2022 Photo Gallery & Archives

Feast Day of the Holy, Glorious, All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles Peter & Paul

July 12th

Happy Namesday to our Protodeacon Paul! Many years!

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2021 Photo Gallery & Archives

Feast Day of Holy Hierarch John of Shanghai & San Francisco

July 2nd

Today Protodeacon Joseph Jarostchuk served at the cathedral. We congratulated him with his upcoming 80th birthday, presenting him with an icon of St. Alexander Nevsky, and congratulated his grandson, our longtime altar server Ioann, on his namesday. As a special blessing, all present had St. John’s skufia placed on their heads when they kissed the Holy Cross.

Visit by Fr. Daniel Franzen & Family

June 26th

Today for the first time Priest Daniel Franzen served in our cathedral. His family converted to Orthodoxy 10 years ago, and he just finished our Holy Trinity Seminary with a masters in Theology. In September he will teach Dogmatic Theology in Jordanville. May God help him.

Holy Pentecost. Troitsa. The Descent of the Holy Spirit

June 12th

Holy Apostle Simon the Zealot
40th Anniversary of Fr. Serge’s Ordination to the Diaconate

May 23rd

On Monday, May 23, the feast of the Holy Apostle Simon the Zealot, Fr. Serge marked the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the diaconate by the ever-memorable First Hierarch of ROCOR, Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky; +1985). Concelebrating with him at Divine Liturgy were Archpriests Mark Shinn (rector of St. Andrew Naval Cathedral in Philadelphia, PA), Chad Williams (rector of St. Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Richmond, ME), Boris Henderson (rector of All Saints of Russia Church in Denver, CO), and Boris Slootsky (parish cleric), Abbot Tikhon (Gayfudinov; abbot of Holy Protection Skete in Buena, NJ), and Priest Anthony Williams and Protodeacon Paul Drozdowski (parish clerics). Addressing the parish after Liturgy, Fr. Serge expressed his overwhelming gratitude to the Lord for sending him a faithful companion in life in his Matushka Lubov, “who throughout the years has always been at my side serving the Lord and the parishioners.” He also noted that his brother, Protodeacon Nicholas of blessed memory, was ordained on this same date in 1998 and expressed his thanks to Abbess Elizabeth from the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane, who sent as a gift a Jerusalem Cross blessed on the Tomb of Christ.