OCA.org News Digest—August 21, 2009
OCA Diocesan News and Events
Archdiocese of Canada
“Alaskan Orthodox Texts” available on line
http://www.archdiocese.ca/news.htm
http://www.asna.ca/alaska/index.html
Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania
Wyoming Valley Vacation Bible School 2009
http://doepa.org/news_090818_1.html
Sisters of Mercy from Belarus visit diocesan parishes
http://doepa.org/news_090810_1.html
http://doepa.org/news_090810_1.html
Diocese of the Midwest
48th Diocesan Assembly to be Held October 5-7, 2009, Holy Trinity Church, Overland Park, KS
http://midwestdiocese.org/assembly.html
Diocese of New England
His Grace, Bishop Nikon to visit Holy Resurrection Church, Clairmont, NH, for celebration of parish’s 100th anniversary
http://www.dneoca.org/parish_news.html
Diocese of the South
Diocesan Episcopal Search Committee Announced
https://www.dosoca.org/latest_news.html
“Spiritual Maturity in Christ” — Keynote Address of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah to the 2009 Diocesan Assembly (audio file)
http://atlantaorthodoxchurches.org/stjohn/sounds/2009_DOS_Keynote.mp3
Romanian Episcopate
60th National A.R.O.Y. Conference to be held at St. Mary Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio, September 4-6, 2009
http://conference.aroy.org/Conf09.htm
Orthodox News and Events in North America
Statement Issued by Metropolitan’s Office Regarding Placement of Antiochian Seminarians
http://www.antiochian.org/node/20271
Correspondence from His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP
http://www.antiochian.org/node/20203
Announcement from the Synodal Liturgical Music Committee of the Russian Church Abroad
http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2009/8ensynlitmusomm.html
A Pilgrimage From the Russian Church Abroad to the Holy Sites of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2009/8endcukrainetrip09.html
The Russian Church Abroad’s Commission on Dialog With the Orthodox Church in America Meets For the First Time
http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2009/8enocacommissionmeeting.html
Serbian Orthodox Church 13th Annual Diocesan Days, September 4-6, 2009
http://www.spc.rs/eng/diocesan_days_september_46_2009
http://www.spc.rs/eng/western_american_diocese_soc_13th_annual_diocesan_days_gathering
The Church is One and Indivisible A Pastoral Reflection on the administrative re-unification of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America
http://www.spc.rs/eng/church_one_and_indivisible
International Orthodox Psychotherapy Conference in Chicago, June 2010
http://www.antiochian.org/node/20264
Orthodox Christian Laity Annual Meeting at Antiochian Village
http://www.antiochian.org/node/20142
Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry Convocation Meets in Denver
http://www.antiochian.org/node/20262
FOCUS North America Extends Domestic Aid with Hundreds of Orthodox Youth Outreach Volunteers
http://www.antiochian.org/node/20233
OCAMPR Offers Pan-Orthodox Conference on Care for Severely Challenged Patients
https://www.goarch.org/news/ocampr2009conference
Orthodox World News
The Appeal by Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia on the First Anniversary of the Military Conflict in South Ossetia
http://www.patriarchate.ge/_en/?action=news_show&mode=news&id=95
His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, at the “East-West Dialogue Peace-building Seminar” in Jordan.
http://www.jerusalem-patriarchate.info/en/view.php?message_id=300
His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III Participates at the Assembly of the ‘Council of the Religious Institutions of the Holy Land’.
http://www.jerusalem-patriarchate.info/en/view.php?message_id=301
Metropolitan Elias Curban into his rest between God’s hands
http://antiochpat.org/english/news/news.php?newsid=119&PHPSESSID=bb94543ee41fab957b55888687b376d5