МОЛИТЕСЬ О УКРАИНЕ

Возлюбленные верные!

В эти темные моменты угрожающей разразиться войны, я хотел бы попросить вас, чтобы вы в своих молитвах поминали народ Украины и особенно нашего отца Андрея Трачука, его семью и паству.

Давайте ежедневно возносить нашему Спасителю такую молитву за них, прося, чтобы Он покрыл эту страдающую землю и людей от этой ужасной кровавой беды.

Во Христе

+ Григорий, митрополит

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МОЛИТВА О МИРЕ В УКРАИНЕ

О, Всемогущий Боже, Отче милости и Боже всякаго утешения, прииди на помощь людем Твоим и избави их от належащия беды сия. Веруем, Господи, яко вся испытания житейская во Твоем промышлении суть, вся же поспешествуют во благое любящим Тя. Отыми от них всякий страх. Помози им встретити и претерпети испытание сие с верою, мужеством и мудростию. Даруй, да скорбь сия приблизит их к Тебе. Ты бо еси твердыня и прибежище, утешение наше и надеяние, наслаждение наше и отрада, и благословляем всегда Святое Имя Твое. Молитвами Богородицы и всех святых. Аминь.

Sermon on the Feast of Saint Haralampos of Magnesia

~What does it mean to be a Martyr?~

Saint Haralampos Orthodox Church, Orlando, Florida, February 10/23, 2022

Sermon on the Sunday of the Last Judgment

~What are the commandments that we will be judged by at the Second Coming of our Saviour, and why those in particular?~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, February 14/27, 2022

Psalter Group Sign Up

This year, with the blessing of Metropolitan Gregory, we are organizing a Psalter Group at Saint Mark’s that is open to all HOCNA.

Psalter Group is a wonderful, simple way to add extra prayer to our day and for us to pray together even though we may be far apart.
The goal of the Psalter Group is to pray the entire psalter every day of Great Lent - AS A GROUP.

Each Psalter Group member will be assigned a starting Kathisma number* and read at the time and in the place of your choosing, at your convenience.
Many people simply incorporate their daily Kathisma reading into their regular prayer routine.

As an example:
Maria S is assigned to start with Kathisma 10 on March 7th.
She will then read Kathisma 11 on March 8, Kathisma 12 on March 9 and so on until she reaches Kathisma 20 after which she will loop back to Kathisma 1 and continue on.

In this way, our Psalter Group will read the entire psalter once every day.
And at the end of Great Lent, we will all individually have read the entire psalter twice.

Please sign up by THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd - just reply to this post with your name!

Assignments will be posted here on Telegram Friday, March 4th.

*The Psalter is broken down into 20 kathismata - groups of psalms that can be read at one sitting (kathisma/kathisei)

You can purchase a pocket sized psalter from HTM or online at https://www.bostonmonks.com/product_info.php/products_id/888

An online psalter is available at
http://synaxis.info/psalter/5_english/c_psalms/kjvsept.pdf

Beloved Christians,

As the horrific invasion of Ukraine continues, so does the suffering of the people there.

I am in touch with our Father Andrii in Shipitivka as well as with the faithful in Lyubashobka. Thanks be to God, the war has not touched the parts of Ukraine where they are, at least for now. But the difficult conditions of a country that is under a bloody siege affects everyone there.

That is why I would like to call for a general collection of funds for the needs of our families in Ukraine. If you can help with any amount of alms, please do so. You can send a check written out to “HOMB” and earmarked “Ukraine” to this address:

Metropolitan Gregory
Holy Transfiguration Monastery
278 Warren Street
Brookline, MA 02445

If you would like to use PayPal or any other electronic form or payment, please let me know.

May God bless you for your generosity.

In Christ,

+ Gregory, met.

In Memory of Father John, monk (Nicholas Dohie)

UPDATE

Here are the electronic payment accounts of the Metropolis:

Venmo: The Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Boston, Inc

Zelle: Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Boston, reference contact mariamarketshomes@gmail.com

PayPal: hombtreasurer@gmail.com

Hi Everyone!

For Psalter Group assignments and updates, please follow the Telegram Orthodox Education Page here

https://t.me/orthodoxeducationprogram

FORGIVENESS SUNDAY

Beloved Christians,

We are standing at the gates of the Holy and Great Fast, which is the time of renewed spiritual struggles. Let us use this holy season to remember those among our brothers and sisters who are in extreme danger and suffering.

To this end, I have compiled a list of names of our faithful in Ukraine, as well as of the pious people there who are very close to us, so that we may commemorate them.

Members of our Church:

Saint Cyril and Methodius Parish in Shepetivka: Presbyter Andrii with his children, Tamara, Maxim, Pavel, Irina, Nadezhda, Andrii;

Holy Royal Martyrs Parish in Lyubashivka: Sergey, Galina, their children Evgenii, Yulia, Maxim, Anna, Alexandra and Sophia; Lyudmila, Tatiana, Peter, Roman, Vladimir, Pavel, Alexander; Catherine.

Pious Christians close to our Church:

Elizaveta; Evtratios; Elizaveta, George, Kira & Sophia

Konstantine and those with him; Job and those with him; Savvatii and those with him.

It is also necessary that we pray for our people in Russia, who, no doubt, will go through very hard times too:

Our Bishop Spyridon and his whole Diocese
Presbyter Sergey, Deacon Dionisy with families and flock in Saint Petersburg
Presbyter Vyacheslav, family and flock in Kursk
Presbyter Dimitry, family and flock in Anapa

Our prayers should not stop there but should also extend to all the victims of this terrible war - the fallen, the wounded, the widows, the orphans, the homeless and the refugees.

May our Saviour hear our prayers and shine His merciful countenance on the suffering people. Amen.

Using this opportunity, I also would like to ask for your forgiveness. May God forgive us all.

With love in Christ,

+ Gregory, Metropolitan of Boston

Sermon on Forgiveness Sunday

Saint Mark of Ephesus Cathedral, Boston

February 21/March 6, 2022

Sermon on the Friday of the the First Week of the Great Fast, the Service of the Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos

Holy Nativity Convent, Boston

February 26/March 11, 2022

Sermon on Sunday of Orthodoxy

~That to be an Orthodox Christian means to be a Nathanael, “an Israelite indeed, with whom there is no guile”~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral, Boston

February 28/March 13, 2022

Sermon on the Vespers of Sunday of Orthodoxy

~On the heresy of Phyletism and about its ugly offspring - the error of Ethnic Messianism~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston.

February 28/March 13, 2022