ELIZABETH, NJ - Junior ACRY Members! Camp Nazareth is a place we all like to be in the summer!! Wouldn't it be nice if you could spend more than 1 week there without having to beg Mom or Dad to let you go?? Well, now here's your chance!! Although Spring is just beginning it's not too early to start planning for those hot summer days!!! Now here's your chance to get a reward for being a member of the National Jr. ACRY. You could win a free week at Camp Nazareth!!! It's very easy too!! All you have to do is enter the National Jr. ACRY Camp Essay Contest. Your essay will be judged by the members of the National Jr. ACRY Board. Originality and Creativity are your best chances of winning!!! Read more...

I greet you in the Meekness of the Bridegroom Christ, Who calls us, in the depth of our hearts, to follow Him during this Great Fast, and to not betray Him. In this annual season, we closely follow the events of the Passion of Our Lord, and we are frequently met by the disturbing picture of Judas the Betrayer. We are told, in the Gospel of St. Matthew (26.15), that he received thirty pieces of silver - about a half year's wages, almost $15,000 in today's funds - as payment for delivering his Lord into the hands of the enemy. When we hear this, we quickly protest, and we say "We would have done much better." Read more...

DANBURY, CT - With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, The New England Deanery is planning a Youth Pilgrimage to Slovakia to visit the St. Nicholas Orphanage. The trip is scheduled from Wednesday July 6, to Saturday, July 16th. The cost per person is $1,899.00. Led by Very Rev. Fr. Luke Mihaly and Fr. Peter Benyo, this trip is to primarily provide an opportunity for our Youth to put their faith into practice by spending time with the orphans of St. Nicholas Orphanage. Secondarily, this trip hopes to provide a brief taste of the spiritual homeland of our diocese. Read more...

In this season of the Nativity of Our Lord, we should think carefully about the fact that the Son of God was once a baby, a little child. This one fact is the most important determination of our opposition to abortion. He was an unborn Child, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary on the Day of the Annunciation. From the moment of that mysterious conception, that unborn Child was never less than a Person, never less than fully God and fully Man. When He was born, He did not become a Person at that point, because He already was.In the entirely of His mission in the Incarnation, the Son of God sanctified, and gave supreme legitimacy, to the whole range of human life. His work, proceeding out of the eternal Counsels of God the Father, and empowered by the dynamism of God the Spirit, renewed human nature. He entered humanity, and became the head of humanity, thus establishing a single, united human nature. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA - In the tradition of the Great Pilgrimages in Eastern Europe and with the Blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas, our Diocesan Youth and all area Orthodox Youth are encouraged to join Him at Saint Basil's Academy for the celebration of Vespers and the Divine Liturgy. Read more...