Press Releases - 2004

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Ektenia for the Environment 2004

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

PRIEST: Furthermore, we pray to You, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, Whose grace is everywhere within and without all of Creation, Who determined each creature in the counsels of Your Holy Will before time began, Who created all things by the Son in the Holy Spirit, Who made all things exist in each other, holding together in the power of Christ : look down with mercy upon Your handiwork in the world that You love. Read more...

Archpastoral Letter for Pentecost 2004

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Our days of feasting and celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ have come to their forty-day closure, when we take leave of the Feast and behold Christ ascended in glory. But ten days later, on the Fiftieth day, the Day of Pentecost, we receive the fullness of the Promise that was sounded on the Eve of the First Day of Eternity. Read more...

Archpastoral Letter for Pascha 2004

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Let us arise and enter into the Resurrection Joy of our Lord! The Banquet Chamber is prepared! Even as the Lord commanded His Disciples to prepare the Upper Room for His Mystical Supper (St. Mark 14:12-16), so He has commanded us to celebrate this Queen of Feasts with great rejoicing. For He greets each one of us as He greeted the Holy Women coming to His empty- Tomb: "Rejoice!" Read more...

Archpastoral Letter on Great Lent 2004

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Now we arise! Now we commence the season of the Great and Holy Fast, a time of repentance and sanctification, a time of testing and purification. The days and weeks that have come before, the period that the Church calls "Triodion", have prepared us well for our Lenten Pilgrimage. For we have heard what I believe to be the greatest of all the parables of our Lord, the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Read more...

Memory Eternal: Very Rev. Protopresbyter Andrew Hutnyan

Sunday, February 22, 2004

MANVILLE, NJ. At 3:00 am (EST) today, the Very Rev. Protopresbyter Andrew Hutnyan, fell-asleep-in-the-Lord after a lengthy illness. Father Andrew, a priest of some 45 years of our Diocese, Pastor Of Holy Ghost Church, Manville, NJ and past Diocesan Supervisor of Church Schools, will lie in state in Holy Ghost Church in Manville, On Wednesday afternoon (Feb 25). Funeral Services will take place on Wed Feb 25 at 7:00 pm and Thursday Feb 26, 2004 at 10:00 am. Read more...

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