The Antiochian Diocese of Los Angeles and the West

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Last modified: 05/09/2008 07:01 AM

Diocesan Office

Clergy Assignments

The Reverend Michael Wilstrom is accepted into the Diocese and attached to St. George Church in Phoenix, Arizona, effective May 1, 2008.

The Very Reverend Michael Molloy is transferred and attached to St. Michael Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, effective May 1, 2008.

Upcoming Ordinations and Elevations

Subdeacon Rico Monge to the Holy Diaconate on Sunday, July 6, 2008, at the Diocesan Parish Life Conference in Los Angeles, California.

Fasting Calendar

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ServiceTexts

(Updated through

June 28-29)

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!

Χριστός Άνέστη! Άληθώς Άνέστη!

Blessed Name's Day!

The clergy and the faithful of the Holy Diocese of Los Angeles and the West, extend their prayers and love to our Father in Christ, His Grace, Bishop JOSEPH on the occasion of his Holy Name's Day (St. Joseph of Arimathea, Second Sunday after Pascha; May 11). May God grant him many years as our Father and Chief Shepherd.

Greetings may be sent to Sayidna through the Chancery Section of the Website.

Commemoration of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, Pious Joseph of Arimathea & Righteous Nicodemus
(May 11)

Verily, the angel came to the tomb and said to the ointment-bearing women, the ointment is meet for the dead, but Christ is shown to be remote from corruption. But cry ye, The Lord is risen, granting the world the Great Mercy. (Apolytikion in Tone 2)

Friday, May 9, 2008

Saints of the Day

Prophet Isaiah; Martyr Christopher of Lycia; Venerable-martyr Nicholas; translation to Bari of the relics of Nicholas the wonderworker, archbishop of Myra in Lycia.

Read more about the lives of the Saints

Thought for the Day

“'To know Him and the power of His Resurrection' (Phil 3:10) consists in this movement by which Christ descends into our very depths to raise us up into the light of Life. This is the movement of baptism, descent and rising up (Rom 6:3-4), with all the spiritual realism that the power of the Spirit will realize within us day after day in our personal lives." -– His Beatitude, Patriarch IGNATIUS IV

Current Events

His Grace, Bishop JOSEPH and His Grace, Bishop BENJAMIN Concelebrate Bright Wednesday at St. Nicholas Cathedral
April 30, 2007
Los Angeles, California

His Grace, Bishop JOSEPH's Episcopal Visits in the Northern California Deanery During Holy Week
April 21-27, 2008

Announcements of Diocesan and Deanery Events

2008 Diocesan Parish Life Conference

July 2-6, 2008

2008 Archdiocesan Clergy Symposium

July 21-25, 2008

2008 Diocesan Fall Gathering

October 10-12, 2008

More information to follow

2008 Northern California Diocesan Antiochian Women's Retreat

November 14-16, 2008

2009 Diocesan Clergy Seminar

February 9-13, 2009

More information to follow

Local Events

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May 2008