Magnificent liturgical gathering in Los Angeles
2. September 2019 - 12:55Diocesan Days – Day One at the St. Sava Church in San Gabriel, California
For months the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in San Gabriel, California has been actively beautifying their church, parish hall and grounds in preparation of hosting the annual Diocesan Days celebration on this jubilee year 2019, as we mark the 800th anniversary of the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church. With the blessings of His Grace Bishop Maxim of Western America the annual Diocesan Days celebration came to an official start on Friday, August 30, 2019, as distinguished guests, clergy, monastics and the faithful began to slowly arrive to St. Sava’s Church in San Gabriel. As is the established custom, this annual celebration in the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America, per the blessings of the diocesan bishop, dedicates the first day and first order of business to a clergy seminar. This year’s seminar was led by the Most Venerable Archimandrite Metodije of the Royal Lavra Hilandar Monastery.
Feast day of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God in Vienna
2. September 2019 - 12:32On the feast day of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Grace Bishop Andrej of Austria-Switzerland served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church of Saint Sava in Vienna.
The Bishop was concelebrated by presbyters Miljan Antic and Djordje Pantelic, parish priests of the Cathedral church.
Church slava of Podmaine Monastery
31. August 2019 - 16:08Metropolitan Amfilohije: Future of the whole world is in Orthodox Church
On the day when the Church celebrates Saint Rafailo of Banat, 29 August 2019, on the occasion of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God - church slava of the Podmaine Monastery and the nameday of the abbot of this holy monastery Rafailo (Boljevic), His Eminence Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in this holy place near Budva.
Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God - Patron Saint-day of the town of Pancevo
31. August 2019 - 16:04This year citizens of Pancevo celebrated solemnly the Patron Saint-day (slava) of the church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God with the Holy Liturgy, a procession through the city and for the first time, breaking the slava cake in the Town Hall.
With the effort of the clergy of the Holy Dormition church the town authorities accepted that from this year the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God is celebrated as the town slava.
Construction of Holy Trinity church in Argentina is in progress
30. August 2019 - 13:14The church of Holy Trinity in the town of Resistencia, which construction was began by the youngest diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Diocese of Buenos Aires and South-Central America, upon the blessing of then Administrator of the Diocese Metropolitan Amfilohije, has been getting its shape.
The church is being constructed on the land which was donated to the Serbian Orthodox Church by the Ministry of Education of the Province of Chaco upon the proposal of Mayor of Resistencia Mr. Jorje (Djordje) Kapitanic.