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33rd Sunday after Pentecost

 


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BISHOP ATHANASIUS ON LITURGY

Holy Liturgy DVDAbstract: The Divine Liturgy is at the center of Orthodox Christian life. It is through the Eucharist that the faithful are united with Christ and therefore with one another.
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“United, We Celebrate the All-Holy Spirit”
On the Unity of the Church – Bishop Atanasije Yevtich
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON CONFESSION
- Alexander Schmemann
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Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovic

Western American Diocese joyously commemorated a spiritually inspiring and historically unique event: the return of Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovic (1863-1940) to America


                              

upcoming events
» The Meeting of the Lord Serbian Orthodox Monastery invites you to an Hierarchical Dinve LIturgy and Monastry Slava, Sunday, Feburary 14, 2010 10am
Picnic and Music!
» Sunday of Orthodoxy - Pan-Orthodox Celebration Sunday, February 21, 2010, Divine Liturgy 10am at Saint Steven's Cathedral, Alhambra, CA
» Annual Lenten Clergy Retreat, March 2-3, 2010
» Diocesan KSS Women's Retreat, Saint Sava Mission, Jackson, CA, March 19-20, 2010
» 100th Anniversary of Sv. Vasilije of Ostrog,
Angels Camp, California - May 1, 2010
» Diocesan Summer Camp, St. Sava Mission
Jackson, CA - July 11- July 31, 2010
(Three one week sessions)
» Clergy Luncheon & Seminar, Thursday, Sepetember 3, 2010 - Jackson, CA
» Diocesan Days 2010, Jackson, California
September 3-5, 2010
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100th Anniversary of St. Sava Church in Los Angeles/San Gabriel, October 2nd & 3rd, 2010

» Cathedral SLAVA - Saint Steven-Simon, the Monk, Alhambra, California - October 7, 2010
recent events


» Annual Diocesan Assembly Photo Gallery
» Divine Liturgy in Denver, CO
» Divine Liturgy and Slava in Portland, OR
Circle of Serbian Sisters - Western American Diocese

 

"Christian in the Church"
by Fr. George Florovsky

...The church is first and main reality of Christian existence and living... Christianity is not only some knowledge that can be "thought" or "received" from outside, neither a system of "commandments" that should be fulfilled. Christianity is not a "model of thinking", neither, only "a model of action," It is not enough to "know" and "to act", one has to become and to be a Christian... It is far too little "to have the Christian attitudes" and convictions, or even the "Christian perspective of the world." It is not enough "to behave like a Christian." We have TO BE Christians. The Christianity is Life, new Life eternal. And for that life we have to be born again. Becoming a Christian begins precisely by the act of new birth, "by the water and Spirit" in baptismal bath. Baptism is the birth by Holy Spirit and for Christ the Savior, the birth in Christ, the birth in Church, for by one spirit we are all baptized into one body
(1 Cor.12,13)

 
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