Alexander Solzhenitsyn buried in Donskoy Monastery

The body of outstanding Russian writer and public figure Alexander Solzhenitsyn was buried at the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday. Archbishop Alexy of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, the Russian Patriarch's vicar, conducted a mourning service.

President Dmitry Medvedev attended. The ceremony was without speeches. Guards of Honor had brought the coffin from the monastery's Grand Cathedral to the sound of church hymns.

Source: Interfax

4th Meeting of the Canonical Bishops in the West Coast

Monastery Marcha celebrates Slava

Richfield, OH - His Grace Bishop Mitrophan officiated at the Holy Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Saturday July 26, 2008, the feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Gabriel, the monastery Slava of Monastery Marcha in Richfield, Ohio. His Grace was assisted V. Rev. Stavrophor Stevan Stepanov, Archpriest Peter Selenoi, V. Rev. Rodney Torbic, Rev. Zivojin Jakovljevic and Rev. Milorad Orlic. Deacons Milan Medakovic and Dragoslav Kosic also served. V. Rev. Stavrophor Dragan Filipovic and Rev. Milovan Katanic were also in attendance.

Psalms- The Kovilj Monastery Choir

The Book of the Psalms - the Psalter is one of the most beautiful, most profound, and best-known books in the Old Testament. Every single truth of the Christian faith is prefigured and preached in the pages of the Psalter. God's laws, the whole act of the creation of the visible and the invisible worlds, the tumultuous history of the people of Israel, the Providence of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, the life of the Church and its temptations, a diversity of subjects on God and Man and their mutual relationship - all of these are to be found in the Book of the Psalms. Moreover, what makes the Psalms so unique is that whenever you chant or read them, you are looking as if through a mirror into your own soul!

Father Miguel Arranz S.J. passed away

On July 16, 2008 Father Miguel Arranz S.J., the well-known liturgics professor who taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, in Moscow and in St Petersburg, passed away. The funeral took place two days later, at the Jesuit chapel of the Vatican Curia in the Vatican.

Slava in Monstery Marcha in Richfield, Ohio

Monstery Marcha in Richfield, Ohio
announces the upcoming

MONASTERY SLAVA CELEBRATION
Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Gabriel

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008

Friday July 25, 2008 - Vigil at 6:00pm

Saturday July 26, 2008 - Holy Hierarchical Divine Liturgy 10:00am

Source: www.easterndiocese.org