With the blessing of His Eminence KYRILL, Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, the annual Great-Lenten retreat for the diocese's clergy will be held at Holy Virgin Cathedral and the Old Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco from March 17 to 19, 2025.

During the pastoral retreat, the clergy of the Diocese will have the opportunity for common prayer and confession. Contemporary pastoral issues will be discussed, and all will receive the Sacred Mysteries of Christ.

The 35th session of the Synodal School of Liturgical Music is scheduled for July 13 to 26 at Holy Dormition Convent “Novo-Diveevo” in Nanuet, New York. The coming session promises an immersion in courses in Typicon, choir conducting, voice, Church Slavonic, church music history, liturgical performance practice, music theory, and sight-singing.

His Grace Theodosy Bishop of Seattle, Archpriest Alex Kotar and all the clergy, the members of the Church Parish Council, and parishioners of Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox in Seattle, WA, are adorning the chapel that has been constructed in the room where our beloved Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco reposed in the Lord on July 2nd, 1966. See the flyer below. The parish is collecting $45,000 for a large stained glass window in the High Place behind the Holy Table and iconography on the walls and ceiling. Please support this worthy project!