Sts. Peter and Paul Fast

Monday, June 16, 2025 through Friday, July 11, 2025

Our Church Feastday is Sunday, June 22, ALL SAINTS OF RUSSIA

Saturday, June 21 Vigil Services at 6pm

Sunday, June 22 greeting of Archbishop Kyrill at 9am, vesting, and Divine Liturgy

Festive Lunch to follow — ALL ARE WELCOME

ROCOR Synod Building in New York City.

Financial Breakdown. Click on picture to expand detail.

Update: June 2025 - URGENT - PLEASE HELP!!!

As of May 2025, only $900,000 has been raised of the $15,000,000 needed to fully repair the building. Click here to see the latest video; also, click on the Financial Breakdown image above to see the project list.

Your help is urgently needed! Please donate generously during this Sts. Peter and Paul Fast! Also see last year's message from our Rector, Archpriest Stefan Pavlenko.

To Donate, click here.

Message from Archpriest Stefan Pavlenko, Rector! - August 30, 2024

Dear Friends and Members of our Parish and supporters of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia,

We come to you today with a heartfelt appeal for your support. The Synod of Bishops building in New York City, our beloved headquarters, is in need of urgent repairs and restoration. This historic building holds immense cultural and spiritual significance (it is the home of the Holy Kursk Icon) for our community, and we must act now to preserve it for future generations.

We ask that you consider making a donation, however big or small, to help undertake this important work. Your generosity will not only help protect our heritage but also ensure that this sacred space continues to serve as a beacon of hope and faith for years to come.

Thank you for your support and God Bless you!

Click here to read Appeal by Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York. Donation button is at bottom of that page.

Click here to see 27-minute video "Telling the Truth" about the Synod of ROCOR building in New York (in English and Russian)

Celebration of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Day, Saturday July 5th, 2025

Schedule:

Thursday, July 3rd at 7:00 PM -- Translation of the honorable relics and Akathist Hymn to Saint John
Friday, July 4th at 6:00 PM -- The Greeting of His Eminence Kyrill Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America and All-night Vigil
Saturday, July 5th at 9:00 AM -- The Greeting of the Bishop and Divine Liturgy. A festal meal provided by the local Sisterhood will follow.

Two interesting videos about Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco are available at the following two links:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h12dV3aWD4

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3vVg7p1WXQ

Address:
Holy Virgin Cathedral
6210 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94121

Urgent Need: Please Help the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Monastery in Mexico City

Send a donation check to:

The Fund for Assistance to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)

P.O. Box 272

Glen Cove, NY, 11542

Include a note that the donation is for the Holy Trinity Monastery in Mexico City

View Archimandrite Nektariy's talk about the Mexico Monastery by clicking here

(From our Livestream on Sunday, July 2, 2023 at the 2:00:45 time mark.)

Upcoming Services (see Schedule of Services Tab for details)

Priest Dimitri Jakimowicz of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Stratford, Connecticut, emails weekly church service texts in both Russian and English. Contact him at frdimitrij@gmail.com to request being added to his distribution list.

Saturday, June 21 6:00pm Vigil Service

Sunday, June 22 9:00am Liturgy - All Saints of Russia - Our Parish Feast Day/ Festive Lunch

Saturday, June 28 6:00pm Vigil Service

Sunday, June 29 9:00am Liturgy

Saint Herman's West 2025 Youth Conference (ROCOR)

St. George Russian Orthodox Church in West Jordan, Utah

Thursday, August 7 through Monday, August 11, 2025

Conference theme: "Here I am, Lord. Send me" (Isaiah 6:8)

St. Herman’s West 2025 Conference will be held this year at St. George Russian Orthodox Church in West Jordan, Utah. This year, the conference will be held in the summer to avoid some of the weather and scheduling issues that sometimes happen in December. So this year you’ll need sunscreen. Registration is $250 before July 15. Space is limited!

The conference is for youth of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, ages 15-21.

Arrival airport is Salt Lake City International Airport. The conference starts at 5:00 pm on August 7 (earliest airport pickups that day will be at 1 pm) with departure in the morning on August 11.

To Register, click HERE: https://wadyouth.wordpress.com/

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTER SOON!

