Special Announcements & Events
Orthodoxy on Tap Schedule for Fall 2013
January 01, 1970
Join us for a "tall glass of truth" at the Fall 2013 installment of Orthodoxy on Tap, an outreach ministry for young adults in the Boston area. Read more »
The Bread of Life Liturgy Retreat for Church School Students and Families
January 01, 1970
Monday, November 11, 2013 9:30 am – 3:00 pm. Make Prosphora (Holy Bread) for the Church, Coliva (wheat & honey) and Sweetbread. Learn how bread is used in different Orthodox traditions Celebrate the Artoklasia (Service of Five Breads) and Memorial Service. Read more »
Paraklesis Cancelled - November 27, 2013
January 01, 1970
Tonight's scheduled Paraklesis service has been cancelled. We apologize for the last minute schedule change and pray that you have a blessed and healthy Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Read more »
Pray for the Nuns of Ma'aloula
January 01, 1970
We are informed that the Monastery of St. Thekla in Ma'aloula, Syria, was invaded on Monday, December 2 and that twelve nuns were abducted. Please pray for their safety. Read more »
Choral Concert: Orthodox Christmas Around the World
January 01, 1970
On Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 4pm, join us for a multi-lingual concert featuring traditional Orthodox hymns and carols sung or chanted in English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian & Slavonic. Read more »
9th Annual 2014 Chinese New Year Missions Breakfast
January 01, 1970
At St Mary’s we will celebrate the Chinese New Year on Sunday February 9 with a Chinese Missions potluck breakfast, after the Divine Liturgy, to benefit the Chinese Translation Project via the Orthodox Fellowship of All Saints of China. Read more »
The world's most ancient Christian communities are being destroyed — and no one cares
January 01, 1970
Christians in the Middle East have been the victims of pogroms and persecution. Where's the outrage in the West? Christians are murdered in mob violence or by militant groups. Their churches are bombed, their shops destroyed, and their homes looted. Laws are passed making them second-class citizens, and the majority of them eventually leave. Read more »
Divine Liturgy with the Patriarch of Antioch, John X and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill
January 01, 1970
January 26, 2014, during the 31st Sunday after Pentecost, on the Epiphany, His Beatitude Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, John X and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Liturgy in the Cathedral opened the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Read more »
If you Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: How Christ Transcends Good & Bad. The Annual Father John Von Holzhausen Lecture
January 01, 1970
Speaker Dr. Jan N. H. Perkins considers how false notions of good and evil are formed, and how relative human notions of good and evil often have very little to do with the GOOD of God, or with the Evil of Diabolos — the principle of fragmentation, dissociation, and division. Read more »
Memory Eternal! His Eminence Metropolitan Philip
January 01, 1970
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, with great sadness, announces the passing unto life eternal of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America. May his memory be eternal! Details are forthcoming. Read more »