Today I greet you with great love and joy in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ following His glorious Resurrection. On Great and Holy Pascha, we behold the triumph of Christ, as He rose from death to life, from darkness of the tomb into the Light. With the Resurrection of Christ, all Creation is filled with a new Light of life and joy. On this Feast of Feasts, this Holy Day of Holy Days, we all proclaim the only truth that matters, the Truth that Christ is Risen!

Through this Truth, we are liberated from the power of sin and death, to receive God’s promise to live in eternity. We feel the inexpressible joy of being united with real life in Christ. During the beautiful service of the Resurrection, waiting in a darkened church, anticipating the Light, we should be mindful of what we are about to experience and its significance. The Resurrection is a real event. It is happening right now for all of us.

By God’s mercy and strength, we have journeyed through prayer and fasting across the ocean of Holy and Great Lent, finally reaching the splendid feast of Pascha, and we praise the Lord of glory, who descended to the depths of Hades and “achieved the entrance for all to Paradise” through His raising from the dead.

The Resurrection is not the remembrance of an event from the past, but the “good change” of our existence, “another birth, an alternate life, a different kind of living, the transformation of our very being.

The 2025 Metropolitan Orestes Bowling Tournament. & ACRY Friends & Family Weekend will take place May 23, 2025 - May 26, 2025 in Johnstown, PA. It will be hosted by the Johnstown and Windber ACRY Chapters. A great weekend of bowling and family fun is being planned. The host chapters are looking forward to your visit to Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Johnstown and St. Peter & Paul Church in Windber.

MERCER, PA  [Camp Nazareth]  -  Preparations are being made at Camp Nazareth for the start of the 2025 Spring and Summer seasons.   There are many activities and events to choose from for people of all ages within the Diocese and Registration is now open.  Here are details on these upcoming events.  

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- The schedule of His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa for April 2025 has been released by the Diocesan Chancery.