The Church of All Russian Saints in Burlingame, California will sponsor our eligible Burlingame parish youth by reimbursing their registration fee. Click here to read details and requirements for eligibility.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Fort Ross State Historic Park, 19005 Coast Highway, Jenner, CA 95450

His Eminence Kyrill, Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America (ROCOR), and His Eminence Benjamin, Archbishop of San Francisco and the West (OCA), invite Orthodox Christians, family, and friends to the Centennial Anniversary of Pilgrimage to Fort Ross on Saturday, October 4, 2025. Since 1925, Orthodox clergy and faithful have conducted services annually at the Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Chapel, making this the longest continuous place of pilgrimage in the lower forty-eight! We will celebrate the Divine Liturgy and go in procession to the historic cemetery where the names of our ancestors in the faith buried there will be commemorated. The celebration will conclude with a festive luncheon on the ocean bluffs. Pilgrims are encouraged to sign up for the luncheon. Please join us in this holy and festive day!

The highlight of our pilgrimage will be the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in the very place where the first divine mysteries were served in the lower forty-eight and where the faithful have come in pilgrimage annually for 100 years. His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America and His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia will lead hierarchs, clergy, and devoted faithful in prayer. This historic Divine Liturgy and pilgrimage is hosted by the Western American Diocese of ROCOR and the Diocese of the West of the OCA.

Participate in this beautiful, celebratory moment to thank God for the gift of Holy Orthodoxy in our land and to prayerfully invoke the Lord's bounties on the next 100 years, if that is His will for us! The Divine Liturgy will begin at 10am. For the most up-to-date information about this pilgrimage, the festive meal, or for the "Fort Ross- Then and Now" conference on Friday,October 3rd, 2024, please see the complete schedule.

Click here for more information.

New Parishioners in 2025

At our Parish Council meetings, new membership (parishioner) applications were considered and approved.

We offer our heartfelt congratulations to our new parishioners!

Ekaterina Kotlerova

April 2025 Newsletter Posted

Click on Newsletter Tab

In Addition:

* Learn about fellow parishioners by checking "Index to Biographies".

* Refresh your memory by checking "Index to Theological Questions".

* Find past issues of the Newsletter by checking "Newsletter Archives".

Slideshow is images from the April 2025 Newsletter issue.

An Excellent New Film about

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco

by famous Arcady Mamontov Studio (only in Russian).

To watch, click here (1 hour and 8 minutes long)

Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God

visited our Burlingame Church

on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 5:00pm for an Akathist

and was present for the Vigil Service.

Click the Livestream Tab to see the recording of the Akathist!

Click here to read the history of the Icon, and to see a wonderful 17-minute film of its Pilgrimage to Kursk, Russia in 2017.

An Urgent Appeal for Aid to the ROCOR Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem.

Срочное обращение о помощи Духовной Миссии РПЦЗ в Иерусалиме.

With Archpriest Stefan's blessing, please consider supporting the monasteries at this time of military conflict.

Пожалуйста, рассмотрите возможность поддержки монастырей в это время военного конфликта.

Click here for details.

2024: 30th Anniversary Year of the Canonization of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco!

Please Support and Donate to the St. John Benevolent Fund

The Fund currently supports the following Causes:

* Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine - Shelters for elderly and disabled

* Bethany School for Girls in Palestine

* Education for Orphans and Destitute Children in Africa

To donate, click here

To see an hour and 24 minute video of Life of St. John (in Russian only), click here

www.stjohnbenevolentfund.org

Did You Know .............?

* You can listen and watch all of the professionaly filmed Burlingame Church Choir Concerts from 2008 through 2022 by clicking on the Choir Tab, and then clicking on "Video Materials", and then "Choir Concerts".

* You can interactively explore all of our Burlingame Church inside and outside by scrolling down and choosing the 360 image in the left column. Use your mouse to move left and right, up and down, and click on the circles to explore. Neat?

* To see Upcoming Events in our Burlingame Parish, please click on the Sisterhood Tab, then click on "Sisterhood Schedule/Upcoming Events".

* Find answers to many of your theological questions by clicking on Newsletter Tab, and then clicking on "Index to Theological Questions".

* You can find the Burlingame Church By-Laws by clicking on the About Us Tab, and then click on "Parish By-Laws".

