Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon

To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, my beloved children in the Lord: Christ is in our midst! I greet you at the outset of the Lenten fast, and I assure you of my prayers for you during this sacred season. I pray that the coming Forty Days will be a time of soul-saving struggle for all of you. When […]

2024 Lenten Message from His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin

To the Reverend Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of the West, Dearly beloved, Great Lent historically was the time of catechism in the life of the Church. Those answering the call to embrace Christ and His Holy Church were instructed in the Faith and prepared for baptism. The great procession of the newly-baptized into the Church is echoed in our paschal procession today at […]

A Brief Confession Before Father Confessors

From the Full Confession of St. Demetrius of Rostov I confess to the Lord my God and before thee, venerable father, all my countless sins, committed by me unto this very day and hour, in deed, word and thought. I sin daily and hourly by mine ingratitude toward God for His great and countless blessings and benevolent providence over me, a sinner. I have sinned […]

Nativity of our Lord 2023

To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, my beloved children in the Lord, Christ is born! Glorify him! At the Vigil for today’s feast, we sang with the words of St. Germanus of Constantinople: “Today the Virgin gives birth to the Maker of all. Eden offers a cave and a star discloses Christ, the Sun, to those in darkness” (second […]