(G) The First Divine Liturgy at Holy Ascension - 1999
Metropolitan Pavlos of N & S America spent the Saturday after Pascha of 1999 at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Ascension in Bearsville, NY. It was the first Divine Liturgy ever celebrated there. Holy Ascension became a Greek Orthodox Parish in early 2019. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPhsgSJ7UdI
This program is in both GREEK and ENGLISH. The English section begins at the 6:16 point of the timeline.
A Message to Yianni from Metropolitan Petros
Yianni (John) Tsimpirlis was a spiritual son of Metropolitan Petros of Astoria who reposed in January of 1997. John was born and raised on the same island of Chios, as was Met. Petros. John met Met. Petros in America in 1990. John was a novice at the Cathedral of St. Markella in Astoria for around six months. Eventually he returned to the world and he got married. H now lives with his wife in Chicago, Illinois. This little miracle occurred in 2017, in Chicago, and on eBay.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwkzPQulyYo
On October 25/12, 2015, at the Cathedral of St. Markella, Archimandrite Nectarios Socrates delivered this sermon on the subject of Halloween.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X91D-HnXXc
Archimandrite Pavlos Stratigeas offers a sermon for the the Feast Day of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos. This sermon was given at the Cathedral of St. Markella in Astoria, NY. in 1988. This program is in Greek with ENGLISH subtitles.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZUza5RUxA
A multi-part history of Chios, the holiest island on Earth, drenched in the blood of martyrs. This is a series produced by GOCTV. This is the first of nine in the series.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MasqZeLXoU4
A discussion about the miraculous appearance of the Cross over the skies of Athens on September 13/14, 1925.
This program is in Greek with ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJIQ_oJtQto
In 1998, on the Third Sunday of Great Lent (Veneration of the Holy Cross) His Eminence - Pavlos, the Metropolitan of N & S America ordained Deacon Kleanthis Korkotas to the Holy Priesthood. This program utilizes video footage recorded on a Super VHS camcorder. This program is in GREEK.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJLoPNLAxZk
"To repeat, as it has been repeated many times before, Christian unity is possible only when all those who call themselves Christian embrace common doctrine bearing common definitions. Thus far, there has been only one church that has not changed its beliefs—the Eastern Orthodox Church. She should be the apex of unity. That is not the direction in which the ecumenical movement is moving; therefore, unaware of its ecclesial need, the ecumenical movement has lost its horizon."
—Father Michael
Please go to this link to order Fr. Michael's book:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Horizon-Pursuit-Christian-Unity/dp/1543446272/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516596607&sr=8-1&keywords=azkoul
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5aiSHblhdM
Metropolitan Petros of Astoria (1915-1997) was the founder of St. Markella’s Cathedral in Astoria, New York, and is considered the founder of Traditionalist Greek Orthodox Christianity, and monasticism in America.
In his lifetime, he was a member of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece as an Archimandrite, then fell in with a group of vagante pseudo-Old Calendarists, and was taken in by the Metropolia (forerunner of the Orthodox Church in America [OCA]), was consecrated a bishop by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and became a member of the Synod of Bishops of the Church of the GOC of Greece.
During his forty-seven years in America (thirty-five years as bishop,) he founded and pastored St. Markella’s Cathedral, and oversaw other parishes in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Florida, and Montreal. He remained firmly at the helm of the diocese until his final days. He is therefore of great interest to those concerned with genuine Orthodox Christianity, and to those interested in the building of a Greek Orthodox parish from scratch in an immigrant community, and who have an interest in Greek Old Calendarist relations with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), among other things.
This is PART ONE, "The Early Days of the Struggle - From Chios to the Holy Mountain".
BE SURE to view PART TWO.
Music by Jamie Sieber
To learn more about Met. Petros we recommend that
you read Anastasios Hudson's book: https://www.amazon.com/Metropolitan-Petros-Astoria-Microcosm-Calendar/dp/1500699551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500917620&sr=8-1&keywords=anastasios+hudson