JOHNSTOWN, PA  [Diocesan Chancery] --Our Diocesan Faithful are asked and encouraged to volunteer their time and talents during Camp Nazareth’s Volunteer Week which will take place Tuesday, 5/13 – Friday, 5/23.  Camp has been blessed over the years to have many volunteers, including parishes, groups of parishes, men’s groups, societies, and individuals and their families, who have offered their time and talents to help get the Camp ready for each summer season as well as complete a lot of fixer-uppers around the Camp. 

JOHNSTOWN, PA [Diocesan Chancery] -- The sixth annual Sts. Joachim and Anna Senior Retreat which was originally scheduled to take place at Camp Nazareth Retreat and Conference Center in Mercer, PA from May 2-4, 2025, has been rescheduled for June 6-8,  2025.  The Retreat will feature keynote addresses by Very Rev. Nicholas Ferencz. 

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

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.