но в этом иске и принятом по нему решении, обращает на себя внимание, так сказать, «симфония непорядочности» между некоторыми представителями церковной и светской власти. Ни в иске, ни в решении не упоминается о том, что здание находится в пользовании чадами РПЦЗ, а представитель местной администрации в духе этой «симфонии» выдал справку о том, что в этом здании никто не проживает. Сам Псковский суд в определении от 14 мая 2010 г. указал, что «спорный объект не находится у заявителя, в связи с чем следует решить вопрос о привлечении к участию в деле лиц, в пользовании которых находится объект.»
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03.12.10
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The appellate court of Vologda upheld the decision of the city court on August 9, 2010, which ordered Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kolmakov not to take her underage son "to a church at where ROCA priest Fr. Aleksandr Lipin is the rector and to not hold any religious services at home." This order satisfies the charge made by the representative of the MP Church in Vologda. The charge named the Church of St. Seraphim in Vologda and others pastored by Fr. Aleksandr as part of a "totalitarian sect." The court refused to consider documents from Fr. Aleksandr showing that the church was the legal property of the ROCA.
ROCANA Update: January 22, 2012

ST. INNOCENT PARISH CHURCH FEAST
SCHEDULE OF JANUARY SERVICES FOR CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION
SCHEDULE OF FEBRUARY SERVICES FOR CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (Astoria, NY)
Рождественская Елка в Астории
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ROCANA Update: January 8, 2012
There are no translations available. Greetings on the Nativity of Our Lord!
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Dear Fellow Archpastors, most honorable pastors, God-loving monastics and laypeople!
Since ancient times, the lives of communities have been interwoven with various historical periods, rises and falls that have their beginnings, their everyday life and continuation. Some gather to form nations, confess various faiths, live according to different calendars and ways to denote the passing of the years and have different spiritual destinies. For some, life is wrapped up in ongoing activities and busy concerns, while others believe in the existence of other worlds and an other life. For some, the entire world that surrounds them is limited to the frame of life and death, while others contemplate the infinite nature of life and existence. In this realm marked by enormous diversity of people’s lives and their understanding of creation, we Christians are also included. We are few in relation to the total number of people on earth (especially if out of those who call themselves Christians you only consider the Orthodox who live by the “old” Julian calendar and the teachings of the holy forefathers), and Christianity itself no longer determines the trajectory of human development. There was a time when Christianity subdued and vanquished paganism, but now we live in an opposite time, when paganism in its many forms is foremost in people’s minds. We constantly see proof of more divergences from Christ, but these divergences are not the result of people acquiring new knowledge and are not characterized by a new, higher plane of spiritual development. Just the opposite, these divergences are proof of the loss of faith and the debasing of mankind to the level of being driven by its instincts.
“When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8) is not a rhetorical question, but constitutes a fact of what will occur and what is already occurring. All those on earth commonly believe that Christianity certainly cannot pretend to be more dominant above all other faiths. Just the opposite, Christianity as a whole surrenders its principles and attempts to strengthen its place in society with the desperation of a drowning person by, on the one hand, promoting the ecumenist movement among Christians and on the other hand, by the deadly policy of eliminating differences with other religions. Unfortunately, as a result we now have so-called “World Orthodoxy,” which has not been Orthodoxy for a long time already, and the “modernized” Christianity, where Christ does not exist. Globalism, which has overcome all of mankind, does not provide and cannot provide a different ideal other than the traditional humanistic ideal, that is, mankind itself, temporal and helpless before even the simplest of cataclysms of nature. The foundation of globalism includes one common keystone that distinguishes its essence – unbelief. That is why it is inevitably doomed, because it leads to a dead-end and cannot lead to anywhere else. Unfortunate are those who succumbed to the spirit of the modern world and do not trust in God in this life!
In this circumstance, it is faith that distinguishes us Christians – faith in Christ. Faith that God became incarnate and came to this world, bore witness of Himself through many miracles and His Holy teachings, died, resurrected and promised eternal life to all those who believe in Him. All the many different societies and worlds are bound up in one Figure, in Christ, and these words will remain real for us for eternity, “I believe and confess, Lord, that You are truly the Christ, Son of the living God, who came into the world to save sinners.” Only those who confess Christ will live on for eternity. The entire point of creation is bound up in this belief. Our lives, really our own, do not begin when we appeared on earth, but when we consciously utter the words, “I believe!” Therefore let us always hold on to the faith of the Holy Fathers, which is the beginning and essential condition of our entire lives!
I congratulate everyone with the Nativity of Christ and wish for all of us to grow and strengthen in the faith, “For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4)
The Most Reverend
+AGAFANGEL
Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
Odessa, Nativity of Christ, 2011
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Рождественское послание Преосвященнейшего Софрония, архиепископа Санкт-Петербургского и Северо-Русского
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Рождественское послание Преосвященнейшего Георгия епископа Кишинёвского и Молдавского.
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Рождественское послание епископа Вологодского и Великоустюжского Афанасия
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Рождественское послание епископа Лионского и Западно-Европейского Иринея
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Nativity homily, fr. Vsevolod Dutikov
Another attempt to burn the Church has failed
| Dioceses News - SIBIRIA DIOCESE |
Another (the third) attempt of the enemies of the Russian Orthodox Church has failed. The terrorists were not able to burn the building of the Ascension Church of ROCA in Barnaul, Russia. The fire started by an alien at night of January 6th, 2012 was stopped by fire brigades. The outer wall of the economic extension was partially burned though.
Services in the Church are continued in spite of having the electricity turned off!
See also the site of the parish: http://www.hram.alt-srn.ru/
Рождественские богослужения в Бостоне
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Приход Св. Филарета, митрополита Нью-Йоркского и Восточно-Американского проведет праздничные Рождественские богослужения по следующему расписанию:
| Пятница 06 января |
6:30 вечера |
Великое Повечерие, утреня |
| Суббота 07 января | 8:30 утра | Литургия |
| Суббота 07 января | 6:30 вечера | Всенощная |
| Воскресенье 08 января | 8:30 утра | Литургия |
ROCANA Update, January 1, 2012
| Dioceses News - EAST AMERICA DIOCESE |

- CELEBRATING THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY AT ST. VLADIMIR'S PARISH
- SCHEDULE OF JANUARY SERVICES AT HOLY ASCENSION ORTHODOX CHURCH
- SCHEDULE OF JANUARY SERVICES FOR CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION
- Fundraiser for the purchase of a residence for the Synod of Bishops
- Проповедь архиеп. Андроника в день Св. Филарета
- Проповедь мит. Агафангела, Астория, NY
- Asking your prayers
- A Declaration of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
- His Eminence Metropolitan Agafangel's Visit to USA
- The Sower № 2 (6) November/December 2011
- Проповедь митрополита Агафангела
- Письмо мит. Агафангела президенту Украины







