9-Day Panihida Saturday, May 24, at 5:30pm for Newly-Reposed Anna Fedorov (wife of our Starosta).
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, May 31, 2025 - Parish Russian School AKT
Our Parish Russian School wishes to announce that the End-of-the-School year event, our traditional AKT, is happening on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 11:00am in the Church Hall.
All are welcome! Come to enjoy and support our students! You will be entertained to hear them sing sacred and folk songs, and perform in short plays on the theme of Ivan Krylov’s fables. Awards of Merit and a light buffet lunch will follow.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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 !!!
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.)
Please support 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
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.
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.
Genuine Repentance & Confession heals and makes the immortal soul holy.
This is the correct way to prepare for Holy Communion.
Click here for "A Guide to Confession"
Евангелие дня 2025 с толкованием. Чтимые святые
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(Daily Gospel reading with Commentary - Sorry, only in Russian)
Ordination of
Father Deacon Alexei Baranoff
Annunciation Feast Day
April 7, 2022
ARCHPRIEST SERGE KOTAR
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ANDREI ROUDENKO
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