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April 2025 Newsletter Posted
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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 January/February 2025 Newsletter issue.
Upcoming Events (after Divine Liturgy):
Saturday/Sunday June 14/15: Rummage Sale
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.
Two New Documentary Films about Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Friday, May 2 through Thursday, May 8, 2025
Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema - 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Show Times 1pm, 4pm, and 7pm
Click here for details!
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)
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".
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.
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 !!!
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
Нажимайте здесь чтобы прослушать.
(Daily Gospel reading with Commentary - Sorry, only in Russian)
Archpriest Stefan Blessing the Main Cupola
December 28, 2021
ARCHPRIEST SERGE KOTAR
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ANDREI ROUDENKO
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