Fr. John Whiteford

On this page you can see photo's of the baptism of the Bryant family , which took place this past weekend.

There is an interview that Der Spiegel has just posted with Alexander Solzhenitsyn that gives a lot of insight into how this former Soviet d...

Pascha at St. Jonah's 2006 Bishop Peter's Visit, October 29th, 2006 Icon Exhibit 2007 Pascha at St. Jonah's 2007

Part 11: Russia's Golgotha Part 12: Not quite All-night Vigil Part 13: Te Deum Part 14: Farewell Moscow

More installments from Elizabeth Ledkovsky . All of the following detail the events of May 17th: Part 7: Warming up Part 8: Peace be unto th...

From Orthodox.cn , slightly modified. Protopresbyter Elias ( Wén Zǐzhèng in Chinese) was a priest under the Archbishop of Shanghai, St John...

Here are some additional photos that have been e-mailed to me: Here is a photo of me greeting a priest at the St. Sergius Trinity-Lavra, whe...

Elizabeth Ledkovsky has started a blog to post her reflections on the trip. So far, you can read part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here , ...

St. Alfred the Great of England Some English saints may be included in Russian church calendar London, June 6, Interfax - The need to includ...

Day 7, Sunday, May 20th. The Kremlin We headed out early again to the Kremlin for the final service of our vist at the Uspensky (Dor...

An icon of the Martyrs of Butovo Day 6, Saturday, May 19th. We left the hotel early again, I think it was about 7:30 a.m., and again w...

Day 5, Friday, May 18th. On this day we headed outside of Moscow for the Trinity St. Sergius Lavra , which is in the town of Sergiyev Posa...

Christ the Savior Cathedral Day 4, Thursday, May 17 th . This was of course the big day that we were here for. It was the feast of ...

Before I forget the details of my trip to Russia, I had best start making some notes, and so here is part 1. Day 1, Monday, May 14th. I ...

Russia Embraces Exiled Church to Heal Soviet Past. A branch of the Russian Orthodox church whose members fled over 80 years ago to escape Bo...

A many-day procession with the cross from Vladivostok to Moscow to mark the reunification of the Russian Church Moscow, May 10, Interfax - E...

Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow... where I will be, God willing on May 17th. You can read this article , to see the schedule for the tri...

One blog that I check just about every day is Fr. Joseph Huneycutt's. I don't post links to every good post of his, because it woul...

I've posted about this hymn previously here. I just found a link to an MP3 file of a very nice version of it here .

In less than a month, God willing, I will be in this Church to witness the reconciliation of the Russian Church inside Russia with the Russi...