Thanksgiving Greetings
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- Thanksgiving 2025.
It is proper and just to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to thank You, to worship You in every place of Your kingdom, for You are God, ineffable, inconceivable, invisible, incomprehensible, ever existing yet ever the same, You and Your only-begotten Son and Your Holy Spirit. You brought us out of non-existence into being and, when we had fallen, You raised us up again, and left nothing undone to lead us to heaven and to bestow upon us Your future kingdom. For all this we give thanks to You and to Your only-begotten Son and Your Holy Spirit, for all that we know and do not know, the manifest and hidden benefits bestowed upon us.
(Anaphora Prayer - The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom )
His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory, the Diocesan Chancery Staff and the members of the Apostolates and ministries of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese extend their greetings to all Diocesan faithful and friends for a blessed and joyous celebration of Thanksgiving.
We also rejoice that this year, Thanksgiving coincides with the thirteenth Anniversary of the Consecration of Metropolitan Gregory as Bishop.
With gratitude to Almighty God, the clergy and the faithful of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese extend their heartfelt congratulations and best wishes, today - November 27, 2025, to His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa on the thirteenth anniversary of his Consecration and Enthronement as Ruling Diocesan Bishop. Today is also His Eminence's Name's Day, St Gregory Palamas, as celebrated on the Julian Calendar.
On this milestone in His Eminence's ministry in the Vineyard of the Lord, the Diocesan Chancery Staff, the Faculty and Students of Christ the Saviour Seminary, and all the Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese, lift up their voices in prayers of thanksgiving, beseeching Almighty God to Grant Metropolitan Gregory Many More Years of Good Health, Happiness and Salvation as their Father in Christ and Bishop.
Eis Polla Eti Despota! Many Years to You Master! Mnohaja Lita Vladika!