Useful ROCOR Websites for Current News:

Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco: http://sfsobor.com/

Western American Diocese (WAD): https://wadiocese.org/

Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: https://www.synod.com/synod/indexeng.htm

Our Kiots and Choir Loft Crosses have been gilded with 24K Gold Leaf!

Father Stefan's 50th Anniversary of his Ordination - October 1, 2023

His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, celebrated the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. Concelebrating with the Metropolitan were His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, His Grace Bishop Theodosius of Seattle and His Grace Bishop James of Sonora, Archimandrite Roman (Krassovsky), Chief of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, Archpriests Stefan Pavlenko, Andrei Sommer, Alexei Kotar, Peter Perekrestov, and Hieromonk Peter Karakozoff.

At the end of the service, Metropolitan Nicholas, addressing the parish with a primatial sermon, congratulated Father Stefan on the 50th anniversary of his pastoral ministry, handing him a Synodal decree awarding him the right to serve Divine Liturgy with the Royal Doors open until the exclamation "Holy to the Holies" and a blessed letter, whose content you can read here.

Along with Father Stefan, Matushka Tatiana also celebrated 50 years since becoming a Matushka and both were awarded a Synodal Gramota.

Many Years to Father Stefan and Matushka Tatiana !!!

Message from Archpriest Stefan Pavlenko, Rector

Bring your children to church, learn the services for yourself, listen and pray along with the prayers ---- CARE TO GROW IN YOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FAITH! English language translations of all services are available---take advantage of the hard work put in by others for your salvation.

Father Dimitri Jakimowicz emails weekly translations of upcoming services. You can download the translation into your smartphone and follow the service in English while standing in Church. Contact Father Dimitri at frdimitrij@gmail.com and ask to be placed on his mailing list. Father Dimitri Jakimowicz sends out weekly church service texts in both Russian and English.

For Liturgical Texts in English and Slavonic from Holy Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church in Austin, Texas click here. https://orthodoxaustin.org/liturgical-texts/

We are overcome with grief over the tragic events in Ukraine, for many of us the land of our forefathers, and for some the land where our relatives live today. We pray to the All-Merciful Lord, and His Most-Holy Mother for speedy secession of all hostilities, and for long-lasting peace.

Prayer to the Lord:

O Lord, Lover of mankind, King of the ages and Giver of good things: having destroyed the divisions of enmity and granted peace unto the human race, grant even now peace unto Thy servants, planting within them the fear of Thee and establishing them in love for one another. Quench all strife, and remove all dissensions and temptations; for Thou art our peace and to Thee do we offer up glory, to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages, Amen.

Владыко Человѣколюбче, Царю вѣковъ и Подателю благихъ, разрушившiй вражды средостѣнiя и мир подавшiй роду человѣческому, даруй и нынѣ миръ рабомъ Твоимъ, вкорени нихъ страхъ Твой и другъ къ другу любовь утверди: угаси всяку распрю, отыми вся разногласiя и соблазны. Яко Ты еси миръ нашъ и Тебе славу возсылаемъ, Отцу и Сыну и Святому Духу, нынѣ и присно и во вѣки вѣковъ. Аминь.

Click here to print the prayers.

Prayer to the Mother of God:

O much sorrowing Mother of God, more highly exalted than all other of the daughters of the earth, according to thy purity and the multitude of thy suffering endured by thee on earth: Hearken to our sighs and soften the hearts of evil men, and protect us under the shelter of thy mercy. For we know no other refuge and ardent intercessor apart from thee, but as thou hast great boldness before the One Who was born of thee, help and save us by thy prayers, that without offense we may attain the Heavenly Kingdom where, with all the saints, we will sing the thrice-holy hymn to One God Almighty in the Trinity, always now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

О, многострадальная Мати Божiя, Превысшая всѣхъ дщерей земли, по чистотѣ Своей и по множеству страданiй, Тобою на земли перенесенныхъ, прiими многоболезненныя воздыханiя наша и сохрани насъ подъ кровомъ Твоея милости. Инаго бо прибѣжища теплаго предстательста развѣ Тебѣ не вѣмы, но яко дерзновенiе имущая къ Иже изъ Тебѣ рожденному, помози и спаси ны молитвами Своими, да непреткновенно достигнемъ Царствiя Небеснаго, идеже со всѣми святыми будемъ воспѣвати въ Троицѣ единому Богу нынѣ и присно и во вѣки вѣков. Аминь.